House Party
1990, R, 100 min.
Directed by Reginald Hudlin, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Christopher Reid, Christopher Martin, Robin Harris, Tisha Campbell, A.J. Johnson, Martin Lawrence.

The Hudlin brothers filmmaking team and the jokester duo Kid ’n’ Play all broke out of the pack with this “urban” teen comedy that spawned a couple of sequels that never lived up to the original’s fresh playfulness and spontaneity. This is the only House Party that counts.

This article appears in June 16 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.