i really and really hate this movie . i buy it base on my love for john singleton past film like boyz n the hood and rosewood and high learning . these be great film that i felt have think put into them plus have a social commentary that be valid at the time of these film release . baby boy not only lack a conscious and it also lack the realism that john singleton earlier movie have . i could say that i do not know why john singleton make this film but i understand all too well . when john singleton make high learning and it receive vitriolic review from pseudo intellectual charlatan that label every film that dealt with issue race a propaganda . the rest of the mass just sleep on it or allow clownish so call hip hop ragazines like jive . oops i mean vibe magazine to persuade their opinion . so i understand why he would make brainless mtv style fodder like 2 fast 2 furious and illegal tender and baby boy . i believe he would have still make movie of substance like high learning if high learning be universally accept ( with all it flaw ) and not universally pan . the whole story of the film revolve around jody ( tyrese gibson ) and his problem in his life revolve his mother new boyfriend melvin ( ving rhames ) and his baby mother yvette ( taraji p. henson ) and his day to day struggle around make end meet with his partner sweetpea ( omar gooding ) . tyrese do a decent job a jody but the character be flat out despicable . now let look at the character of the main people in this film . tyrese a jody represent irresponsible idiot that cheat on his woman and have another baby mother by the name of peanut ( tamara leseon bass ) . he still live with his mother and seem to think that be cool for a man his age to do that . he cheat on his woman and treat her like dirt . he be basically the sick caricature that follywood promote a the true definition of black manhood . a. j. johnson a juanita represent a mother that dress like a malibu hooker and try to look cool at her age . she never push jody to do anything with his life and get into a relationship with a convict that grow weed in her garden and have no job . taraji p henson a yvette represent a very naive young woman that sense that jody be cheat on her and still stick with him . she be give to fit of rage for the most simple thing and never talk to jody with respect period . ving rhames a melvin represent stupid and psychotic former criminal that brag about his past misdeed a if that be cool . he grow weed in his girlfriend backyard and allow jody to take the blame . he mumble nonsense about bread and butter and have the nerve to wonder why jody doesn not like him to date his mother . hell and i would have let hannibal lecter date my mother over this fool any day . omar gooding a sweatpea represent a numbskull that curse out the same girlfriend and her mother that allow his stupid a to stay with them when he have no place to go . he have no conscious and seem to do thing out of impulse not logic . now tell me and be these the people you want to spend two hour of your life with . tyrese and snoop dogg be the most convincing of character in this movie . and to say that cuba gooding jr cousin cant act be the least of his problem . it not like ving rhames and a. j. johnson and taraji p henson cant act but their character be underdeveloped and poorly write shouting and argument turn into sexual situation and the most asinine scene in the movie have to be when jody backhand yvette after she punch him . he take her to the room and proceeds to give her funnylinguis . wtf . that scene be still a head scratcher till this day . i will admit that i laugh at the scene where jody and sweetpea beat the hell out of a bunch of teenage punk that jump jody earlier but the laughter turn to disgust as soon a sweetpea pull out his belt and start whip the final victim for show no fear . closing comment represent baby boy be a mess and will set black cinema back a couple of year . nobody with a conscious exist in baby boy . nobody of sound mind exist in baby boy . boyz n the hood have furious ( laurence fisburne ) to add insight to that film . where be his equivalent in baby boy . nowhere to be find . no insight go into this film . nobody with a conscious exists in baby boy . just a bunch of despicable and ignorant caricature . if you want see good movie from john singleton see his early work like the movie i mention earlier in this review and forget that this overtly preachy joke exists if you can .