The Tiger Rising Review: Queen Latifah Exec Produces Her Worst Movie To Date
Dennis Quaid (The Day After Tomorrow) parachutes into The Tiger Risingdoing a full-on Joe Exotic impression, as the opening act plays like the Tiger King, Disney Channel Original Movie. Queen Latifah is sixty percent executive producer and forty percent magical black stereotype, virtually guaranteeing diminishing returns, scene after scene after scene. Based on the 2001 book of the same name byKate DiCamillo, this middle school drama doesn’t get off the ground before falling flat on its face. Overwrought, overacted, and over the top at every turn, The Tiger Rising has one thing going for it; a script that bleeds ridiculous lines like, “That’s how real men do business. In tigers.” and “That’s right, real men do business in tigers.”
The Kentucky Star Motel is the new home of Robert Horton (Sam Tremmell) and Rob Horton Jr. (Christian Convery) After losing his wife, Robert falls on hard times and Rob Jr. is so stricken with grief it physically manifests itself in a rash that gets him bullied out of school. Enter Sistine Bailey (Madalen Mills), the new girl from Philadelphia doing herself no favors by declaring that everyone in the south is ignorant. The two outsiders band together and learn that the boss of the Kentucky Star Motel, Beauchamp (Quaid) is keeping a tiger on the outskirts of the property. Beauchamp grants Rob Jr. access to the tiger and he is faced with feeding it or freeing it. Queen Latifah (The Equalizer) plays Willie May, the maid at the motel whose entire purpose in the film is to predict the future, give nonsensical advice, and comfort the white characters. As if it wasn’t laid on thick enough, she makes a point to say she’s not a prophet, and ironically it's the only time she doesn’t act like one in the
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