I didn't think that Bow Wow was the right lead for this. The supporting cast really held up the film but the lulls in the story made it a bit of a chore at times.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2025

This was mildly entertaining with a great comedic turn from T-Pain. The second act has a few lulls that hurt the pacing but there's worse ways to spend 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2025

You've seen all of this before.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 14, 2020

it has about 40 minutes of story and needs to be padded out to its 99-minute running time

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2014

A tasteless and obnoxious "comedy," "Lottery Ticket" is easily one of the year's worst films.

| Original Score: 0.0/5 | Jan 5, 2013

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

Lottery Ticket is generally harmless; too slight to hold-up the more serious themes it is thinking about, but too well-meaning to be out-and-out insulting.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 29, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 31, 2011

No doubt the characters are stereotypes, but the performances are handled with a knowing wink and a great deal of fun.

| Dec 20, 2010

The cast is terrific and the basic premise is pleasing, but a wavering tone robs Lottery Ticket of some of its power.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 21, 2010

...shallow, clichéd, sentimental, and derivative; but the cast makes up for the plot's deficiencies with an amiable charm that's hard to resist.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 16, 2010

If given the opportunity to see Lottery Ticket again (once was enough!), I'd break down... and buy some lottery tickets instead.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 15, 2010

...a sporadically entertaining yet hopelessly uneven comedy that just doesn't work...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 10, 2010

It's remarkable how much 18-year-old Kevin has in common with Ice Cube's Craig (from Friday), as well as how few structural or political changes have occurred over the past 15 years.

| Sep 5, 2010

This Lottery Ticket doesn't pay out.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Aug 28, 2010

'Lottery Ticket' is a winner.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 26, 2010

A low-budget comedy that's genial, morally sound and wholesome in the Barbershop mode...

| Original Score: B- | Aug 26, 2010

Droll but tepid urban-kid-hits-lotto comedy

| Original Score: C | Aug 26, 2010

There are enough stereotypes in here to get Dr. Laura frothing at the mouth -- and enough menace to merit co-writing credit for the Hughes brothers.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 24, 2010

For a movie like "Lottery Ticket" to work, viewers have to feel as if they themselves have come out ahead.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 20, 2010