Customer Reviews
My mom loved this movie!!! 
2008-04-09
My mom loves this film. She watches every night and cracks up everytime. It's the dead fathers shoes.
Great Wholesome Family Comedy 2007-10-07
I absolutely loved this movie. It is extremely funny (and this is comming from someone who doesn't have a sense of humor, according to my family). It is a great movie that you can enjoy with the family. The story line is very simple but the commedy is superve and you will certainly laugh throughout the entire movie. Do not let other reviewers discourage you. Buy this movie, you will love it.
"Are my kids drivin' you crazy?".........."Oh, no, honey; we locked them outside." 
2007-01-25
Weddings and funerals always seem to bring out the worst in some families. The Slocum family is no exception, all together in this small Southern town named Lula all these half-cocked personalities involved, and you know you're in for a major twister. I have seen this movie numerous times and it still gets me. Director Doug McHenry (Jason's Lyric) gets up close on these people and even though doesn't break any ground in filmmaking; it is darkly funny and simple.
It starts off with Whoopi Goldberg who plays Mamma Ray, a woman whose "mean and surly" husband, Bud, drops dead at the dinner table. Her large and dysfunctional family gathers for his funeral and brings all their personal baggage with them. Eldest Son Ray Bud (LL Cool J) never liked his dad and is angry at his brother Junior (Anthony Anderson) for being a dreaming bum. Ray Bud's wife Lucille hides her unhappiness behind pills and soothing words. Junior's marriage to his childhood sweetheart, Charise (Jada Pinkett), is falling apart due to poverty, infidelity, and general unpleasantness. Bud's sister Marguerite, a bible-thumping Baptist, comes to comfort Mamma Ray (Loretta Devine) but instead fights with her own "demon" son, Royce (Darius McCrary). All problems may be predictably solved in the end but watching the destruction and salvation of the all these relationships endlessly entertained me.
What lifted this movie above the level of sitcom was the performances, particularly Whoopi Goldberg's. She is divine in this film, portraying a strong woman of few words but great strength and dignity. Anthony Anderson is also delightful and shows a greater range than he has in "Exit Wounds" or "Romeo Must Die." His scene where he explains why he cheated on his wife is a wonderful moment of understated sadness. It is such moments balanced with his usual high-energy comedy that makes his performance so strong. Loretta Devine and Darius McCrary work together extremely well as bickering mother and son and provide the biggest laughs of the film. McCrary also has some nice serious moments and manages to flush out a pretty standard bad-boy-with-a-heart role.
All the performances were strong and never flinched from honestly showing the character or situation. There are some really ugly people and circumstances in the film and they are not sugar-coated which makes them all the more funny or frightening to watch.
Kingdon Come DVD 2007-01-18
This was a very funny movie. Not too many movies make me really laugh, but this one did. And it has a good moral ending, which you don't see very often.
Kingdom Come 2006-04-02
This movie is another that I think you may love or hate. But it's one that is SO funny to me. One I'll watch over and over. I know full well that funerals aren't supposed to be funny, but the family and the people around them-crap you can't help but laugh! I've never seen Jada Pinkett Smith in a part quite like this, it was really quite hillarious. The cast is full of people everyone knows!
A favorite 2006-02-22
When her husband keels over from a stroke, Raynelle Slocumb (Whoopi Goldberg) calls the entire clan together to remember their dearly departed. Family tensions reach a comedic boil as the wildly dysfunctional Slocumbs reunite under one roof, including Ray
A gentle look at mourning 2006-02-09
The movie begins with "death" [of actress Whoopi Goldberg's husband ] , and is its entire theme:and is about all types of situations that can happen "when chaotic clan reunite" or are confined in close spaces with one another for more time than just a "do drop by" ;it softens for the fiction at least the reason they're there "to pay their last repects"..Its fine cast lead by actor/comedian Anthony Anderson make it believable,and even in its taudy way(poignant)& a little humorous and the decision of actress Loretta Devine's son to quit being a "prodical son" and to have verses from the prophet "Isaiah" be replaced with verses from "Psalms" adds to the "subdued scenes" near the end of the movie "Kingdom Come",which concludes with an epilogue of "still life" photos with comments just before the movie credits are shown.
Hilarious for me! 2005-09-13
I'm majoring in child and family development and stumbled across this movie at 2 in the morning. I had never heard of the movie, but laughed myself silly. I could write an 8 page paper over the dysfunctions and strengths of this family! This cast consists of many well known individuals. My favorite part had to have been when the Rev. coped with the after effects of his dinner from the previous evening while performing the funeral. Much of the this movie reminded me of Nutty Professor with so much chaos in that family. For our family, this is one that we'll purchase on DVD and watch time and time again!
Down Home Funny 2005-08-29
It is a simple, fairly clean comedy. I enjoy movies that I can let all of my children watch without hoping that the language and sexual content is accurately rated.
Funny drama, althogh i didn't get the point of this movie 2004-05-10
LL, Jada, Fox and Goldberg are good, not great, but good in this family reunion 'Dramedy' (Drama+Comedy), when a family member dies, the whole family reunite, each with a story to unfold and unfinished business to be taken care of. This movie is ok in my book, had no bad parts and the cast is great, so if you like poignient dramas, it don't get any better than Kingdom Come.
