First Sunday (2008)

.5/4

This movie fails as a comedy, a drama, a morality play, and as a coherent motion picture. Awful stuff!

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08/26/08

1/5

If it was not for Morgan's goofy character or Katt Williams, I would be giving this movie a zero.

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05/17/08

N/A

Devilish satire outing felons who come in gaudy three piece suits too, a sweltering church 'hotter than Satan's toenails' and Sunday sermon sidebars that all the rest makes go down easy.

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05/03/08

2/5

The missing-church-funds subplot will be easily figured out by any four year old, but it winds up being a McGuffin anyway.

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05/01/08

1/5

With his movie debut, Talbert plays to his established audience, the redemption message riding roughshod over everything, even such trifling concerns as character consistency and continuity.

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03/28/08

1/5

Tired, unfunny comedy with Ice Cube as a bungling crook.

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03/28/08

1/5

The least funny man ever to make a career in comedy movies, Ice Cube hauls his sullen mug back in front of the cameras for the execrable First Sunday.

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03/28/08

3/5

Cube's maudlin, overly precious relationship with his son hits a few sour notes, but Morgan's rubbery, half-crazy Leejohn always drags the film back into its manic, cartoony groove.

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03/28/08

2/5

On your own day of judgement, select a better film from the listings.

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03/28/08

2/5

Loretta Devine and Olivia Cole shine out as veteran members of the flock, but even their class combined is no saving grace.

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03/28/08

N/A

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.

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03/28/08

2/6

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.

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03/28/08

2.5/4

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.

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02/24/08

1/4

Getting religion in the end is no excuse for a parade of bad taste.

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02/22/08

1/4

Ice Cube is now Public Enemy Number Fun, although First Sunday is only fun if you're in dire need of a modernist urban take on the strain of comedy Abbott and Costello used to practice, which, let's be honest, wasn't that funny to begin with.

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02/01/08

1/5

Writer-director David E. Talbert has a fine cast...but he lets them down with a wretched, amateurish script...

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01/17/08

N/A

Ice Cube's franchising of the weekdays continues with First Sunday.

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01/17/08

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First Sunday isn’t the most refined moviemaking you’ll ever see, but it gives 2008 cinema a perfectly humane start.

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01/16/08

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Combining the hijinks of the Friday series with the spiritual bent of Tyler Perry's work seems like an obvious move. For producer/star Ice Cube, it's also a dishonest one.

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01/15/08