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Nell Minow, Chicago Sun-Times: There are a lot of outrageous, raunchy, and insulting comments from caricatured family members, but, surprisingly, considering that most of them are played by stand-up comics, very few actual jokes. Read more
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times: It's a cut above other films of its type because every scene is packed with...touches that suggest that the filma(TM)s writer and director, Malcolm D. Lee, is working overtime to smuggle life into formula. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: A few laughs and a lot of hyperbolic shtick make this a little better than formulaic before the standard-issue resolution. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Sometimes, with a film like this, one grabs for anything potentially redeeming. It doesn't happen here. Read more
David Germain, Associated Press: Truth be told, everyone and everything about Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is pretty unlikable. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins leans too heavily on bruising slapstick for easy laughs, with Lawrence absorbing blows from most of his family members, when mosquitoes and skunks aren't getting in on the action. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Roscoe Jenkins works best when it aims lowest. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie hurts. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: Writer-director Malcolm D. Lee sets out to prove that you can go home again, but the lesson apparently is that it's going to be painful for everyone involved (audiences included). Read more
Kelley L. Carter, Chicago Tribune: Writer/director Malcolm D. Lee delivers a relatable comedy that drops viewers off in this family that just happens to be African-American. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: The movie ditches clever for crass: Mo'nique and Mike Epps, as opportunistic cousin Reggie, provide most of the downhome and dirty entendres. Less 'nique would have fixed much of what ails this movie. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: A large, talented cast is mostly wasted in Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, one of those movies Hollywood cranks out to celebrate the down-home charms of small town life by exposing the vapidity of showbiz and celebrity. Read more
Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly: If you thought National Lampoon's Vacation films were at least okay, then Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is a decent enough way to spend two hours. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: It's impressive, actually, that Lawrence lets this film's supporting players steal so much of his show -- as movie stars go, he must be a pretty secure guy. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Even when the movie's overplayed or undercooked, its roughhousing energy grows on you. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Spiking sentimental family values with crude hilarity isn't the recipe for an award winner. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Possible signs of the apocalypse: a rain of fire, return of the Messiah, my enjoy ing a Martin Lawrence comedy. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Hollywood, which spent most of the last century ignoring the black family, seems determined to spend most of this one showing the same black family. Over and over. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Roscoe Jenkins labors too hard to wring too-few chuckles. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If the idea of watching Martin Lawrence getting used and abused appeals to you, then Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is the movie for you. Read more
Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: The message - stay true to your roots - is solid, and [director] Lee gives his outstanding comic cast some sharp one-liners, but he undermines the effort with crass humor, mugging and slapstick. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Modestly budgeted and massively dumb, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins belongs to the sassy sistas and blinged-out playas school of comedy (maybe it's a preschool, come to think of it). Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Lawrence [has] rarely been more appealing. That's partly because this latest incarnation of his usual persona is more vulnerable and likeable, but mostly it's a relief not to see him strain so hard to Bogart all the jokes. Read more
Philip Marchand, Toronto Star: Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins reinforces the sense that movies are not about real life but about other movies. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: An in-your-face double helping of fat jokes, crude slapstick, wacky Southern-black stereotypes and occasionally inspired improv. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A talented comedian, Lawrence has leaned all too easily on formula for his successful films. Imagine if he would test his flair against original and fresh premises, instead of the tried and trite. Read more