There's his brother Otis (Michael Clarke Duncan), who has two obese children and likes to beat the crap out of his brother. Dad doesn't seem to like R.J. much, and even mom purposely calls her son's girlfriend "Blanca" out of some deep-seated spite.

Dad's affection has always been aimed at R.J.'s cousin Clyde (Cedric the Entertainer), who was taken in by the Jenkins family as a kid and has gone on to run a successful car dealership chain. Then again, neither R.J. nor Bianca is much better in comparison. Bianca is outright appalled that R.J.'s given name is Roscoe, not to mention her continuous scheming and attempts to gain attention no matter what's happening around her. Bianca, of course, is supposed to unappealing, but how can we think that when everyone surrounding her is just the same?

And what of R.J.? Well, he's a whiny, sniveling sort of man who acts like a little kid, whether it's trying to compete with Clyde for the affection of his dad or his high school crush Lucinda (Nicole Ari Parker), whom he's yet to get over and whom Clyde has brought to the party just to continue his and R.J.'s feud. The whole thing comes to a head at the running of the family's traditional obstacle course, during which R.J. and Clyde knock down their cousins, nieces, and nephews and R.J. abandons his helpless son just to prove a point.

Up until then, Lee assaults us with setups with no punchlines and augments them with the continuing spitefulness of his characters. R.J. has a 25-year-old dog that knocks him over (and later violates Bianca's little dog in that weird scene I mentioned earlier). A skunk sprays him in the face while he's sleeping on the porch. He gets into fistfights with Otis, Clyde, and even Betty. There are probably jokes somewhere in this familiar mess, but Lee certainly doesn't know where they are.

The movie is irritating, awkward, and mean-spirited, especially in R.J.'s late shipping off of Bianca, Reggie's general nature, Betty, and, actually, the rest of the folks in the movie, too. Perhaps the most distasteful part of Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins comes in the finale, when, after all the muck, it tries to force a sappy, dishonest piece of schmaltz at the end. Ugh. Just ugh.