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First Sunday (2008)

Reviewed by Chris Nashawaty | Jan 16, 2008

Chris Nashawaty

Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column

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Details Release Date: Jan 11, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Genres: Comedy, Crime; With: Ice Cube, Tracy Morgan and Katt Williams

Image credit: Tony Rivetti Jr.

LET US PREY Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan plan to rob a local church in the not exactly heavenly comedy First Sunday

Like Cheech & Chong minus the weed, Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play a couple of broke Baltimore dim bulbs who run afoul of a posse of Jamaican gangsters, then hatch a desperate scheme to stick up a local church to get out of hock in First Sunday. Naturally, their gospel-spouting hostages (including Loretta Devine and stand-up comic Katt Williams) make the two screwups eventually see the light. If Tyler Perry ever wanted to turn Dog Day Afternoon into a treacly after-school special, it would probably end up looking a lot like this. C

Originally posted Jan 16, 2008 Published in issue #975 Jan 25, 2008 Order article reprints

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