The much-abused hero of this family-reunion comedy shares his first name with a Los Angeles restaurant chain best known for its chicken 'n' waffles -- a delicious if artery-clogging combo. Lawrence ...

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Roscoe Jenkins (Martin Lawrence) is a successful talk show host who returns home, for the first time in years, to attend his parents 50th wedding anniversary.

No one dons a "Big Momma's House" fat suit in "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," yet the Martin Lawrence family reunion comedy is just as awash in silly caricatures as his earlier Deep South ...

Regardless of whether you can truly go home again, movies such as “Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins” suggest that you can, and they serve up hearty doses of original kin to comically substantiate that ...

Martin Lawrence plays the title hero of this slapstick farce, the black sheep of a Georgia-based family who’s worked his way up to become a sort of male Oprah Winfrey on TV. Accompanied by his ...

Which Lame-Seeming Martin Lawrence Comedy Is Which?A side-by-side comparison of Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins and College Road Trip. cheek by jowl Feb. 8, 2008 Which Lame-Seeming Martin Lawrence Comedy ...

Leading an all-star comedy cast, Martin Lawrence is talk-show sensation RJ Stevens, who left behind his modest Southern upbringing and family name to transform into a self-help guru dispensing his ...

Joan Vadeboncoeur review: 'Roscoe' is surprisingly entertaining: Give actor Martin Lawrence credit for taking a page out of director/actor Tyler Perry's playbook. Lawrence's "Welcome Home Roscoe ...

>Welcome Home Roscoe JenkinsGrade: B-Director: Malcolm D. LeeCast: Martin Lawrence, Cedric the Entertainer, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, Mo'Nique, Mike Epps, Joy ...

Martin Lawrence’s latest is a Tyler Perry movie without Tyler Perry, mixing broadly-drawn characters, saucy comedy and some slapstick with a dose of melodrama. The story follows talk-show host R.J.