Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (2008)

Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins: Directed by Malcolm D. Lee. With Martin Lawrence, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, Joy Bryant. Dr. RJ Stevens is a talk show host who visits his family in the deep south. While there he reunites with his brother Otis, his sister Betty, his cousin/rival Clyde and his childhood love interest Lucinda Allen.

“This is a terribly disappointing movie. With such a well-known cast I was expecting something with a great deal more substance. Iu0026#39;ll admit that the overall message of depending on family regardless of differences and personalities is a respectable message, however, the means certainly did not justify the end in this case. The unrestrained (and unnecessary) profanity, explicit sex scenes (with the dogs) and the rude, uncouth and vulgar mouth of Monique (who comes off as just plain olu0026#39; trashy) does not do the movie, the actors or the message any justice.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEvery one of these actors has portrayed highly memorable characters in other works, yet this was a break from good, wholesome fun, into raunchy, loudmouthed, predictable, almost cartoonish antics. The movie was extremely shallow.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRegrettably, this movie does nothing but reinforce negative associations for the black (African-American) community. After all of the struggles put forth by civil rights activists, why would these actors go to such lengths to erode all the good that was accomplished? Seems self-defeating to me.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFrom the caliber of these actors I expected so much more. Very disappointing.”