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afq2846

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You know there is a problem when a movie when someone is pictured as a star of a movie and he is only in the movie for around 20-30 mins. Yes I am talking about katt williams. This movie tells the story of two men who need money so they decide to...
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You know there is a problem when a movie when someone is pictured as a star of a movie and he is only in the movie for around 20-30 mins. Yes I am talking about katt williams. This movie tells the story of two men who need money so they decide to rob a church. As they are going about to robbing the church they find a bunch of people in the church so they take them hostage. Then all silliness ensues which makes the movie bad. There is not much of a comedy here with the bulk of the funny scenes being in the ads. I am sure williams is funny in his comedy act but not here. He is not given enough to go with. Morgan is funny but in an annoying way so eventually he just becomes annoying. Cube plays the straight man to morgan's silliness. Acting here is sparse as is the plot. I really cannot reccommend this movie unless you think the ads for this movie are hilarious.

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Posted may 11, 2008 12:46 am pt

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Too funny! How you gone rob a church which has been robbed already and the first thief is on the phone calling the cops on the second pair of thieves? lol

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Posted mar 16, 2008 12:38 pm pt

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I thought that this movie was pretty good. I love Ice Cube and Katt Williams. A good comedy with a few touching moments.

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Posted feb 1, 2008 3:37 am pt

• [+] ReelViews
  
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  The movie as a whole is pleasant, generally satisfying, and has a heart as big as its funny bone. For an early January movie, this is sometimes as good as it gets.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Village Voice
  
  60
  At first, the movie is over-anxious--trying too hard to squeeze out the laughs, pump up the soundtrack, ingratiate itself with the audience--and the straining is abrasive. But once Talbert gets distracted by keeping the plot clunking along, the comedy eases into relaxed sideline banter.

  by Nick Pinkerton | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  50
  The movie's total lack of focus and its unimpressive script should render it totally unwatchable. Weirdly, that doesn't quite happen. There's something endearing about these characters.

  by Jessica Reaves | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  50
  Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan are the nominal stars of First Sunday, but it's Katt Williams who steals the show in this by turns trite and mildly amusing B-comedy.

  by Ann Hornaday | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  First Sunday sometimes feels more like a script read-through than like an actual movie, but its warmth is likely to carry you through the stretches of cliché and tedium.

  by A.O. Scott | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Onion (A.V. Club)
  
  50
  A corny yet unexpectedly moving scene in which Morgan is moved to tears by Loretta Devine's simple kindness helps make the film's shift into inspirational drama far more palatable than it really has any right to be.

  by Nathan Rabin | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  50
  This heist comedy has a hackneyed introduction, and its feel-good ending lacks credibility, but the big, funny chunk in the middle marks writer-director-producer David E. Talbert as a talent to watch.

  by Andrea Gronvall | Read Full Review »
• [+] Baltimore Sun
  
  50
  The movie is so confused about itself that it comes across as toneless, a bunch of characters wandering around in a story no one is controlling.

  by Chris Kaltenbach | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  50
  Though Ice Cube and Morgan should make an ideal team, neither seems particularly comfortable grappling with Talbert's amateurish script. Most of the laughs, in fact, come from the strong supporting cast, led by a high-energy Williams and the unflappable Devine.

  by Elizabeth Weitzman | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  50
  The second half of the film is much funnier and warmer than the first, but the movie is still difficult to recommend.

  by Peter Hartlaub | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  50
  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.

  by Chris Nashawaty | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
  40
  First Sunday is simply a case of wasting gifted performers on material that feels slapped together and unshaped.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Austin Chronicle
  
  40
  Tyler Perry has already been here and done that to such a degree that this particular cinematic field should now be plowed under and salted so that nothing might grow thereupon forevermore. Amen.

  by Marc Savlov | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  40
  It plods along at a sluggard's pace through a weak premise with crude execution and even cruder characters to arrive at an unearned sentimental ending.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  40
  A near-claustrophobic comedy that manages to be both predictable and preachy. Solid actors in supporting roles offer minor redemption.

  by Brian Lowry | Read Full Review »