Avoid this gross, raunchy comedy at all costs.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2010

The very definition of an easy target--and, in all fairness, it deserves every last bit of criticism.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 7, 2010

Director Lance Rivera has never directed a movie before, and he doesn't start here.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Seemingly assembled from ideas on the cutting-room floor of a cancelled sitcom.

| Jan 5, 2007

This is one dull party.

| Jan 5, 2007

There may be someone in the audience who goes into hysterics at the mere sight of a baby's diaper soaked through with ****, but, if so, I hope never to meet him.

| Sep 16, 2005

Uma "comédia" sem a menor graça que, com seus estereótipos ofensivos a brancos, negros e homossexuais, falha não só do ponto de vista cinematográfico, mas também humano.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 9, 2005

...a taxing and intolerable vehicle that has all the charm of a gold-toothed rapper's root canal. The Cookout is certainly not any food for thought.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 19, 2005

It's low comedy and it's crudely made. But that's no excuse for it being dull.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Oct 31, 2004

Everything else here -- from the gross caricatures to the so-called comic mayhem -- is sour to taste.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Sep 19, 2004

Plenty of action and confusion in this wild story that culminates in a cookout.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 14, 2004

It does provide some true laughs and, incredibly, some real humanity.

| Sep 11, 2004

The movie unfolds in the most perfunctory fashion. At least the food looks good.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 11, 2004

Director Lance Rivera raises some legitimate questions about moving up versus selling out and the commodification of professional athletes, but he couldn't care less about answering them.

| Sep 11, 2004

Rippin' and Dippin'

Full Review | Sep 10, 2004

This is one more entry in the long list of 'urban comedies' that dish out the kind of humor that would probably spark protests if the filmmakers weren't African-American.

| Sep 9, 2004

Rivera and a host of screenwriters were apparently as cowed by Lady Em as Todd; she sucks up much of the screen time, and admirable though her family values may be, they're not exactly rip-roaring funny.

| Sep 9, 2004

Todd's payday apparently sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style.

| Original Score: D | Sep 9, 2004

There might have been a decent comedy here if someone had remembered to insert some actual humor.

Full Review | Sep 9, 2004

A painfully unfunny, would-be comedy.

Full Review | Sep 8, 2004