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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Universal Pictures
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, language and some drug references
Starring
Martin Lawrence,
Margaret Avery,
Michael Clarke Duncan,
Louis C.K.,
Mike Epps,
Mo'Nique,
Cedric the Entertainer,
and
James Earl Jones
Talk-show sensation RJ Stevens left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his "Team of Me" philosophy to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-TV-star fiancée and money to burn, there's no piece of the Hollywood dream RJ hasn't achieved. After his parents request that he come home for their 50th wedding anniversary, the TV host packs up his 10-year-old son and diva bride-to-be and heads back to Georgia. It's a chance to prove to his family that he's no longer the awkward kid they relentlessly picked on. At least, that's the plan...But when his crazy, lovable family calls him on his big-city attitude and challenges him at every turn, RJ is forced to take a hard look at the man he's become. He may be a superstar in L.A., but he's just one of the guys in Dry Springs as folks say "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins." (Universal Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Malcolm D. Lee
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Malcolm D. Lee
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| RELEASE DATE: |
Theatrical: February 8, 2008
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| RUNNING TIME: |
minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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75
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Turns out to be formulaic and broad but also skillfully paced and big-hearted, with a sharp cast of comics that makes the most of a sunny script.

70
Village Voice
Chuck Wilson
Although the big comic setups in Lee's script feel a bit forced--the director continually sets up moments of rapid-fire, barb-filled interplay among his accomplished cast.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Clark Collis
Mo'Nique is similarly given little opportunity to show off her indisputable comedic chops, though her freewheeling monologue during the closing credits hints at what might have been.

63
Chicago Tribune
Kelley L. Carter
Under normal circumstances, too many comics spoil the show.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Jason Anderson
More than sufficiently funny.

60
The New York Times
Matt Zoller Seitz
It?s a cut above other films of its type because every scene is packed with details like those pliers -- touches that suggest that the film?s writer and director, Malcolm D. Lee (?The Best Man?), is working overtime to smuggle life into formula.

58
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The film has a warmth and raucousness that's surprisingly disarming.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Be warned that what looks to be a family comedy pushes its PG-13 rating to the edge with blatant sexual references and creatively crude sexual metaphors.

50
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
It's not the unevenness of the comedy that kills Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins but the illegitimacy of the drama.

50
Variety
Justin Chang
An in-your-face double helping of fat jokes, crude slapstick, wacky Southern-black stereotypes and occasionally inspired improv.

50
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
At its best, Roscoe Jenkins is about the crushing influence of the past and one man?s attempts to free himself ? by hook, crook, or Hollywood ? from underneath it. At its worst, however, the movie is content to just explore the apparently infinite comic potential of dogs having sex, people getting sprayed by skunks, and men getting beaten up by overweight women.

50
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
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. Why, he'd discover what it's like to take pride, not just profit.

50
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
A few laughs and a lot of hyperbolic shtick make this a little better than formulaic before the standard-issue resolution.

50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
As Roscoe's parents, Margaret Avery and James Earl Jones emerge with drawers undropped and dignity intact.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
The cast's evident delight might be enough for some moviegoers, but with so much talent and so little modulation on offer, audiences subjected to the onslaught could reasonably expect a higher laughs-to-torture ratio.

50
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Lawrence's co-stars are more than ready to provide salty humor while creating a loose, almost improvised feel.

50
Baltimore Sun
Chris Kaltenbach
Imagine a Three Stooges short with a feel-good ending, and you get the idea.

40
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
A near continuous assault of clichés, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins doesn't become truly bothersome until its denouement, when it attempts to wring unearned sentiment from the inevitable, awkwardly staged family rapprochement.

38
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.

38
USA Today
Scott Bowles
Give this to Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins: The dogs can act.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Nothing the skunk does can begin to match the stench of this movie.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter Addiego
The effort is undermined with crass humor, mugging and slapstick.

25
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's not that you can't go home again. It's that you SHOULDN'T, at least not in a lowbrow Hollywood comedy, because your family will inevitably be lewd, crude, loud and obnoxious.


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