Mo'Nique, unlike Lawrence, manages to show off her sincere side alongside her improvisational skills in the film's latter half.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

Although Roscoe Jenkins doesn't pretend to break new ground, it makes its "honor your past" tale fresh and funny.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 17, 2017

great performances that will have the audience thoroughly entertained.

| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Sep 4, 2012

| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Like a lot of Hollywood filler, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins' mandate seems to be to entertain and satisfy as many people as possible by sticking to a tested and proven formula, the result of which is it does neither particularly well.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Mar 7, 2011

Good cast can't save stereotype-laden comedy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2010

Easily Lawrence's best starring role. But keep in mind that's only compared to his other movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2008

All this said, there's a not bad movie inside of Welcome Home, visible in the quiet center provided by Margaret Avery.

Full Review | Mar 21, 2008

For all the comedians, there just aren't enough jokes unless you are shooting for the revolting variety.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Mar 4, 2008

Uneven, tasteless and just not all that funny, 'Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins' is another non-stellar vehicle for Martin Lawrence.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 24, 2008

If Lee had actually directed his performers ... Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins probably would have been a better movie. But frantic flailing isn't consistent forward motion.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 23, 2008

Actors such as Michael Clarke Duncan, Mo'Nique, Mike Epps and Cedric the Entertainer have been persuaded by writer-director Malcolm D. Lee to do crass routines that should have gone out with minstrel shows.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 22, 2008

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 19, 2008

a cast full of talented comedians and a director who obviously doesn't mind watching his cast go way over the top in search of raucous and randy laughs

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 13, 2008

Crosses the worst of Tyler Perry's 'old-fashioned values' preachiness (minus the religious stuff) with the leering crudity of the standard Martin Lawrence vehicle.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 13, 2008

This is a loud, stupid, cliché-riddled mess.

Full Review | Feb 11, 2008

I laughed harder watching Norbit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 11, 2008

Ugh. Just ugh.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Feb 9, 2008