Now available on DVD is Who Made The Potato Salad? The film features an all star cast of African-American talent. Jaleel White, who is best known for his role as Steve Urkel on Family Matters stars as Michael. Michael is a young police officer who is in love with his beautiful girl friend Ashley. After he proposes, he has to meet her family. Michael and Ashley soon meet Ashley’s very boisterous and stereotypical ghetto family. Her father, portrayed by character actor Clifton Powell has a very short fuse and curses quite often. He is upset that his daughter has brought home a “pig” and says he even would have preferred a gangsta rapper. De Ray Davis (Wild N Out) stars in the film as Ashley’s super hood brother. The family members curse at the drop of a hat even when young children are present. Ashley and her mother seem to be the quiet reserved ones in the family.

There is nothing funny about Who Made The Potato Salad in my opinion? It’s a sad commentary on black America and is equivalent to a modern day blaxpoitation film. It seems that it aims to be similar to movies like Friday, which was a hilarious movie, but Who Made The Potatoe Salad? falls far short. It’s a film about a young black man with a respectable career who is taunted and teased by his fiancés ignorant family about his career choice—a joke which gets stale real quick.

The film really does include an all star cast which includes Ella Joyce, Tiny Lister, Reynaldo Rey, with a special appearance by Eddie Griffin.

I’m sure there are some people out there who will find this film hilarious and will even feel like it was made about their family. I for one couldn’t relate–or bring myself to laugh at this atrocity.

Synopsis

WHO MADE THE POTATOE SALAD? Street Date: 11/7/06

As the holiday season approaches, it’s a time for celebrating, reuniting with loved ones around big family dinners and of course the most feared event of all…meeting the in-laws! Comedian Eddie Griffin asks all the wrong questions in Who Made the Potatoe Salad?, the hilarious urban version of “Meet the Parents” debuting on DVD November 7, 2006 from Key Video, a division of Fox Home Entertainment. When a young police officer who has just proposed to his girlfriend, goes to meet her family to announce their engagement – he realizes he may be marrying into more than he can handle! Highlighted with a scene-stealing performance by funnyman Griffin (Date Movie, Undercover Brother, Scary Movie 3) as the girlfriend’s prison inmate ex-boyfriend and featuring an all-star supporting cast including Jaleel White (Dreamgirls, “Family Matters”), Clifton Powell (Ray, Next Friday, Woman Thou Art Loosed), and DeRay Davis (Scary Movie 4, Barbershop), Who Made the Potatoe Salad? delivers gut-busting performances in an outrageous comedy that mixes romance, an eccentric family and a nervous cop that dishes out big laughs! If you thought your family was dysfunctional, come spend the holidays with this one!