I'm offended that the makers of "Honey" think I've never seen a movie before. At least, I assume that's why they thought
they could get away with making a film consisting of nothing but clichés, old plot devices and stock characters. If I really hadn't ever seen a movie before -- if I were truly a newcomer to the medium of film, still dazzled by the notion that pictures can move and talk -- then I'm sure I would find "Honey" perfectly enjoyable. But I HAVE seen movies before. I've seen a lot of movies. And so "Honey" is just irritating and stupid. "Honey" and I did not get along. "Honey" and I are not friends. "Honey" is about a New York City girl named Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) who works days in a record store, nights at a dance club, and teaches hip-hop at the community center somewhere in between. Like Mariah Carey's character in "Glitter" (a film only barely worse than this one), Honey keeps getting told by everyone how talented a dancer she is, like maybe two or three times in every scene, even though she's not any better than the dancers around her. In fact, she's often worse, especially compared to the kids in her hip-hop class, like young thug-in-training Benny (played by someone called, I assume as a joke, "Lil' Romeo") and his little brother Raymond (Zachary Isaiah Williams -- NOT Raven Simone, the little girl from the later years of "The Cosby Show," though he does look like her).
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