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Original Kings of Comedy, The
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for language and sex related humor
Starring
Cedric the Entertainer,
Steve Harvey,
D.L. Hughley,
and
Bernie Mac
Concert film that captures segments of "Kings of Comedy," a tour running from 1997-1999.
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Spike Lee
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: February 27, 2001
Video: February 27, 2001
Theatrical: August 18, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
115 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Not only exhilarating and cathartic. It's too funny to be ignored.
90
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
Their comedy gives audiences that have never seen anything like it a hilarious window on a new world.
90
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Lee performs magic. He's preserved and expanded the experience of an adrenaline-pumping, uproarious night of racism-, classism-, and sexism-subverting humor.
90
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Turns a hysterical night of African-American humor into the hottest little picture of the summer.
90
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A dynamite concert film.
90
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
A tornado of laughs based on the black experience as lived by these four insightful jokers, instead of as filtered through the Hollywood formula.
88
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
It's not so much good material as divinely inspired delivery.
88
USA Today
Mike Clark
Both the material and the way it's delivered by the movie's comic quartet are so funny.
80
Dallas Observer
Bill Gallo
A fresh, intimate, gloriously unpolished performance film that measures up to the classics of the genre.
80
Film.com
Ernest Hardy
It's a very funny film, one of the most enjoyable of the summer.
80
Variety
Scott Foundas
Consistently hilarious.
80
LA Weekly
Paul Malcolm
Both funny and furious -- on why black people are different from white people.
80
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A decidedly grown-up affair.
78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The most articulate and entertaining commentary on racial differences to have come down the pike in quite a while.
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
Can make a person sick in two ways at once -- through its lowdown raunch and through the spasms of laughter that use stomach muscles one might not have known existed.
75
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
Crassly funny passages.
75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Side-splitting concert film.
75
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Exuberant, often hilarious.
75
Baltimore Sun
Ann Hornaday
These guys are funny.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Doesn't have the theatrical subtext or, let it be said, the genius of Richard Pryor.
75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
This picture won't attract white audiences. I doubt that blacks would flock to a Jerry Seinfeld concert film. But we'd all get along better if we realized we had the right to laugh at each other's foibles
75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Racy, obscene, spirited and infectious.
70
Film.com
Gemma Files
A two-hour slice --of comedy pie.
70
Village Voice
Gary Dauphin
Simultaneously hilarious and reprehensible.
67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
The routines are charged, even between jokes, with anticipatory hilarity.
65
Mr. Showbiz
Kevin Maynard
Gets to the funny bone, but it could've cut deeper.
63
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Unashamedly vulgar and exuberantly politically incorrect.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
One funny movie - for at least half the time.
55
TNT RoughCut
Susannah Breslin
Solidly entertaining if not remarkably innovative.
50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Sometimes they're truly hilarious; sometimes they're lazy enough to milk laughs from scattershot vulgarity.
30
TV Guide
Steve Simels
The relentlessly self-congratulatory tone is oppressive.
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