The Cookout PG-13

The Cookout
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  • Rated: PG-13
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 18, 2005
  • Originally Released: 2004
  • Label: Lions Gate

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 7,335
A painfully unfunny, would-be comedy.
Hollywood Reporter
Sep 9, 2004
Rating: 1/5 -- 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.
Cinema em Cena
Feb 9, 2005
The pointlessness of The Cookout exudes a modicum of charm, but the simple-minded mess still lacks the wit and moral weight of an episode of Family Matters. Full Review
Village Voice
Sep 7, 2004
Proceeds at a rambling pace without developing much in the way of comic momentum or scoring many laugh-out-loud high points.
Variety
Sep 7, 2004
Rating: 1/4 -- The very definition of an easy target--and, in all fairness, it deserves every last bit of criticism. Full Review
TheMovieReport.com
Jan 8, 2010
Rating: D -- Todd's payday apparently sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style. Full Review
Entertainment Weekly
Sep 9, 2004
Rating: 1/4 -- ...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.
TheWorldJournal.com
Jan 19, 2005

Product Description:

A Rutgers University star player, Todd Andrews (Storm P), is picked first in the NBA draft and under the manipulation of his hot, gold-digging girlfriend (Meagan Good) he starts living large, replete with big house in a snobby, gated community. This doesn't go over well with his down-to-earth mom (Jenifer Lewis), who fears her boy will lose track of his roots. At any rate, it's time for the annual family cookout, and Todd decides to have it at his new digs, bringing in a caravan of eccentric family members and arousing the ire of the gate security guard (Queen Latifah). Plunging through a lot of sticky racial issues, this comedy manages to address concerns like the transition of African American culture and community, and to stay very loose and funny at the same time. Farrah Fawcett is good as the racist wife of a retired judge (Danny Glover) whom she doesn't seem to realize is African American himself (they're the angry neighbors). Rapper Ja Rule plays the requisite villainous thug from the old neighborhood determined to ride Todd's coattails to big money via some stolen sneakers. The large cast is generally inspired, but Lewis is the big standout here, transcending what could have been just another "big momma" stereotype by mixing fierce intelligence and wit with warmhearted sass. Latifah is also hilarious as the racial-profiling rent-a-cop; she also produced and co-wrote the original story.

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  • Sales Rank: 52,657
  • UPC: 031398168294
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