Lottery Ticket (2010)
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Reviews Counted: 78
Fresh: 27 | Rotten: 51
There's a worthwhile message at the heart of Lottery Ticket, but it's buried under stale humor, tired stereotypes, and obvious clichés.
Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 12
There's a worthwhile message at the heart of Lottery Ticket, but it's buried under stale humor, tired stereotypes, and obvious clichés.
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Movie Info
A kid from the projects scores the jackpot in the lottery and fights to protect his ticket over the course of a treacherous holiday weekend in this all-star comedy featuring Ice Cube, Charlie Murphy, Terry Crews, and Loretta Devine. With the Fourth of July fast approaching, Kevin Carson (Bow Wow) purchases a pair of lottery tickets and settles down in front of the television to catch the winning numbers. When Kevin realizes he's just won 370 million dollars, he knows his neighbors will all come
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Cast
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Bow Wow
Kevin Carson -
Brandon T. Jackson
Benny -
Naturi Naughton
Stacie -
Loretta Devine
Grandma -
Ice Cube
Mr. Washington -
Keith David
Sweet Tee -
Terry Crews
Jimmy the Driver -
Mike Epps
Reverend Taylor -
Charlie Murphy
Semaj -
Bill Bellamy
Giovanni -
Gbenga Akinnagbe
Lorenzo -
Chris Williams
Doug -
Vince Green
Malik -
Leslie Jones
Tasha -
Malieek Straughter
Deangelo -
Jason Weaver
Ray-Ray -
Teairra Mari
Nikki Swayze -
Fahim Najm
Junior -
Stacie Davis
Reporter -
Andre Mayon
Officer Ross -
D.J. "Bishop" Rogers
Customer -
Brittany Eady
Attractive Lady -
Timfreit D'Rane
Angry Man -
Mike Pniewski
Carl -
Sky Cameron
Little Girl -
Eric J. Little
Random Neighbor -
Taneka Johnson
Random Neighbor #2 -
Tonea Stewart
Random Neighbor #3 -
IronE Singleton
Random Neighbor #4 -
Darryl D. Moore
Random Neighbor #5 -
Danielle Lewis
Voice in the Crowd -
Shantis Thompson
Female Voice -
Maria Duarte
Bonnie Berry -
Miko Defoor
Janitor -
Bobby L. Graham, Sr.
Brother Conner -
L. Stephanie Ray
Reverend Taylor's Ex-Wi... -
Lance Toland
Helicopter Pilot -
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All Critics (79) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (52) | DVD (5)
No doubt the characters are stereotypes, but the performances are handled with a knowing wink and a great deal of fun.
Top CriticLet's call it four out of six numbers, with no power bonus. Some payoff, but don't quit your job.
...a film that's largely wealthy in incoherence, raising a smile one minute and a cringe the next, until it finally devolves into a 'who-cares' cliché-fest.
A jumble of comedy and drama with a sprinkling of After School Special messaging and some head-scratchingly bad choices.
There's a one-in-a-billion story to Lottery Ticket: Those are the approximate odds against a script this bad making it out of the introductory seminar at film school.
Though the movie looks good and rarely lags on energy, the careless script is filled with tired stereotypes and easy clichés.
A tasteless and obnoxious "comedy," "Lottery Ticket" is easily one of the year's worst films.
Lottery Ticket is generally harmless; too slight to hold-up the more serious themes it is thinking about, but too well-meaning to be out-and-out insulting.
The cast is terrific and the basic premise is pleasing, but a wavering tone robs Lottery Ticket of some of its power.
...not a great movie by any stretch, just a remarkably genial one. (Blu-ray Edition)
...shallow, clichéd, sentimental, and derivative; but the cast makes up for the plot's deficiencies with an amiable charm that's hard to resist.
A ROFL treasure hunt which unfolds like an inner-city variation of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. What more can you ask for from a ghetto-fabulous, escapist fantasy?
If given the opportunity to see Lottery Ticket again (once was enough!), I'd break down... and buy some lottery tickets instead.
...a sporadically entertaining yet hopelessly uneven comedy that just doesn't work...
It's remarkable how much 18-year-old Kevin has in common with Ice Cube's Craig (from Friday), as well as how few structural or political changes have occurred over the past 15 years.
This Lottery Ticket doesn't pay out.
'Lottery Ticket' is a winner.
A low-budget comedy that's genial, morally sound and wholesome in the Barbershop mode...
Droll but tepid urban-kid-hits-lotto comedy
There are enough stereotypes in here to get Dr. Laura frothing at the mouth -- and enough menace to merit co-writing credit for the Hughes brothers.
For a movie like "Lottery Ticket" to work, viewers have to feel as if they themselves have come out ahead.
Audience Reviews for Lottery Ticket
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- Reverend Taylor: Put something in the plate and if we don't got a plate, put what you're going to give me in my hand.
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- Mr. Washington: Somebody read em a bedtime story!
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- Benny: You were supposed to get her number. Not doo-doo.
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- Nikki Swayze: Hey young blood. [punches Deangelo]
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