Seemingly assembled from ideas on the cutting-room floor of a cancelled sitcom.
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01/05/07
The Cookout (2004)
5 %
Reviews Counted: 39 Fresh: 2 Rotten:37 Average Rating: 2.7/10
Consensus:
A collection of warmed over jokes.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Synopsis: TODD ANDERSON is chosen as the #1 NBA draft pick by the New Jersey Nets and signs a contract for thirty million dollars that instantly changes his life. Whether he likes it or not his mom, LADY EM played by Jenifer Lewis, is not going to let her son forget his roots. Todd is at a crossroads and with his... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Storm P, Eve, Queen Latifah, Danny Glover, Tim Meadows
Director: Lance Rivera
Screenwriter: Laurie Turner, Jeffrey Brian Holmes, Arthur Harris, Ramsey Gbelawoe
Producer: Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere
Composer: Camara Kambon
Screenwriter: Laurie Turner, Jeffrey Brian Holmes, Arthur Harris, Ramsey Gbelawoe
Producer: Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere
Composer: Camara Kambon
Reviews
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.
09/16/05
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07/21/05
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03/07/05
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.
02/09/05
...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.
01/19/05
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11/13/04
It's low comedy and it's crudely made. But that's no excuse for it being dull.
10/31/04
Everything else here -- from the gross caricatures to the so-called comic mayhem -- is sour to taste.
09/19/04
Plenty of action and confusion in this wild story that culminates in a cookout.
09/14/04
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09/11/04
It does provide some true laughs and, incredibly, some real humanity.
09/11/04
The movie unfolds in the most perfunctory fashion. At least the food looks good.
09/11/04
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09/10/04
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.
09/09/04
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.
09/09/04
Todd's payday apparently sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style.
09/09/04
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