Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Widescreen)

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Actor: James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, Martin Lawrence, Mike Epps, Nicole Ari Parker
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
Cinematographer: Greg Gardiner
Composer: David Newman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-17
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Reviews of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Widescreen)

DVD Review: Laughs, Laughs and More Laughs
Summary: 5 Stars

I just love this movie!

The concept, The Plot, The Theme, The Actors...The Movie

The Bottom Line is this is an all around great movie from the beggining to the end I laughed and laughed...yes it had some corny moments but even in it's corniness it was funny!

DVD Review: Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
Summary: 1 Stars

Never recive Very unhappy. Was Bill from it. Will not order from this company agaain

DVD Review: Roscoe Jenkins...
Summary: 5 Stars

Very funny movie. Dvd came in the condition stated and I received pretty quickly after ordering. Very pleased with my purchase.

DVD Review: laughless comedy
Summary: 2 Stars

The misbegotten comedy "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" features Martin Lawrence as a "Trash-TV" talk show host who, against his better judgment, attends a family get-together commemorating the 50th wedding anniversary of his parents (played by James Earl Jones and Margeret Avery, who are both way too classy for this enterprise). Roscoe's return leads to a seemingly endless series of conflicts and petty competitions between the citified prodigal son and his country bumpkin relatives still living back home.

The performances are fun and lively - particularly by Mo`Nique, who steals the show as Roscoe's loudmouth, up-in-everybody`s-grill sister - but the threadbare script, filled as it is with predictable slapstick and cloying sentimentality, rarely makes us laugh. The movie probably would have been better had it dispensed with the family reunion concept altogether and, instead, focused on satirizing Jenkins' day job. As it is, there`s really nothing in Roscoe`s attitude and demeanor to suggest that he has anything in common with the Jerry Springers of the world. And without that angle to distinguish the movie from every other run-of-the-mill family comedy of recent vintage, any possible interest the film might have generated dies aborning.

Well worth skipping.

DVD Review: Real Cute
Summary: 4 Stars

First Off, I love Martin Lawrence...he's a great comedian so naturally I'm going to love the movie right off the bat. The movie has character. There is a beginning, middle, and end and every part makes you smile.

I added this to my collection and you should too.

Description of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Widescreen)

Martin Lawrence leads an all-star cast, including Cedric the Entertainer, Mo'Nique, and Mike Epps, in the hit comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins. When a celebrated TV show host (Lawrence) returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind him that going home is no vacation! It's one outrageous predicament after another when big-city attitude and small-town values collide in this hysterical comedy critics are praising for its "over-the-top hilarity!" (Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel)

While its story might sound terribly interesting, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is largely a vehicle for gross-out sight gags and grotesque performances by performers who, in many cases, don't need to do such things. Martin Lawrence stars as R.J. Stevens, a successful, Jerry Springer-like, television talk show host who sets aside his perfect life with a sweet son (Damani Roberts) and celebrity girlfriend (Joy Bryant) to attend his parents' golden wedding anniversary back home in Georgia. From the moment he arrives, all the reasons R.J. left to reinvent himself on the West Coast become clear. His siblings and cousins (Mike Epps, Mo'Nique, Michael Clarke Duncan, Cedric the Entertainer) quickly put him in his place, reminding him that his name is actually Roscoe Jenkins. His sweet mother (Margaret Avery) watches impassively while R.J.'s dad (James Earl Jones) strikes one disapproving note after another. R.J. would be content to wait out the anniversary events and go home, but the arrival of a woman (Nicole Ari Parker) he loved but couldn't keep during his adolescence changes everything, bringing out the competitive survivor within. Written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee (Undercover Brother), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins promises rich comedy and dramatic flavorings, as well as a bunch of delightful actors doing what only they can do best. But Lee subverts the project for cheap and easy laughs, using his best material to do little else than bridge scenes of bad slapstick, bestial perversity, clownish sex and irritating, motormouth rants from the likes of Mo'Nique and Epps. This a hard movie to sit through at 114 minutes, one of those what-were-they-thinking-when-they-made-this films. --Tom Keogh

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