B.A.P.S (1997)

All April long is AWKWARD LAUGHTER 2: THE FLOP in which we examine comedies that were not very commercially successful in their day and check in to see how they hold up many years later. This is a month of what many would call underrated cult classics and today’s discussion embodies that pretty well. We discuss a commercial disaster whose life on basic cable integrated itself into a classic black & gay cult film status. Of course we’re talking about Robert Townsend’s 1997 comedy “B.A.P.S” starring Halle Berry, Natalie Desselle, an incredibly happy looking Martin Landau and Ian Richardson. There is actually some heart and spirit in this film that could definitely find an emotional connection but then there’s everything else. This half-baked “plot” gets weirdly deflated. It’s a mess but we hang on to what little joy it can provide even if it doesn’t seem to be trying very hard. All that nephew had to do was nothing. Literally nothing.

 

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