( EW.com ) -- `` That was some melodramatic s -- - ! '' So says Quentin , the bachelor troublemaker played by Terrence Howard in `` The Best Man Holiday . '' He 's talking about one of the film 's many heated , if not hysterical , fights , but he might be describing the movie as a whole . Back in 1999 `` The Best Man '' was an outrageously fresh comedy of love and backbiting , and not just because it marked Hollywood 's belated discovery that characters could be upscale and African-American at the same time . EW : Box office preview - 'The Best Man Holiday ' wo n't best 'Thor ' The movie had wit , verve , spark , and surprise . But writer-director Malcolm D. Lee should n't have waited 14 years to do a sequel . `` The Best Man Holiday '' reunites the characters for a Christmas-weekend house party , and what ensues is like a better-written Tyler Perry movie : too many life crises rooted in too much recycled backstory . The actors are winning , especially Taye Diggs as the now-struggling Harper , Regina Hall as the ex-stripper Candace , and the great Morris Chestnut as football star Lance . But `` The Best Man Holiday '' is an eggnog that 's sticky-sweet and heavy at the same time . Grade : B- . See the original story at EW.com . CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
The film is a sequel to 1999 's ` ` The Best Man '' It follows the characters at a big house party . He says the ` ` actors are good ''