With his movie debut, Talbert plays to his established audience, the redemption message riding roughshod over everything, even such trifling concerns as character consistency and continuity.
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03/28/08
First Sunday (2008)
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Reviews Counted:73
Fresh:10
Rotten:63
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: First Sunday may have its heart in the right place, but its funny bone is dislocated.
Theatrical Release:28-03-2008
Synopsis: David E. Talbert makes his directorial debut with this comedy about Durell (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan), childhood friends with a knack for getting into trouble. Despite his continual bad... [More]
Starring: Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine
Director: David E. Talbert
Reviews for First Sunday
Top CriticTired, unfunny comedy with Ice Cube as a bungling crook.
03/28/08
The least funny man ever to make a career in comedy movies, Ice Cube hauls his sullen mug back in front of the cameras for the execrable First Sunday.
03/28/08
Top CriticCube's maudlin, overly precious relationship with his son hits a few sour notes, but Morgan's rubbery, half-crazy Leejohn always drags the film back into its manic, cartoony groove.
03/28/08
On your own day of judgement, select a better film from the listings.
03/28/08
Top CriticLoretta Devine and Olivia Cole shine out as veteran members of the flock, but even their class combined is no saving grace.
03/28/08
Top CriticSeasoned stars such as Loretta Devine and Regina Hall do their best...but it's an uphill struggle with a script even the good lord would rent asunder.
03/28/08
Grafting moral uplift on to a slapstick caper with mixed results, this nevertheless captures some of the giddy eccentricity of the Ealing comedies it haphazardly resembles.
03/28/08
Top CriticPerhaps moviegoers demand simplicity and cheap laughs more than ever during tough times, but this must be discouraging to aspiring African-American comedians and writers.
04/26/09
This movie fails as a comedy, a drama, a morality play, and as a coherent motion picture. Awful stuff!
08/26/08
If it was not for Morgan's goofy character or Katt Williams, I would be giving this movie a zero.
05/17/08
Devilish satire outing felons who come in gaudy three piece suits too, a sweltering church 'hotter than Satan's toenails' and Sunday sermon sidebars that all the rest makes go down easy.
05/03/08
The missing-church-funds subplot will be easily figured out by any four year old, but it winds up being a McGuffin anyway.
05/01/08
With its unlikely but sweet-natured story, 'First Sunday' is a cut above most of the "January junk" that floods the theaters this time of year.
02/24/08
Getting religion in the end is no excuse for a parade of bad taste.
02/22/08
Ice Cube is now Public Enemy Number Fun, although First Sunday is only fun if you're in dire need of a modernist urban take on the strain of comedy Abbott and Costello used to practice, which, let's be honest, wasn't that funny to begin with.
02/01/08
Talbert's unable to pin down exactly what kind of movie he wants to make, a slapstick sermon or an urban tragicomedy?
01/29/08
Writer-director David E. Talbert has a fine cast...but he lets them down with a wretched, amateurish script...
01/17/08
If Tyler Perry ever wanted to turn Dog Day Afternoon into a treacly after-school special, it would probably end up looking a lot like this.
01/17/08
Ice Cube's franchising of the weekdays continues with First Sunday.
01/17/08
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