CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

misstikal29 This movie....how can i just describe it: EXCELLENT! You can watch it once and one more time....you can't get enough of it! The story of a man and woman, who are best friends....who don't know it that they are in love with each other? But both of them try to live their lives, with relationships, that never works...because they're made for each other! Dre get married...we don't know why....Syd wants to marry Kelby....everything's gonna crash!! The metaphor is unbelievable, but nothing special when you see it twice, but without that it's an incredible movie....I enjoyed it, and I do now ! If you have the opportunity to watch it, don't hesitate, you won't be disappointed!!

triple8 SPOILERS THROUGHOUT:Brown Sugar was better then I thought it would be, mainly due to the chemistry of the two leads. They have the kind of chemistry where you just feel how right the two characters are for each other from the beginning and you root for them through the whole movie.For a movie about hip hop, there didn't seem to be a lot of music. This is the kind of movie that non hip hop lovers can easily enjoy because the hip hop isn't overdone, they give you just enough but not so much where it overshadows the movie. This is also a movie that's refreshing in the natural way it progresses. The dialog is so down to earth to the point where some of the lines are spot on with certain things I've heard people say-almost verbatim. You kind of get the feeling, the writer knew how people who deal with the issues the movie characters grapple with here, actually speak in real life.In spite of the theme of hip hop I wouldn't call this a movie about hip hop. It's really about idealism. The two main characters have gone through life with a fierce love of hip hop and that love has shaped everything they've ever done. I think anyone who's had a deep passion for something will be able to relate and it doesn't matter if that passion is Hiphop, heavy metal, pop or something other then music-like movies. These individuals are fighting to hold onto the innocence of just loving something without any agenda and discovering, that growing up does not mean an end to idealism. It's as much a coming of age tale as a movie about hip hop.And it doesn't fall into any real genre either because it isn't a comedy(I have no idea how it got lumped into that category.) The movie wasn't perfect, it dragged at times and the end had a really unreal quality, unlike the rest of the picture but it was still a good movie.The cheating aspect disturbed me as it did other reviewers, but how it played out was not all that unrealistic. This movie has been compared to When Harry met Sally and I actually find this a bit more realistic, though I like Harry/Sally a bit more. Brown sugar wouldn't be half as good without the charisma of the two main performers and the supporting cast are great too. This movie's message is clearly not to let go of your dreams and never sell out. It's been done a million times before but the message happens to be an important one so who cares if it's done a million more times as long as it's done well? And it is here. My vote is 7.5 of 10.

Orridge88 I believe Brown Sugar is a movie that should and possibly will always be remembered. I like the movie since it displays the true meaning of hip-hop. Not only that but it shows how true friends may end up getting together. My comment may not sound clear since my mind is all jungled up. Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs played excellent roles in the movie along with Queen Latifah, Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe, and Mos Def. Another good thing about the movie promotes the Bronx!! Holla!!!!!! That's for the haters who stay hatin' on the BX!

bob the moo Dre and Sidney have grown up friends and matured through their shared love of hip hop music. Now in their late twenties, he is an executive of Millennium Records while she is the editor of XXL. Dre's marriage sparks deep feelings within Sidney, which she battles to control. However changes in both their lives in terms of love and the direction of their relationship with hip hop, brings about choices they both must make.Before this film had finished production I had spotted on imdb that artists such as Common, Talib Kweli and Mos Def were in this movie and I was looking forward to see it. I saw it today as my wife is a fan of Diggs and must say that I was left feeling slightly underwhelmed. As a romantic comedy it is surprisingly light on both romance and comedy. The tangled web of `do they love each other, don't they love each other' loses steam long before it reaches the end of the film and the prominence of cheating in the story is a turn off. It still sort of works but not as well or as compelling as in other films – the fact that both of the lovers get involved in marriage caused me to be less supportive of them becoming a couple (which is important for a rom-com to get right).In terms of laughs the film is pretty thin and it only got a few laughs out of me. It is all reasonably amiable but this doesn't make it funny. The best laughs came from minor support characters rather than the main story, which is far too busy talking about hip hop or looking sad over unfulfilled love.In terms of hip hop, I was expectant after the film opened with talking heads from many famous artists, including several whom I'll buy anything they release. However after this opening the music is only really referred to in a dull voice over by Lathan. The film does make good swipes at modern hip hop (particularly funny and barbed is The Hip Hop Dalmatians) but it is nowhere near at transferring the effect of the music as, say, 8 Mile or Slam were. The soundtrack is really lacking in strong joints and hip hop is only given the stage briefly when Mos Def performs at a show. Strange then that this film claims to be about hip hop as much as it is about romance.The cast are pretty good even though the material is not quite as good. Diggs is not given good dialogue and his constant hip hop talk doesn't always sound natural when he says it. Lathan is a lot more comfortable and is better, although again, she is held back by a depressingly over-sentimental voice over. The two together do have chemistry and it is a shame that the plot wasn't set up better to use this. Mos Def is the star of this film and it is a shame that he is only given a little screen time. He has the funniest scenes and when he is talking to Kelby about being a rap coach and, later, romancing Francine, he shows real astute comic touches in his performance. Likewise Latifah is good and about a million times better than she was in the woeful Brining Down The house – here the support role suits her.Overall I felt that his film didn't really succeed at anything it tried but was still watchable and quite enjoyable nonetheless. The romance was too confused by marriages etc to really work well and to get the audience behind it and the comedy never really arrived apart from a perfect performance by Mos Def. The whole hip hop thing meanwhile, could be viewed as under-served or simply a marketing gimmick depending on how cynical you are.