To me, this movie is perfection.

Just perfect...

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

One of my favorite movies. With so many speaking negatively, I didn't think there would have been such beautiful cinematography and a funny, yet realistic story line. I think some naysayers have their own personal reasons, hang-ups, biases and insecurities as to why they strongly dislike this movie. I could understand not loving it as much as I do, but there is nothing about the movie that deserves less than a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10. Paula Patton, Laz Alonzo and Loretta Devine nailed their roles along with almost all of the remaining cast members. Overall this movie is just great fun for any moviegoer and has become a choice pick for girls- night- out movie evening at home.

it happens once in a while, a group of like-minded people who needed an editor get together and swoon over each other's lines, shots, you name it; starts off from a very shaky footing, i,e, lets do the vineyard, the yacht, we break into french, we are fabulously wealthy on and on and on, except like the wiz and ease on down the road we'll make everyone black instead of white; it gets worse with stilted dialog trying to find some meat on the bones of the non=starting plot; how many times can you here the son tell his mother that he loves her, respects her, honors her, reveres her (zzzzz) except she is threatened by the riches and yachts and breaking into french and starts wrecking things; the other part of this is how ridiculous it is for IMDb to ins is on 10 lines of copy; the plot isnn't worth it and has been covered already, and when a movie is this bad you really don't need line after line telling you why

Two worlds collide when compulsive, suave and resigned to solitude uptown girl Sabrina Watson (Paula Patton) runs over an up-and-coming businessman deriving from Bronx Jason Taylor (Laz Alonso). The chance connection redefines them both and within a blink of an eye they have set a wedding date aiming to finalise their marriage. The biggest obstacle being the conflicting family backgrounds, which seem set to topple the marriage. Mr Watson (Brian Stokes Mitchell) and Mrs Watson (Angela Bassett) were born into riches and high class lifestyle, to the extent that despite her skin colour Mrs Watson stems from a family of former slave owners. Meanwhile the widow Mrs Taylor (Loretta Devine), a police clerk, is a possessive mother with very traditional standpoints and a dismissive attitude towards any foreign elements to her family. When family secrets are revealed and incompatible world views interact one weekend on Martha's Vineyard the wedding seems set to burn...It comes somewhat of a surprise that a romantic comedy with subtexts set in African-American culture seems to be such a novelty, exposing how limited the access of this key demographic has to cinema. Coming off as a black "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", it features rich cultural connotations, centred around the key plot of 'jumping the broom', a traditional form of entering into marriage, derived from the slavery period, when blacks were forbidden to formally marry, hence resorting to African customs. This beautiful and meaningful tradition has seemingly been ridiculed as backward by upper class African Americans (which I must say is a somewhat gut-wrenching self-degrading of their rich culture). And as such this conflict should and could have been the centre of focus for the plot, which unfortunately derails from the substantial comedy into more melodramatic subplots. With only a mildly funny comedic backdrop and the social issues mostly on a back-burner, hinted and then disregarded, the main causes for watching "Jumping the Broom" is the somewhat novel context and the absolutely wicked performances by both matrons: Devine and Bassett. Most other actors deal with the story with typical African-American over-exuberance, but the two queens are dastardly perfection as they summarily head towards total conflict.

I actually loved this movie. Maybe it was the cold weather after work or the music in the movie, but it appealed to me. The cast with Angela Bassett and some gorgeous looking individuals added to the charm of the movie. I must agree that the French speaking was one of the most bizarre i ever heard being french speaking from Cameroon. i could hardly make up what was being said and it sounded as if it was added in the editing phase. Anyway... The story is also a light one but reel. It depicts the mother who will never finds any woman good enough to be her daughter-in-law, the super-protective mother who does not want her child to grow. it also showcases the difference in behaviour, likings... between 2 different socio economical classes of individuals. in between there are a lot of family secrets that get revealed. That is great and presented in crescendo. One is always bent towards finding out what is exactly going on. The music chosen in the movie is just great, and would bring to romance any person you are courting. And of course, weddings are always emotional for me, and T.D Jakes adds realism to the act. All in one, if you have to seduce someone after trying for some time without success, try this movie, it might just work out.