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"First Sunday" - DVD Review
REVIEWED BY Domenic Padulo
First Sunday is the type of movie so dumb, so relentlessly pointless and lazy, that it makes real film criticism like you would use to discuss a legitimate movie irrelevant. More a bad hip-hop skit than anything else, this little urban comedy hardly deserves the words I (or any other critic) has for it.

To put things quite simply, First Sunday is about some homies who end up in some bad shit. Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play two down-on-their luck thieves that can't find straight work, and decide to rob a church. While this premise may have the potential to be a cunning social satire (but probably not), the movie definitely does not live up to it.

First Sunday is perhaps the worst movie I've had to review in quite some time, and I wish it on no one. This is nothing but a procession of stale race and weed jokes, and quite frankly, audiences deserve smarter. I've come to expect this kind of shit from Ice Cube despite the fact that I absolutely love Three Kings, but I'm greatly surprised by Morgan's participation in this drivel. He's absolutely brilliant on "30 Rock," my pick for one of the funniest shows on TV, and while writer/director Dave Talbert seems to have been trying to channel the same sense of humor, all of his jokes fall flat. Sure Morgan's voice may be hysterical enough on its own, but without a decent script, his stupidity isn't nearly as smart. Come to think of it, nothing about this movie is smart. You'd probably have a more fun time getting a tetanus shot.

As far as special features go, First Sunday seems to be pretty loaded, but I didn't watch them because I don't particularly hate myself at the moment.

I doubt you need me to tell you this, but First Sunday is a movie to avoid. You have probably already seen it a hundred times over a hundred different titles, and most definitely do not need to say it again. If you for some demented reason still feel the need to see this, I'm sure it will be on TBS soon enough.