Ralph's Movie Reviews: DAVE CHAPELLE’S BLOCK PARTY

Monday, March 6, 2006

DAVE CHAPELLE’S BLOCK PARTY

Concert film

PRINCIPAL CAST MEMBERS
Dave Chappelle: comedian and sometime-organiser
Mos Def
Talib Kweli
Dead Prez
Kanye West
Common
Erykah Badu
Jill Scott
Cody Chesnutt
John Legend
The Roots
Fugees

REVIEW
How much you will enjoy this film is probably best measured by how many of the cast members listed above you can recognise and/or really like. In my case, only the top two were even vaguely familiar to me since I’m not a fan of hip-hop music.

The first half-hour of seeing how this rap concert in Brooklyn was organised was of some interest. But the rest of the movie is just one act after the other of “songs” with expletive-laden lyrics all having the monotonous same beat. Bit of a bore really.

CLASSIFICATION

for profanity (lots and lots of it)

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my ratings system

I've always thought that telling too much about a movie or warning someone about a "twist" at the end deprives the person the pleasure of seeing it as it unfolds, so I don’t do it. You may not always agree with my rating of course, but at least it is an unbiased opinion unlike some of the full time professional reviewers who are on the studio’s payroll.

A few movies you won’t see any review from me:

Scary movies: I’m the world’s biggest chicken and just hate getting the crap scared out of me. I can handle an unexpected door slam, that kind of thing, but a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat…not for me. Sorry.
Movies geared to the young teen and pre-teen crowd with dialog comprising mostly of crude remarks, awful jokes and lots of rude, socially unacceptable body noises. "The Spy that Shagged Me" comes to mind. (I wonder if the kids know what the British verb to shag someone really means? They probably do; I bet you it’s the parents who haven’t a clue).
Sometimes Hollywood gets on a roll and they produce a series of movies that are all very much alike. For example movies about the CIA were very popular and so we had The Bourne Identity and Bad Company and The Sum of All Fears. They all had the same basic theme and it becomes repetitive. I will see some, but not all of them.

FYI this is my rating system:

0 stars = Terrible: so bad it’s not worth talking about; in fact, I’d pay you not to go
= Lousy: I actually got up and walked out before the end it was just that bad (no kidding)
= Not so good: thought about walking out but hung in just in case it got better (but it didn’t)
= A so-so good movie: I enjoyed it somewhat but wasn’t all that crazy about it
= A really good movie: I recommend seeing it
= An excellent movie you just got to see! I suggest you put it on your "To Do List" it’s that good.

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