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Good-natured but prepared with an absence of craft, The Cookout is an unappetizing collection of warmed-over jokes.
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Seemingly assembled from ideas on the cutting-room floor of a cancelled sitcom. Jan 5, 2007 | Full Review…
Seemingly assembled from ideas on the cutting-room floor of a cancelled sitcom.
Keith Phipps
This is one dull party. Jan 5, 2007 | Full Review…
This is one dull party.
J. R. Jones
Rivera and a host of screenwriters were apparently as cowed by Lady Em as Todd; she sucks up much of the screen time, and admirable though her family values may be, they're not exactly rip-roaring funny. Sep 9, 2004 | Full Review…
Rivera and a host of screenwriters were apparently as cowed by Lady Em as Todd; she sucks up much of the screen time, and admirable though her family values may be, they're not exactly rip-roaring funny.
Chuck Wilson
Todd's payday apparently sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style. Sep 9, 2004 | Rating: D | Full Review…
Todd's payday apparently sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style.
Lisa Schwarzbaum
A painfully unfunny, would-be comedy. Sep 8, 2004
A painfully unfunny, would-be comedy.
Frank Scheck
The pointlessness of The Cookout exudes a modicum of charm, but the simple-minded mess still lacks the wit and moral weight of an episode of Family Matters. Sep 7, 2004 | Full Review…
The pointlessness of The Cookout exudes a modicum of charm, but the simple-minded mess still lacks the wit and moral weight of an episode of Family Matters.
Akiva Gottlieb
Avoid this gross, raunchy comedy at all costs. Dec 28, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Avoid this gross, raunchy comedy at all costs.
Nell Minow
The very definition of an easy target--and, in all fairness, it deserves every last bit of criticism. Jan 7, 2010 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
The very definition of an easy target--and, in all fairness, it deserves every last bit of criticism.
Michael Dequina
Director Lance Rivera has never directed a movie before, and he doesn't start here. Aug 7, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Director Lance Rivera has never directed a movie before, and he doesn't start here.
Jim Lane
There may be someone in the audience who goes into hysterics at the mere sight of a baby's diaper soaked through with ****, but, if so, I hope never to meet him. Sep 16, 2005 | Full Review…
There may be someone in the audience who goes into hysterics at the mere sight of a baby's diaper soaked through with ****, but, if so, I hope never to meet him.
Jeremy C. Fox
Uma "comédia" sem a menor graça que, com seus estereótipos ofensivos a brancos, negros e homossexuais, falha não só do ponto de vista cinematográfico, mas também humano. Feb 9, 2005 | Rating: 1/5
Uma "comédia" sem a menor graça que, com seus estereótipos ofensivos a brancos, negros e homossexuais, falha não só do ponto de vista cinematográfico, mas também humano.
Pablo Villaça
...a taxing and intolerable vehicle that has all the charm of a gold-toothed rapper's root canal. The Cookout is certainly not any food for thought. Jan 19, 2005 | Rating: 1/4
...a taxing and intolerable vehicle that has all the charm of a gold-toothed rapper's root canal. The Cookout is certainly not any food for thought.
Frank Ochieng
The laughs were lukewarm
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