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No doubt the characters are stereotypes, but the performances are handled with a knowing wink and a great deal of fun.
Let'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.
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.
With Ice Cube producing, and his regular buddies (Mike Epps, Terry Crews and Charlie Murphy) along for the ride, 'Lottery Ticket' is the latest charming and humorous film from the 'hood.
It all comes off a bit like an extended episode of "Everybody Hates Chris" with really bad language.
The chase scenes -- and there are many -- are well shot with deft comic timing. The rest you can see coming all the way from uptown.
The very likable young leads salvage this broad comedy from complete disaster but you know you're in trouble when Bow Wow is the best thing about a movie.
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