Juwanna Mann (2002)

I enjoyed the movie very much. Nice story, good actors, and the music is excellent! That's all folks!!! I recommend it to all of you. Go see it :-)

Fmovies: I was going to rent this one because the previews did look funny. And I love Kevin Polack. Well, it was on cable so I saved a few bucks. But, hey!!! It was funny! Entertaining! Cute! And worth the 90 minutes. Why are so many amateurs critical of films like this - on an artistic level?? And why take it personally about what you all "the stereotyping" of women basketball players? I thought the film portrayed plenty of feminine, attractive characters on that team. Again...lighten up people. You WILL laugh! If you need more reality, watch the nightly news!

JUWANNA MANN goes a long way towards proving what I have said for years: That a film can overcome most anything if you care about the characters. In fact JUWANNA MANN is better than THE ENGLISH PATIENT, because in watching that film I was not concerned with what happened, was not engaged emotionally by the events in that story. Ergo, JUWANNA MANN is a better film, at least to me, than THE ENGLISH PATIENT. I'm not sure what to think about that, but it makes sense on some level.

I caught this movie on cable one day, and figured it would be a painful retread of TOOTSIE, but after a while I couldn't turn it off. It is about a pro-basketball player who crosses the line and is booted out of the league, his only recourse being to dress like a woman and play in the WNBA. Not exactly high art. However, the lead character, played by Miguel A. Nunez Jr., is so likable and honest I was amazed with his performance. He puts on a wig and attacks the role with such gusto I couldn't help but take notice; there are also more subtle things that he does that help the film along. Nunez is the the lynch-pin holding the film together. The supporting cast is also quite good: the always reliable Kevin Pollak, the lovely Vivica A. Fox, Tommy Davidson, etc.

The film was also funny...I laughed which does not happen often, not because I am a humorless miser (entirely), but because most films don't strike me as amusing. Don't get me wrong, JUWANNA MANN has it's share of crude humor and a scene involving a traffic stop that goes on too long, but it does not cripple the film, if adds nothing to it. The damn movie is heartwarming, yeah, you heard me...heartwarming! I've never used that term to describe a movie before, but it is. The ending may be formulaic, but for some reason I forgave the film, perhaps because I wanted the characters to be happy. It was certainly a great surprise to find a film at random, that I had never heard of before, and have it turn out to be a small gem. It does not happen enough, but if other film makers would pay attention to a movie like JUWANNA MANN, there just might be a few more. 7/10.

Juwanna Mann fmovies. Juwanna Mann isn't a horrible movie just a by the numbers comedy. The film has the same jokes that most gender benders comedy's do which get tired after a while. Miguel A .Nunez does good carrying the movie by himself but Tommy Davidson and Kim Wayans steal every scene their in. Ginuwine does a great acting job in his first movie and Mrs.Fox is good as always. While the jokes in the gilm are the same overall the film is good and has a nice message. If Warener had a soundtrack to back the film then it would have been better but I think with out a SDTK Warner may have a sleeper hit on their hands.

Although there were a couple of unbelievable things in the movie I was pleasently surprised by this laugh fest. Mr. Miguel A. Núñez Jr. does a brilliant job of immatating a woman very convincingly. I was very glad I changed my mind and decided to watch it.

I should mention that when I saw the ads for this movie I thought it had to be the "stupedist" movie ever made. So I refused to watch it. One evening, when there was nothing on to my liking, I saw Juwanna Mann was playing so I watched it b/c I could always turn the TV off...

I started laughing out loud and enjoying it more and more. The movie, and Mr. Núñez's acting, was able to turn me around and I had a good time watching this fun movie. 9/10

-Zafoid

Watching Juwanna Mann kind of reminded me of the 1993 Mrs. Doubtfire film about a man dressing as and acting like a woman. The way Miguel A. Nunez made this person want to play basketball was really hilarious a amusing. Kevin Pollack as his agent was really a powerful spot since only he knew the difference between Juwanna and Jamal Jeffries. I liked the way Jamal told him "You're a feminine Jerry Maguire" Vivica Fox was so hot and perfect as Michele Langsford who at the end did accept Jamal as well as Juwanna. They should try to shoot more films about men dressing up as women just like Dustin Hoffman did in Tootsie an Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire.