'The honeymooners': two best friends with get-rich-quick scheme bring laughs to the big screen in remake of.(Movie review)

Jet | June 13, 2005| | Copyright

Cedric the Entertainer and Mike Epps have won rave reviews from comedy fans across the nation.

Now, the duo pairs up to play best friends who resort to various get-rich-quick schemes in the big screen adaptation of the hit 1950s comedy The Honeymooners.

In the movie, Cedric the Entertainer is New York bus driver Ralph Kramden, a role immortalized on the small screen by Jackie Gleason. Kramden dreams and dreams of being rich and hatches one bizarre money-making scheme after another. He is accompanied in the schemes by his neighbor and best friend, Ed Norton (Mike Epps).

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