Remaking a 50-year-old Alec Guinness chestnut as a comedy vehicle for Queen Latifah isn't such a bad idea, but cluttering it up with goofy action sequences instead of relying entirely on Latifah's outsized charisma most certainly is. Shy, reserved New Orleans churchgoer Georgia Mae Byrd (Latifah) has always lived life on the sidelines. She keeps her thoughts to herself and her dreams like one day traveling to the Czech Republic and dining at the table of the Grandhotel Pupp's master Chef Didier (Gerard Depardieu), or hooking up with Sean Matthews (LL Cool J), Georgia's sexy coworker at Kragen's Department Store safely tucked away in a scrapbook she's po...
Released:
2006
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
112 mins