Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Konterr Brilliant and touching

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Whitech It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

Jackie Toye It's about Family (anyone's Family) and it's Funny. I watch it at least once a Quarter and quote lines from it weekly. "You know what it is to watch something you love, just shrivel up and die" ... Jada was Priceless. Vivica, Whoopi, LL Cool J, Anthony Anderson, Toni Braxton, forgetting some of the "real names" but Aunt Maugarite (trying hard NOT to be her, personally ... hahaha), Royce and Floyd the Mechanic. Oh and Cedric the Entertainer. All Star Class i my book and just a Great Movie about people to keep you sane as you live your life with them and yourself, of course. Please buy a copy today. (just a personal recommendation)

IrockGswift LL Cool J did a brilliant performance in this movie by showing family leadership and keeping everyone civilized. This movie describes an abundance of black families getting together for a funeral where there's making decisions of where to bury the body and what is to be put on the tombstone. As for most families there are long time grudges,infidelity,and irresponsibilities. This movie describes them all. Kingdom Come is a good movie to watch. There are some various humorous situations.

MovieMusings In watching this film, I at first wanted to choke on the stereotypical black depictions - the patient quiet matriarch with the belligerent husband; the dysfunctional family with all kinds of problems; the early 20s male with no ambition; the single mothers struggling to make something of their kids without the connections to move them along; the alcohol-related problems; the young people playing adults before they're really ready, pumping out babies etc., etc.Then, I saw through it, and really appreciated an unglamorous "real" family with real-life problems (those issues do exist, whether they are taken on by or inflicted upon people). Whoopie Goldberg plays the straight character this time, while everyone around her is crazy. Her first-born kind of keys in on this quiet strength and reluctantly has to stand up despite his own issues and attempt to bring some semblance of order to the proceedings.MattyMatt4ever's review can provide plenty more insight into why this film works. I can't go so far as to say it's must-see material, but if you are reading these reviews because you were thinking of watching it, then I'd say the negative reviews may mislead you more than the positive reviews - no movie is for everyone, but this film is, in my opinion, much better than the negative reviews might suggest. I quite enjoyed and appreciated it, and would never feel I wasted my money in renting it, or my time in watching it.

Superwonderscope High Expectations-Lower than low results. Just another cute-family-movie that makes me wanna yell 'LAST REEL, PLEAAAAAAAASE' every couple of minutes.I just don't get how people like Whoopi and Loretta could read, enjoy and accept such a script suffering of terminal cuteness. What is it all about? That african american women are born to suffer, bring babies to the world, clean up the mess their husband is doing and go to church and pray god, sing gospel (of course, every african american woman sings gospel). That african american men are born to be pathetic losers waiting for wellfare, prison or being unfaithful to their wives, being alcoholic,etc,etc... wait... is this being human? nah. The script doesn't know where to go so it makes every character having something bad to confess or to suffer from. Something's got to happen to them in order to keep the audience awake. Which I hardly did here.So Loretta knows how to scream. So Whoopi can be pouty. LL Cool just looks at everyone, his face screaming "look, I can act like an alcoholic" but it still doesn't work. Toni Braxton is, well, Toni Braxton. And Jada is, hum,well, like what she's been doing these past few years...her best part being Scream 2, I guess. These characters are just one-dimensonial and caricatures of what human beings really are. And this happy end where everyone forgives everyone and all is good in the end, right? Yuck. I remember a time where a director such as Charles Burnett was really directing and having a point of view.There is nothing wrong doing a family movie but a movie that looks like a tv movie should stay where it belongs : on tv. No swearing (that's BAD), no sex (that's WORSE), God is good, family is good, going to church is good, not going is bad : the character that dies wasn't going and keeping poor Whoopi out of it! No wonder he's considered so mean by almost everyone! That is, I guess, the whole point of the movie.Being a believer -which I'm not- is probably a great thing. To give a moralizing point of view is sickening. To achieve such a low quality in movie making is beyond redemption. Go rent KILLER OF SHEEP or JESUS OF MONTREAL.This movie is a just another turkey stuffed with so many clichés that the hoven is about to explode before Thanksgiving.Superwonderscope says 1