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2004
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Positive Reviews
2
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
1.6
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1.5
Seemingly assembled from ideas on the cutting room floor of a cancelled sitcom.
Av Club
3.0
Todds payday apparently sends comedy backward in time, and were in the 1970s, ethno sitcom style.
EW
0.5
Everything else here from the gross caricatures to the so called comic mayhem is sour to taste.
1.3
A lifeless comedy featuring a cast of familiar faces who must have needed the paycheck.
Ny Daily News
1.5
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 Ma ..
Village Voice
2.0
Shes a strong, respectable presence in a movie that doesnt deserve her.
Eric Ds Nider
2.0
Director Lance Rivera has never directed a movie before, and he doesnt start here.
News Review
4.5
It does provide some true laughs and, incredibly, some real humanity.
Film Journal International ..
1.3
Danny Glover gets high In this inept circus Danny Glover, star of Mandela and Operation Dumbo Drop, and elder statesman of all things dignified Well, ..
Boston
2.0
Of course, the fact that the judge isnt festooned with tons of jewelry and doesnt indulge in ghetto speak means he doesnt really count.
Mountain X
1.3
The very definition of an easy target and, in all fairness, it deserves every last bit of criticism.
Mr Brown Movies
1.9
The Cookout holds a smug, mean spirited undercurrent, made all the more rotten by an attempted sincerity as false as a set of dentures.
The Movie Boy
0.5
There may be someone in the audience who goes into hysterics at the mere sight of a babys diaper soaked through with ****, but, if so, I hope never to ..
Pajiba
1.3
It took a village of screenwriters and story creators ... to cram just about every imaginable stereotype about African Americans and white people ever ..
Movies Tv Guide
1.5
Rivera and a host of screenwriters were apparently as cowed by Lady Em as Todd; she sucks up much of the screen time, and admirable though her family ..
La Weekly
2.0
The cast is, for the most part, fun, and the story addresses themes of family togetherness and humility in a way that wont make you gag.
Guide Live
1.3
The actual get together is more like soggy leftovers served with cheap laughs and even cheaper sentiment.
Freep
2.5
Plenty of action and confusion in this wild story that culminates in a cookout.
Entertainment Spectrum
1.5
This is one more entry in the long list of urban comedies that dish out the kind of humor that would probably spark protests if the filmmakers werent ..
James Sanford on Film
1.5
Director Lance Rivera raises some legitimate questions about moving up versus selling out and the commodification of professional athletes, but he cou ..
Boston Phoenix
2.5
A slow build up to the actual cookout takes the punch out of the cast of colorful characters.
Boston Herald
0.0
Its low comedy and its crudely made. But thats no excuse for it being dull.
Las Vegas Mercury
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