Nick Cannon...

I just saw a commercial today for a straight to TV movie produced by VH1 called Drumline:  A New Beat. As some of you know, the 2002 film Drumline is on my list of worst films I have reviewed despite having a surprisingly high 82% on RottenTomatoes. So, you probably wonder why I’m wasting my time writing about this made for TV sequel. The answer:  because I think it’s hilariously sad.

Almost every movie that comes out in theaters these days is based on a book. Also, everyone knows that any movie which makes its budget back will most likely get a green-lit sequel. Furthermore, anything (no matter how amazing or sacred) is viable to be remade and, if they (hollywood execs) don’t want to remake something, they will just reboot an old franchise (e.g. Ghostbusters). It’s sad how unoriginal everything seems to be these days. Now, even really bad films are being given sequels? I guess the sequels of bad films are banished to TV movies instead of given a wide release in theaters. 

Nick Cannon returns for this sequel which goes to show that he literally has nothing better to do now that he is newly single following his divorce from the much older Mariah Carey. Maybe he just needs the money since he no longer as two incomes in the house. Maybe his “Whose Line is it Anyway” ripoff “Wild’N Out With Nick Cannon” isn’t making him as relevant as he wants to be. Maybe he just wants to do duck-face some more and act “hood” while pretending (very poorly) to play a marching snare drum. It can’t be that his Drumline character, Devon Miles, is so interesting and challenging to play that he wants to step back into those shoes to explore the intricacies of the character’s motivations. It’s more likely that he hasn’t gotten a role in a movie that wasn’t just on TV since 2009. Maybe he’s a better actor than I give him credit for, though, because he seems to have some people believing that he can act... and that takes some acting.

That’s all for now...