For a movie that's filled with so many talented comedians, it's shocking that First Sunday is only sporadically funny.
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01/14/08
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $37,931,869
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
The film somehow ends with religious conversions that leave out any mention of the Almighty.
01/10/08
Predictable crime comedy has some iffy content.
01/15/08
Even as the film's most stereotypical figure, stand-up comic Katt Williams manages to be the only consistently funny character in this uninspired inspirational comedy.
01/11/08
While not all of the jokes work (in fact, some of them misfire badly), there are enough low-key chuckles to retain a light tone.
01/10/08
In addition to the faulty premise, which effortlessly lends itself to writer / director David E. Talbert's preachy agenda, the movie just plain isn't funny.
01/10/08
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
The film, written and directed by urban theater circuit playwright David E. Talbert, is far from polished, but it has a rambunctious energy that's hard to resist.
01/11/08
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
Seasoned 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
Who wants reality and a hollow inspirational message after a setup promising madcap laughs?
01/11/08
Ice Cube's franchising of the weekdays continues with First Sunday.
01/17/08
If there's a God, First Sunday will be the last of its kind for Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan, who deserve better than this wannabe screwball comedy about small-time crooks knocking over a church.
01/11/08
Everything here is overly simplified for easy digestion -- dialogue, jokes, characterization, storyline, and payoff
01/10/08
Perhaps 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 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.
01/10/08
Ice Cube has been taking a lot of heat in recent years for abandoning his tough guy image in exchange for Hollywood stardom, and First Sunday appears to be a compromise.
01/11/08
It tries far too hard and achieves far too little. The laughs it causes are guilty ones, but not that guilty, because there aren’t that many.
01/11/08
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
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.
01/04/08
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