Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Widescreen)

starring: Martin Lawrence, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, Nicole Ari Parker, Mike Epps See Larger Image List Price: $29.98 You Pay Only: $19.49 You Save: $10.49 (35%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS - WS (DVD MOVIE) EAN: 0025195015875 Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Region Code: 1 Release Date: June 17, 2008 Running Time: 60 minutes Sales Rank: 3776 Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 2008 Related Items: Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns First Sunday The Great Debaters Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (Full Screen Edition) College Road Trip see more Editorial Review: Product Description: 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)System Requirements:Running Time: 114 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/FAMILY GATHERINGS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 025195015875 Manufacturer No: 61101992 Amazon.com: 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 Beyond Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins on DVD Get the Soundtrack More Martin Lawrence More Comedies from Universal Studios Stills from Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Click for larger image) Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins - Review This was an excellent movie! It is very funny. Some parts were not PG-rated, but as a whole, it is a very good comedy for ADULT audiences. Rating: - 3.5--Going home is not always a vacation.... "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," one of the better recent efforts from the funny wing of Black Hollywood. (It is certainly better than "First Sunday.") The film is written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee, who directed but did not write the hilarious 2002 film "Undercover Brother." Lee definitely has some jokes in this one--especially involving canine love--but it seems likely that the film's comedic quartet offered some choice jokes to the script and fed off of each other, upping the comedic ante as they went along. Roscoe (Martin Lawrence), is a talk show host who is depicted as a decent but ambitious man who revels in the celebrity life he shares with his fiancé, Bianca Kittles (Joy Bryant). As a winner of the television show, "Survival," Bianca has transferred all the driven, maniacal aspects of her personality needed for that win to her day-to-day life. In a very L.A. sort of way, not seen on screen since perhaps Robin Givens played several roles as a Black man eater, Bianca keeps her world on a tight leash of accomplishment. She knows exactly what she wants, how she is going to get it and what is clearly unacceptable in her realm of the high life. Sure, Bianca's depiction is extreme--women are sort of thrown under the bus in this one--but the men don't come off looking much better. Martin Lawrence, Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer compete with Mo'Nique to be the sorriest and funniest of them all when they all gather in the South for a wedding anniversary celebration ... Read More Rating: - Funny, but flawed When Roscoe is forced to go home for his parent's 50th anniversary he finds his family still treats him like the goofball he once was. Even with his trophy girlfriend, he gets no respect, least of all from his brothers and sisters and cousin. I found this film amusing. I particularly liked Mo'Nique as his sister, and the scenes of his relatives on his television show in the credits. There were some cliche elements I could've done without such as the country mouse cliche (Roscoe became a big star, becomes egotistical materialistic etc.) Also the glories of finding true love with your high school sweetheart. *Yawns* These tropes are done to death in films. There is a little grossness, mostly in the forms of fake and kind of silly dog fornication. (Between his girlfriend's pomeranian and a golden retriever), and suggestive themes. Not for small kids, but teens have probably seen worse. Rating: - WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS Great DVD. Arrived in great condition and got it at a fraction of the cost. Rating: - Decent But Definitely Not Hilarious Its hard to build a story around humor that relies on playin the dozens, particularly during scenes intended to be serious. Someone needs to tell Monique that saying something stupid loudly doesn't make it funny. Her big mouth overshadowed the content of every scene. She seems like a beautiful person, but that is not the issue. (Shouting "How was your weekend?" to my asian drycleaner won't make him say "Fine. And you," instead he nods and half says "Yeah, Thank you.") If you have nothing better to do, it is worth a watch. Martin and Ced are funny until they stop acting like comedians. Epps has gotten funnier. And there are several nice cleavage shots. More Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (Widescreen) Reviews Browse for similar items by category: Comedy - Genres - DVD - Video - General ( A ) - Actors & Actresses - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - Avery, Margaret ( D ) - Actors & Actresses - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - Duncan, Michael Clarke ( E ) - Actors & Actresses - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - Entertainer, Cedric The ( J ) - Actors & Actresses - Custom Stores - Specialty Stores - DVD - Video - Jones, James Earl

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