Martin Lawrence,
Margaret Avery,
Joy Bryant,
Louis C.K.,
Michael Clarke Duncan
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A single father who has just found success as the host of an outrageous television talk show begins to question his path in life when he returns home to attend his parents' 50th wedding anniversary pa... read more
Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee
Release Date: February 8, 2008
Keywords:
family,
funny,
martin lawrence,
james earl,
earl jones,
mike epps,
Martin Lawrence ,
Mike Epps ,
James Earl Jones,
Michael Clarke Duncan
DVD Release Date: June 17, 2008
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June 14, 2011Going home is no vacation.
The movie is funny and it's a nice family film. The story was nice and simple. Nice cast of actors and all were in sync which was a plus. Good movie to watch on TV or Rent.
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June 27, 2009Predictable. Guy wearing white suit drinking beetroot juice. Hmmm..wonder what might happen. Don't even start me on the "evil" girlfriemd. (We know she's evil because she doesn't want to "ruin" her figure having kids, and doesn't enjoy being around her partners quite uncouth... read more
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November 9, 2008Martin Lawrence is brilliant and bloody hilarious in this sensational funniest film of the black family. Great cast including the legendary James Earl Jones and the beautiful Nicole Ari Parker, but nobody's quite as good, or as funny as Martin Lawrence himself. But I dislike Mo'N... read more
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March 14, 2008Sorry to say very dissapointing, And Pay$9.00 to see it. Oh man its a wait till the $1.50 theather has it.
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February 12, 2008This movie was good. Slapstick and humor are the main pipelines of this movie. See this if you want to get into the Roscoe Jenkins family pipeline of comedy. James Earl Jones comes out fo retirement for this one. It's all good.
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April 29, 2010This film wasn't all that funny, but the scehs that were funny, were Hysterical, and Outrageous. This is Lawerence doing his Bawdy Humor that got him famous. Worth atleast One watch.
It isn't all sterotypical, and one-liners that pierce many egos, but it is all the fast paced... read more -
April 6, 2008fb1025970122A very generic family reunion comedy, but the hilarious cast raises the laugh level to very high and although the story is run of the mill it is still a nice one to rent and watch on a sunday afternoon. A nice one as long as everyone is over 13!
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February 7, 2008This film is, how you say, a hot mess of broad slapstick and heavyhanded morals.
Critic Reviews
February 22, 2008
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
February 11, 2008
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
This is a loud, stupid, cliché-riddled mess.
February 8, 2008
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
A talented comedian, Lawrence has leaned all too easily on formula for his successful films. Imagine if he would test his flair against original and fresh premises, instead of the tried and trite. Full Review
February 8, 2008
Scott Bowles, USA Today
There's little to distinguish this oddly mean-spirited comedy. Full Review
February 8, 2008
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins reinforces the sense that movies are not about real life but about other movies. Full Review
February 8, 2008
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle
The message - stay true to your roots - is solid, and [director] Lee gives his outstanding comic cast some sharp one-liners, but he undermines the effort with crass humor, mugging and slapstick. Full Review
February 8, 2008
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Hollywood, which spent most of the last century ignoring the black family, seems determined to spend most of this one showing the same black family. Over and over. Full Review
February 8, 2008
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Possible signs of the apocalypse: a rain of fire, return of the Messiah, my enjoy ing a Martin Lawrence comedy. Full Review
February 8, 2008
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
It's a cut above other films of its type because every scene is packed with...touches that suggest that the filmâ(TM)s writer and director, Malcolm D. Lee, is working overtime to smuggle life into for... Full Review
February 8, 2008
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Spiking sentimental family values with crude hilarity isn't the recipe for an award winner. Full Review
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