SummaryTalk-show sensation RJ Stevens left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his "Team of Me" philosophy to millions of adoring fans. With a reality-TV-star fiancée and money to burn, there's no piece of the Hollywood dream RJ hasn't achieved. After his parents request that he come home f... Read More
Directed By:Malcolm D. Lee
Written By:Malcolm D. Lee
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
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46
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
46
22% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
22% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
75
Turns out to be formulaic and broad but also skillfully paced and big-hearted, with a sharp cast of comics that makes the most of a sunny script.
63
Under normal circumstances, too many comics spoil the show.
50
Imagine a Three Stooges short with a feel-good ending, and you get the idea.
50
As Roscoe's parents, Margaret Avery and James Earl Jones emerge with drawers undropped and dignity intact.
50
It's not the unevenness of the comedy that kills Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins but the illegitimacy of the drama.
38
This is one of those your-roots-are-showing family circuses where just about everybody seems like a clown.
25
It's not that you can't go home again. It's that you SHOULDN'T, at least not in a lowbrow Hollywood comedy, because your family will inevitably be lewd, crude, loud and obnoxious.
User score
Mixed or Average
4.9
25% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
44% Mixed
7 Ratings
7 Ratings
31% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Jun 20, 2022
6
This Martin Lawrence joint is so mid and it's starting to smell weird and horrible. Ima give it to my brother.
