Originally, I thought that the second one was worthless and without any merit...time, however, has surprisingly been kind to it. It's not a classic, but there's actually a lot of funny stuff in it. Love Pinkie. Make Epps had his moments ("Fat bytches need love too craig"; "Little Debbie got a new cupcake comin' out, it's a bad mutha fukka"....
) Love his uncle and his thot-aunt. Witherspoon is always class. Even that white boy was funny.
Third one was trash though.
In regards to Tucker, if his heart isn't in it, I wouldn't want him back.
Ice Cube is probably one of the more underrated black filmmakers. Friday and Barbershop alone place him in a certain tier. He's more subtle than given credit for.