Develops an uncommonly warm and compassionate tone.
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04/16/01
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Kingdom Come (2001)
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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:18
Rotten:45
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: While it has its moments, Kingdom Come is marred by a script that's low on laughs and uneven in tone.
Theatrical Release:Apr 11, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $22,574,258
Synopsis: Whoopi Goldberg stars in KINGDOM COME as matriarch Raynelle Slocumb, whose mean-spirited husband, Ray Bud, unexpectedly falls down dead at the breakfast table in this touching and irreverent comedy... [More]
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Toni Braxton, LL Cool J, Jada Pinkett Smith
Director: Doug McHenry
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A heavyset daughter who never talks but eats a lot is named Delightful, which is supposed to be funny. That pretty much sums up the movie's comic tone.
04/13/01
Top CriticWhile Kingdom Come follows the formula for comic combustibility, it's even more inert than Bud, who at least comes to life for a brief fantasy sequence.
04/13/01
Top CriticIt is difficult to find anything interesting about the onscreen bickering and distress concerning repeatedly harped-upon issues.
04/13/01
The script and plot become far too predictable -- to the point that the audience knows exactly where it's going to go and reluctantly follows it.
04/12/01
Awful because it's full of archaic stereotypes, glaringly bad performances and enough Parent 'Hood-ish sitcom yuks to give Spike Lee an arm-length list of reasons to make Bamboozled 2 in response.
04/12/01
The structure and style are a staple of many traveling black stage shows ... What slays them in the second balcony, though, flattens on the screen.
04/12/01
Top CriticA mediocre sitcom writ large.
04/12/01
Top CriticThe comedy sequences are routinely played for the very broadest sort of slapstick, which makes its abrupt attempts to switch gears back into genuine dramatic emotion-mode all the more impossible to sustain.
04/12/01
Manages to be profound without being pompous.
04/11/01
Top CriticLL Cool J and his co-stars, Devine and Goldberg, fare better than their castmates, all of whom deserve stronger material than screenwriters David Dean Bottrell and Jessie Jones's predictable, forgiveness-themed script provides.
04/11/01
You get the sense that many of the characters and much of the raucous familial wrangling would have worked better in a theatrical setting.
04/11/01
Despite an appealing cast that includes Toni Braxton and Cedric The Entertainer, Kingdom Come won't leave you with a happy feeling -- and it may just leave you feeling surly.
04/11/01
Kingdom Come has its moments, but clearly isn't as good or funny as it could have been.
04/11/01
Sometimes there's nothing to be done about death except laugh at it, which is exactly what the comedy Kingdom Come does, with most of the right laughs in most of the right places and some unexpected ones thrown in.
04/11/01
Top CriticAn offensive portrait of an extended African-American family featuring a roster of characters portrayed without respect, affection, humor, or anything resembling good taste.
04/11/01
A messy, largely disappointing comedy-drama that’s hopelessly torn between sincerity and outrageousness.
04/11/01
Sharp performances and funny dialogue, along with its innate sweetness, make Kingdom Come a winner.
04/11/01
A lukewarm African-American sitcom that forsakes the laugh track in favor of an R&B soundtrack.
04/11/01
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