Fluentiama Perfect cast and a good story

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Calum Hutton It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

richard.fuller1 The jokes used in the advertisements were unbelievably juvenile.In one, Flip is sitting at the breakfast table with the kids and Gladys Knight as his wife, had set some food on the table and was walking away and Flip said, "you devil, you," as she walked away.Another one, they were camping in the living room or something, they were all in sleeping bags, and Flip yells out, "who put the lock on your mother's sleeping bag?" I don't know if it was supposed to be romantic, but it was very immature for a man with three kids to behave like this.When Della Reese joined the show, she was as an antagonist to Flip, her son-in-law, and she would say, "What happened? Did you wake up on the wrong side of your cage?" I didn't watch the show based on these promos alone. It was enough to drive anyone away.If anyone liked it, I'm glad for them.

John Wayne Peel I cannot believe that anyone has anything good to say about this show. It was BEYOND bad. Just seeing Gladys Knight trying to act is painful enough (I can't understand why anyone who can sing with such feeling can be such a horrific actor but...) I remember when this show debuted. it was clear that CBS was trying to make it's own Cosby Show clone and even the COs himself mentioned how he felt hurt by his old friend Flip Wilson doing this to him. The writing was pitiful, the acting was from bad to worse and there is nothing memorable (in a good way) about this misfire. Be glad it isn't on any video format and pray it stays that way.

Syl I remember when CBS and ABC had to have their answer to the huge success of the Cosby Show. CBS brought Flip Wilson and Gladys Knight as a middle class African American show living in an apartment with children played by Jaleel White who became better known as super nerd, Urkel on Family Matters and Kristoff St. John who is on Young and the Restless as Neil Winters. The show also included the wonderful Della Reese. The cast was first rate but the writing was forgettable at best. I don't recall much except that the network was trying to cash in on Cosby's success. Either way, the first rate cast moved on to better themselves.

athomas1 This show wasn't so bad, as the previous reviewer would let you believe, but come on, it was going up against The Cosby Show. I liked it because it focused on more than just the kids in the show and some of the episodes were pretty darn funny.