When I first saw the trailer for "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," I thought it was going to be a great movie. I was ready for another nice, family get together romantic comedies after seeing "Dan In Real Life." After all, who wouldn't want to see a nice family get together romantic comedy. But I actually realized now that I was extremely wrong.



What the @$!% happened to Martin Lawrence? Sorry for the foul language back there, but what the hell happened to him? Wasn't he a really funny guy? He was terrible in "National Security" but turned out his brilliance in the original "Big Momma's House" movie. Yes, he had his moments in the sequel, but I couldn't stand "Big Momma's House 2," and I just happened to have thought the original "Big Momma's House" was so much better.



"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins" actually proves that Martin Lawrence lost its edge and he was funny once. Sure, the movie is a great concept, but there's nothing you can expect from Martin Lawrence in his extremely ridiculous movie.



The film follows RJ Stevens whose a popular talk-show host and his fiance Bianca want to win a game of Survivor. Yet RJ Stevens and his fiance and son start to spend a four day weekend at his familys' place. Things start to go all wrong and off handy, but everything tries to shake up a bit. You know. Don't get me wrong. I did like the story, but everything else about the movie fails.



I couldn't really stand "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins." Maybe, I couldn't stand it at all. You have gotten Martin Lawrence in the film, but you also get good performances that go horribly wrong from Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, James Earl Jones and Monique. Monique's disgusting thing in the shower to Mike Epps was even left out from the film.



Another thing that I couldn't stand about the film were the jokes. From the trailer, they did seem funny, but when I watched the movie, I realized that the jokes were forced. Taking things from "Meet the Parents." Taking a spoof storyline out of "Dan In Real Life" and "The Family Stone" and even forcing things from a scene from "Toy Story" and forcing most things from "Meatballs." There were a couple of original jokes that were just so-so, but overall the movie just gets wasted everytime it crumbles and cracks.



Yes let Roscoe Jenkins go home. But you know what, I won't take him to my home. I'd just drop him off at his place and leave him there. OK! Now I'm exaggerating. I would rather have my own family resemble "Dan In Real Life" than in this one, because this one just doesn't give me a resemblance.