Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

2008 "Roscoe Jenkins aims for the heartstrings and funny bones, a raucous helping of family soul food."
5.5| 1h54m| PG-13| en| More Info
Released: 08 February 2008 Released
Producted By: Universal Pictures
Country: United States of America
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When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation!

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Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.
Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
MLDinTN This movie was better than recent Martin Lawrence films. It actually had humor that was funny in places. Lawrence plays a TV talk show host whom is engaged to a Survivor winner, Biancca. Bianca has turned him into a vegan and believes winning is everything. RJ goes home to a family reunion bringing Bianca and his son. He has a large, tough talking cousin, another cousin, Reggie, whom is not trustworthy, but his main rival is cousin Clyde. Clyde always won in everything until the family obstacle course and RJ finally beat him, but Clyde reneged on their bet. RJ's dad favors Clyde. Also, there is Lucinda a girl that both RJ and Clyde liked growing up. The family reunion turns into another contest between RJ and Clyde and Bianca sees she doesn't have much in common with RJ's family.Some of the funny scenes include Bianca saying sweet tea is like liquid diabetes, Bianca's dog with RJ's dog, the skunk, anything cousin Betty did.FINAL VERDICT: Give it a try, Martin Lawrence is funny again.
jandersonpwco If those people commenting that this is "one of Martin Lawrence's best performances", are accurate, I can only thank God that I had the wisdom not to see any of his other movies. We watched this movie at the recommendation of my girlfriend's 10 year old son. Maybe if you are 10 years old or have the mental capacity of a 10 year old, you will like this movie, but I cannot imagine anyone with half a functioning brain finding this film humorous.The characters are so predictable and stereotyped that they make Amos and Andy look complimentary of the African American race. If the filmmakers are going to insult an entire race of people, they should at least be remotely funny while they are doing so. The jokes - if you can call them that - were predictable and unfunny. All of the actors were so over the top in representing their assigned stereotypes, they were about as subtle - and enjoyable - as a sledgehammer upside the head. Next to this cast Adam Sandler is the equivalent of Sir Lawrence Olivier. The biggest embarrassment may be James Earl Jones, more than living up to his rep as one of Hollywood's biggest movie whores. He seems as engaged in this performance as a vegetarian in a butcher shop.I came into this movie bracing myself for an awful experience and Martin Lawrence and company managed to still amaze me with how incredibly bad this movie was. It ranks up there with legendary stinkers such as "Bingo, Baby's Day Out and I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry". A complete disaster.
moviewizguy A successful talk show host leaves Los Angeles to reunite with his family in the Deep South.By the end of this movie's trailer, you would've thought "Oh, not again." No, that's what you were thinking. Don't deny it. Even I did too. But the trailer is very misleading and I found myself liking this movie more than I was going to. A lot more.What I loved about this movie were the characters and moral. And yes, I loved those things. Each of the characters are unique and have their own memorable moments. Also, this movie had some pretty decent jokes, much better than many other comedies released this time who use clichéd and predictable jokes.What I also admired about this movie was the family matter and moral this movie was trying to give out. I found it oddly touching and very sweet. Unfortunately, the other jokes this movie seem to have were also predictable, gross, unfunny, and crude. Some scenes in the movie just ruin the sweets scenes before it because it felt like the filmmakers just want to make people laugh.Like I said, the characters were memorable. The most notable were James Earl Jones, Nicole Ari Parker, and Mo'Nique. Mo'Nique, I must say, is the funniest character in here, in my opinion. She throws each joke at you and you can't have enough!Yes, the trailers for this movie were misleading so the movie was actually quite decent. The jokes were actually funny, the characters memorable, and the moral is very touching for anyone who has a family. Sure, it had its bad moments but this is better than most comedies released this year.
robertallenandersonjr Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins was extremely funny. It was also sad at some parts in it, and can bring tears to your eyes. Some of the characters in it were very annoying and others just got you very mad. One thing they could have done better was made Roscoe Jenkins pay more attention to his son. The acting was excellent as well between all the characters. They all also got a pretty well amount of time each on the screen. The story didn't have to much to it and could have been done a lot better. For the most part all the characters they chose though did an amazing job and were all very funny. I would definitely see this movie over and over again with having to pay 7 or 8 dollars to see it. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes comedy movies you will not be disappointed. The message toward this movie was also excellent about just having fun and not always about winning, and also choosing your kid over a stupid game. All and all this was a great movie and will probably be the best comedy of the year.