First, I need to explain; this is not necessarily a movie that I would normally see in theatres. I did express a little interest in it, but only as a movie I would watch had it been on cable.

I got dragged into this whole First Sunday mess only because I was with two girls, both of whom desperately wanted to see 27 Dresses. Well, the brother of one of them was not down. So, I said I would go with him to see whatever was playing. It came down to this, or Meet The Spartans. Hopefully, now you can at least see why this choice was made.

Onto the cinematic adventure! I had good knowledge of what to expect as I sat down in this very empty, very shabby theatre. I knew the premise, I knew the stars, and I really was interested to see Ice Cube in another situational comedy. That would have been all fine, had they actually had any intention of this being a comedy. I laughed, probably, twice. And both of those laughs came in the first 20 minutes. Had I not been with my best friend's brother, I would have walked out. It was 20 minutes of comedy, and another 1 hour of Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan just talking. Nothing that important either.

In fact, in one scene, they argue for 15 minutes over who has the money. They tried very hard to get you to care about the characters, sooooo hard. But they failed miserably. You didn’t care about his son, you didn’t care if Tracy Morgan died, you didn’t care who the hell had the money, you just wanted it to end.

My only guess is that they tied Cube and Morgan to the script, rather than let them improvise. They are both funny guys, but this is probably one of the biggest comedic flops I've ever been forced to witness. The only other movie I've ever wanted to just run from as fast as I could, was Shallow Hal. So, hopefully that avoids any type of possible racist accusation. Black, White, Asian, Hispanic (Carlos Mencia), if it isn’t funny...it REALLY isn’t funny. I mean, REALLY REALLY REALLY, isn’t funny. Here’s hoping there’s no "Next Sunday". Seriously, upon learning that this was David E. Talbert's directorial debut, I wasn't surprised. I also wouldn't be surprised if it's the last movie he directs.

0.5/5