Synopsis
When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep things real, he decides to throw a barbeque at his place -- just like the ones his family used to have. But when you have new and old friends, family, agents, and product reps in the same house, things are bound to get crazy.
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Cast
- Ja RuleBling Bling
- Tim MeadowsLeroy
- Jenifer LewisLady Em
- Quran PenderTodd Andersen (as Storm P)
- Meagan GoodBrittany
- Farrah FawcettMrs. Crowley
- Eve Jihan Jeffers CooperBecky
- Danny GloverJudge Crowley
- Queen LatifahSecurity Guard
- Jonathan SilvermanWes
Recommandations
- 40
The New York Times
Wants to be an outdoor, barbecue-grilled "Barbershop" but lacks the pungency and honesty of its prototype. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Good-natured but it's a dud. - 30
Village Voice
Eventually, 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." - 25
New York Daily News
There isn't a genuine laugh or a character who isn't a stereotype in The Cookout, a lifeless comedy featuring a cast of familiar faces who must have needed the paycheck. - 25
Entertainment Weekly
Sends comedy backward in time, and we're in the 1970s, ethno-sitcom style: These Andersons in their out-of-date white, snooty gated community apparently confuse themselves with their forebears on The Jeffersons. - 20
TV Guide Magazine
It took a village of screenwriters and story creators - including costar Queen Latifah and first-time director Lance Rivera - to cram just about every imaginable stereotype about African-Americans and white people ever conceived into this short, unappetizing comedy. - 20
Variety
Loosely plotted and wildly uneven farce. - 20
The A.V. Club
Gives virtually every cast member a shot at humiliation.
