Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

New Title 1 A Walk Through Life by Duane Ashley PooleWelcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is a great comedy with some star entertainers Including Monique, Cedric The Entertainer, Mike Epps and Michael Clarke from Green mile. These stars have a great chemistry on the big screen together and it shows, I was not disappointed with my purchase in fact this was a better movie than I expected. Don't laugh to hard you just might cry, or if not you will definitely have a few laughs and a smile at the end of the day!. June 26, 2008

Did not laugh once during this movie. . .

. . . not even a chuckle. If you think farting during yoga is funny, this movie is for you. If you think having a big dog jump on someone is funny, this movie is for you. If you laugh your head off because the airline loses Martin's luggage and he's forced to wear silly clothes, this movie is for you. For everybody who has already graduated from the third grade, look elsewhere. June 23, 2008

A real fun movie ;->

I love pretty much anything that Mo'nique is in and anything Martin is in. To see them here together was a real treat. This movie is fun and enjoyable and sure it's corny and silly in some parts, but you can't take it too seriously. The cast is great (Nicole Ari Parker, James Earl Jones, Cedric the Entertainer, Joy Bryant etc) and the story fun.
Roscoe has moved across the country to get away from his family and is a talk show host out in LA. He goes back home to visit when it's his parents' 50th anniversary. It's there that we see exactly how zany his family really are and why he left in the first place. It's hilarious and yet we do also see him accept his family as they are too.
It's not Oscar material for sure, but it's a great movie for light entertainment with a terrific cast that will surely make you laugh. It's enjoyable and I really liked this one. June 9, 2008

Over educated people make me sick

To the above reviewer, yes the film may not be great, and you may not think it was funny or whatever, but your comparing it to a movie that has nothing in common with this film. Dan In Real Life???? Are you serious? Martin Lawrence along with several other African American comedians have always made films like this, they have nothing to do with Romance, and warm family comedy. They are suppose to relate to a certain audience and that is it. If you expect too much from an actor, or a trailer....... You will be dissapointed every time. I agree Martin has lost his edge a bit, but he has been doing it for a long time now, and I believe he will be just fine in years to come. If you are a Martin fan, buy the movie, if not do not buy it, it is not going to appeal to you. April 22, 2008

I won't take Roscoe Jenkins home with me.

When I first saw the trailer for "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," I thought it was going to be a great movie. I was ready for another nice, family get together romantic comedies after seeing "Dan In Real Life." After all, who wouldn't want to see a nice family get together romantic comedy. But I actually realized now that I was extremely wrong.

What the @$!% happened to Martin Lawrence? Sorry for the foul language back there, but what the hell happened to him? Wasn't he a really funny guy? He was terrible in "National Security" but turned out his brilliance in the original "Big Momma's House" movie. Yes, he had his moments in the sequel, but I couldn't stand "Big Momma's House 2," and I just happened to have thought the original "Big Momma's House" was so much better.

"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" actually proves that Martin Lawrence lost its edge and he was funny once. Sure, the movie is a great concept, but there's nothing you can expect from Martin Lawrence in his extremely ridiculous movie.

The film follows RJ Stevens whose a popular talk-show host and his fiance Bianca want to win a game of Survivor. Yet RJ Stevens and his fiance and son start to spend a four day weekend at his familys' place. Things start to go all wrong and off handy, but everything tries to shake up a bit. You know. Don't get me wrong. I did like the story, but everything else about the movie fails.

I couldn't really stand "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins." Maybe, I couldn't stand it at all. You have gotten Martin Lawrence in the film, but you also get good performances that go horribly wrong from Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, James Earl Jones and Monique. Monique's disgusting thing in the shower to Mike Epps was even left out from the film.

Another thing that I couldn't stand about the film were the jokes. From the trailer, they did seem funny, but when I watched the movie, I realized that the jokes were forced. Taking things from "Meet the Parents." Taking a spoof storyline out of "Dan In Real Life" and "The Family Stone" and even forcing things from a scene from "Toy Story" and forcing most things from "Meatballs." There were a couple of original jokes that were just so-so, but overall the movie just gets wasted everytime it crumbles and cracks.

Yes let Roscoe Jenkins go home. But you know what, I won't take him to my home. I'd just drop him off at his place and leave him there. OK! Now I'm exaggerating. I would rather have my own family resemble "Dan In Real Life" than in this one, because this one just doesn't give me a resemblance. April 18, 2008

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