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First Sunday

Mixed or average reviews
Based on 21 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Crime
Written by: David E. Talbert
Directed by: David E. Talbert
Release Date:
Theatrical: January 11, 2008
DVD: May 6, 2008
Running Time: 96 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: PG-13 for language, some sexual humor, and brief drug references
Starring Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Loretta Devine, Tracy Morgan, Keith David, Regina Hall, Malinda Williams, and Chi McBride
In this hilarious comedy, Durell and LeeJohn are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for. (Screen Gems)
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What The Critics Said
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ReelViews James Berardinelli
The movie as a whole is pleasant, generally satisfying, and has a heart as big as its funny bone. For an early January movie, this is sometimes as good as it gets.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Nick Pinkerton
At first, the movie is over-anxious--trying too hard to squeeze out the laughs, pump up the soundtrack, ingratiate itself with the audience--and the straining is abrasive. But once Talbert gets distracted by keeping the plot clunking along, the comedy eases into relaxed sideline banter.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Jessica Reaves
The movie’s total lack of focus and its unimpressive script should render it totally unwatchable. Weirdly, that doesn’t quite happen. There’s something endearing about these characters.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan are the nominal stars of First Sunday, but it's Katt Williams who steals the show in this by turns trite and mildly amusing B-comedy.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
First Sunday sometimes feels more like a script read-through than like an actual movie, but its warmth is likely to carry you through the stretches of cliché and tedium.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
A corny yet unexpectedly moving scene in which Morgan is moved to tears by Loretta Devine's simple kindness helps make the film's shift into inspirational drama far more palatable than it really has any right to be.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
This heist comedy has a hackneyed introduction, and its feel-good ending lacks credibility, but the big, funny chunk in the middle marks writer-director-producer David E. Talbert as a talent to watch.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
The movie is so confused about itself that it comes across as toneless, a bunch of characters wandering around in a story no one is controlling.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Though Ice Cube and Morgan should make an ideal team, neither seems particularly comfortable grappling with Talbert's amateurish script. Most of the laughs, in fact, come from the strong supporting cast, led by a high-energy Williams and the unflappable Devine.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
The second half of the film is much funnier and warmer than the first, but the movie is still difficult to recommend.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty
If Tyler Perry ever wanted to turn "Dog Day Afternoon" into a treacly after-school special, it would probably end up looking a lot like this.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
First Sunday is simply a case of wasting gifted performers on material that feels slapped together and unshaped.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Tyler Perry has already been here and done that to such a degree that this particular cinematic field should now be plowed under and salted so that nothing might grow thereupon forevermore. Amen.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
It plods along at a sluggard's pace through a weak premise with crude execution and even cruder characters to arrive at an unearned sentimental ending.
Read Full Review >Variety Brian Lowry
A near-claustrophobic comedy that manages to be both predictable and preachy. Solid actors in supporting roles offer minor redemption.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A slack combination of faith-based inspiration and broad 'hood comedy.
Read Full Review >USA Today Claudia Puig
A misguided attempt at comedy that needs to go last on anyone's list of movie options.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
The problems with First Sunday extend well beyond the hokey premise and predictable performances to the fundamentals of script, direction and tone.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Drawing comparisons to "The Wire" may be unfair, but taken on its own, this anemic vehicle for Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan to mug and jive through is just weak, weak stuff.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 5.8 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
