30 Days in Atlanta

Tittle: 30Days in Atlanta

Lead Role: Ayo Makun, Ramsey Noah

Actors: Rachel Oniga, RMD, Mercy Johnson, Ada Ameh, Desmond Elliot, Lynn Whitfield and Vivica Fox

Genre: Romantic Comedy

Year: 2014

      A production that gets you wondering who got all the characters together; multiple brilliant ideas. For one Ayo Makun plays a character whose personalty is out of this world and speaks nothing but truth....just like yours truly (hehehe).

Synopsis
Akpos ( Ayo Makun) all the way from Warri came to visit is cousin Richard (Ramsey Noah) an IT specialist who invited Akpos to a party where he won an all expense paid trip to Atlanta. Lets just say the unbelievable was created, a  movie one can assume is romance themed and a nicely packaged cliche but, brilliant mind choose to dice the characters into a full comedy plot with just enough romance added.
      Akpos and Richard heads to Atlanta for 30 days and when a full blown- no shame Warri hustler

goes to America, there's definitely bound to be trouble and ever flowing  comedy from the beginning of the movie to the end. The characters in the movie were all interesting, Ramsey Noah, Rachel Oniga,Richard Mofe- Damijo, Desmond Elliot, Mercy Johnson, Majid Michel and Juliet Ibrahim, Vivica Fox, Lynn Whitfield and more; all of this characters were great to watch and  they added their own worth into the movie.
       Ayo Makun a renowned and successful comedian who took the lead role didn't seem to rely much on impulse as the movie didn't have the impulse to try out or rely on its known idea but was a professional comedian and now professional actor; not even Chris Rock or Eddie Murphy could create a scene by scene comedy film, Nollywood has totally forgotten how to reach a quality standard and misconstrue a comedy movie as an act to showcase silliness and torture to viewers but thanks to 30 days in Atlanta team the bar has been raised.

      Personally, I don't have a favorite scene in this movies but I found Akpos mom (Ada Ameh....Love her!) visiting her son before leaving for Atlanta with a goat, a wacky-one- quarter bunch of plantain and a prayer sermon, "the complimentary scene" Akpos behavior when he rejected all complimentary food on the plane, he called the air hostess back and told her to give him everything he rejected plus everything everyone on the plane had (hahahaha) 'abeg arrange for me....abeg go arrange for me', I paid for it". In addition, he made statements like "their fada, oh I forget say no be Warri I dey, sorry na America we dey, their dad'; absolutely hilarious.

The producers might have added Romantic to the genre but this is a comedy film. It could have been disastrous if it was another all comedy film, and there's bound to be few glitches in such movies as its a risky business even if it had romance, drama but not 30 Days in Atlanta, it  and most of all narrating the life of some Africans in United States. I doubt if Lynn Whitfield knew she could take a role that made her cross language boundaries or that Ayo Makun could actually take a very serious role, and most of all how they ended up with a movie overcrowded with talented stars would end up being wonderful.
Although, it all seemed familiar but to date no one has or can do a better job with what Ayo Makun and his entire cast crew did in the movie and the making of the movie. The locations, the soundtrack, the editing works and best of all the final product of the movie.

If you ever never heard or seen a room full of ROARING laughter.....I experienced the feeling with 30Days in Atlanta...'letoyinspeak.com"

FYI....30days in Atlanta is currently showing in theatre but for my American family....here is a trailer and will keep you in the loop once the video is available
      On a personally, I don't watch comedy movies, all I know is....this is the best I have seen. So amongst other things, I love this movie and for that...

Rating 10/10