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75Turns 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.
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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.
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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.
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Under normal circumstances, too many comics spoil the show.
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More than sufficiently funny.
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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.
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58The film has a warmth and raucousness that's surprisingly disarming.
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50The 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.
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50Lawrence's co-stars are more than ready to provide salty humor while creating a loose, almost improvised feel.
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50As Roscoe's parents, Margaret Avery and James Earl Jones emerge with drawers undropped and dignity intact.
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50It's not the unevenness of the comedy that kills Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins but the illegitimacy of the drama.
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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.
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50Be 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.
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50Imagine a Three Stooges short with a feel-good ending, and you get the idea.
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50An in-your-face double helping of fat jokes, crude slapstick, wacky Southern-black stereotypes and occasionally inspired improv.
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50A 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.
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50A few laughs and a lot of hyperbolic shtick make this a little better than formulaic before the standard-issue resolution.
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40A 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.
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38Give this to Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins: The dogs can act.
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38This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.
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25Nothing the skunk does can begin to match the stench of this movie.
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25The effort is undermined with crass humor, mugging and slapstick.
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25It'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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