review for Chat Room on AllMovie

Chat Room (2002)
by Buzz McClain review

Crude, profane, and predictable, Chat Room is not without its moments of mirth. But to get to them one must tolerate the usual tripe that passes for humor in urban comedies: scenes that demean women and the handicapped, crude jokes about fat people, and punch lines that rely on profanity instead of cleverness. But the natural-born misogynists in the audience will find the extended montage of erratic blind dates somewhat funny, but only because the women in the cast give it their best. The woman who wears the ukulele on her head -- hey, it could happen -- and the girl from the hood are the funniest. Production values are a notch or two higher than most low-budget urban offerings. If you have to rent an urban comedy, you could do a lot worse than Chat Room.