How To Be A Player

It's no wonder that How To Be A Player comes across as a corny and exhaustively offensive VH1 music video--its star "player," Bill Bellamy, is an MTV VJ, its director is a music video maker, and the soundtrack is one of Def Jam's latest creations. While super-smooth womanizer Dray teaches his cohorts "how to be a player," his feisty man-hating sister Jenny sets out to bust his playboy cover when she finds his little black electronic fax file and invites his parade of bedmates to the same party. (A player's real challenge is to see--and have--many women at once, each believing she is the only girlfriend.) A completely one-dimensional movie with insulting male-female stereotypes, static sex scenes, and canned urban bad-boy/bad-girl dialogue which is so cliched that the characters repeatedly sound like broken CDs, this lame effort offers not a shred of quality entertainment, nor any hope for good gender relations. Not recommended. (A. Glover)