Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 64
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins has moments of comic inspiration -- and long stretches of overdone slapstick.
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 21
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins has moments of comic inspiration -- and long stretches of overdone slapstick.
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A single father who has just found success as the host of an outrageous television talk show begins to question his path in life when he returns home to attend his parents' 50th wedding anniversary party in the company of his famous fiancée -- a reality television star -- in this crisis-of-conscience comedy starring Martin Lawrence. RJ Stevens (Lawrence) is a television talk-show sensation who has transcended his modest Southern beginnings to become the most popular self-help guru ever to grace
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Cast
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Martin Lawrence
RJ Stevens -
Margaret Avery
Mama Jenkins -
Joy Bryant
Bianca Kittles -
Louis C.K.
Marty -
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Mike Epps
Reggie -
Nicole Ari Parker
Lucinda -
Cedric the Entertainer
Clyde -
James Earl Jones
Papa Jenkins -
Mo'Nique
Betty -
Damani Roberts
Jamaal -
Liz Mikael
Ruthie Jenkins
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Actors such as Michael Clarke Duncan, Mo'Nique, Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer have been persuaded by writer-director Malcolm D. Lee to do crass routines that should have gone out with minstrel shows.
Top CriticThis is a loud, stupid, cliché-riddled mess.
A 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.
There's little to distinguish this oddly mean-spirited comedy.
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins reinforces the sense that movies are not about real life but about other movies.
Sometimes, with a film like this, one grabs for anything potentially redeeming. It doesn't happen here.
great performances that will have the audience thoroughly entertained.
Like a lot of Hollywood filler, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins' mandate seems to be to entertain and satisfy as many people as possible by sticking to a tested and proven formula, the result of which is it does neither particularly well.
Good cast can't save stereotype-laden comedy.
Easily Lawrence's best starring role. But keep in mind that's only compared to his other movies.
An impressively pointless minstrel show.
All this said, there's a not bad movie inside of Welcome Home, visible in the quiet center provided by Margaret Avery.
For all the comedians, there just aren't enough jokes unless you are shooting for the revolting variety.
Uneven, tasteless and just not all that funny, 'Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins' is another non-stellar vehicle for Martin Lawrence.
If Lee had actually directed his performers ... Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins probably would have been a better movie. But frantic flailing isn't consistent forward motion.
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless...
a cast full of talented comedians and a director who obviously doesn't mind watching his cast go way over the top in search of raucous and randy laughs
Crosses the worst of Tyler Perry's 'old-fashioned values' preachiness (minus the religious stuff) with the leering crudity of the standard Martin Lawrence vehicle.
I laughed harder watching Norbit.
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The movie is funny and it's a nice family film. The story was nice and simple. Nice cast of actors and all were in sync which was a plus. Good movie to watch on TV or Rent.
A single father who has just found success as the host of an outrageous television talk show begins to question his path in life when he returns home to attend his parents' 50th wedding anniversary party in the company of his famous fiancée -- a reality television star -- in this crisis-of-conscience comedy starring Martin Lawrence. RJ Stevens (Lawrence) is a television talk-show sensation who has transcended his modest Southern beginnings to become the most popular self-help guru ever to grace the small screen. His show, "Team of Me," is a ratings juggernaut, his fiancée is a beautiful reality television star, and his pockets are always lined with large bills. There are few Tinseltown dreams that RJ hasn't already achieved, so when his parents announce their 50th wedding anniversary, the family-oriented television star immediately drops everything and sets his sights on Georgia. As a boy, RJ was always the target of ridicule within his family, but these days things are different; not only does RJ have a ten-year-old son, but his bride-to-be is admired by countless viewers all across the globe on a weekly basis. But RJ's egotistical West Coast attitude simply doesn't fly in the South, and when his lovable but relentless family refuses to cut him any slack due to his current superstar status, he must finally pause and take stock of the man he has become. Louis C.K., Cedric the Entertainer, Michael Clarke Duncan, and James Earl Jones co-star in a Southern-flavored family comedy written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee.