Friday...A Pure Comedy

After thinking long and hard I decided to do my second artifact analysis paper on the movie Friday. It is one of my favorite comedies so I decided to approach this film under the guidelines of generic criticism. More specifically, I want to critique this film using the option of generic application. First off, I have identified the movie as a comedy. Comedy film is a genre in which the main emphasis is humor. The events that take place in these types of films are often unrealistic, and are not taken seriously. Also, comedies typically have happy endings. In this film, the main character Craig, played by rapper Ice Cube is fired on his day off for allegedly stealing boxes. His father tells him to go out and look for a job, but instead he sits on his front porch all day with his best friend Smokey, a pothead. Smokey gets Craig involved in an altercation where both of them end having to pay Big Worm back his money for smoking the marijuana that Smokey is supposed to sell. Along the way, the two have run ins with the neighborhood bully, Deebo, Craig's crazy ghetto girlfriend, and the neighborhood crackhead Ezell. At the end Big Worm's henchmen perform a drive-by shooting when Craig and Smokey fail to pay back the money, and Craig ends up beating up Deebo. In my opinion, this film is one of the funniest of all the comedies in its genre. The events are hilarious and keep the audience laughing on the edge of their seat.