Family Reunion: The Movie (Video 2003) Poster

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10/10
I'm probably the only person who owns this DVD
blackatom21 May 2007
Today at we were looking for a number of films.. namely Charlie Chaplin movies and Yojimbo, but what did we walk away from the store with? Family Reunion: The movie! It wasn't intentional.. we just saw the poster for this movie. Seeing the poster for this movie.. how could you not want to see it? We laughed for thirty straight minutes.. but then we decided we'd rather die with our money than waste it on Family Reunion: The movie, and went to eat dinner.

It was at the restaurant where we started talking about the movie again, and looked at a picture on my camera phone that I had taken of the movie cover. This is when we decided that we must own this movie.. just for the heck of it, so we busted our butts to get back to the store before it closed -- because where the hell else are you going to find this movie?-- and had our fingers crossed that no one else had bought it since we'd been there. But, we did buy it, and we watched it.

On the way home from the mall we spent about an hour talking about how this movie could be. From the back we knew that a character's name was "Pimpie" and that a main character probably grilled in the movie.. We were right.

This film is amazing!
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10/10
This is comedy of epic skill
MsSmutPeddler14 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
This film is attempting to land itself into Tyler Perry territory, but in reality is more like a John Waters film from the 70's. The Director may be insulted by that statement, but I LOVED this movie. It tells the story of a couple with a family at odds. Ringworm Black and his wife Gertrude Best hold an annual family reunion, and the year prior Gerts mother got in a fist fight with Ring's brother and the two families are at war. Now at this point I should tell you that Red Grant not only wrote and directed this gong show, but he stars in it as Ringworm and... wait...wait for it.. Ringworm's brother "Snake", in what is essentially a light skinned man wearing a lot of bronzer. Yep, this movie has a black guy in black-face.

The film spends an hour introducing all the family, a menagerie of shallow characters that resemble the cast of a badly written sketch comedy show, and then tries to get dramatic and have heart.

Which is great considering that the film includes a 5 min scene of a guy with violent diarrhea, a woman beating a man with her walker, a grandfather getting off watching 1-900 ads, 3 KKK members get beat up by a minister, the sexualization of potato salad and a guy named Ringworm.

Viva la Family Reunion "The movie" I can't even handle how great the cover of this movie is.........
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I movie was amazing
kay4production12 June 2008
I really enjoyed this movie are there anymore like it I can rent? I really enjoyed the characters, the acting and the set design. Will there be a Family Reunion part 2? If so I am sure it will be a hit. I really enjoyed the two big boy and Bebe drake she is one of my favorite actresses. I think the movie could have had more music the score was fine but the sound track was so good it let me wanting more. Does anyone know where I can get a copy on the music? This movie is definitely a sleeper I am surprised that it wasn't theatrically released. I think there might have been a platform release because I remember seeing the title in the movie theater. This move would have been perfect on the big screen.
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