Bam Bam & Celeste
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Actor: Alan Cumming, Elaine Hendrix, Margaret ChoBrand: BAM BAM & CELESTE (DVD MOVIE)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-08-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: WOLFE VIDEO
Movie Reviews of Bam Bam & Celeste
Movie Review: Dark Humor that's not funny
Summary: 2 Stars
I could barely crack a smile during this celebration of hatefulness and meanness directed toward a Korean-American girl and her gay African-American friend.
Evidently they are high school outcasts (so weren't most of us) and then they go on a pilgramidge to New York to be on a makeover "reality" TV show (hosted by another mean person) during which they run into many hateful people along the way.
Why this would be considered funny is a mystery to me. It's not fun, it's not insightful, it's poorly paced, laughily "acted," and insulting to people in general. (Granted, humanity deserves insulting periodically, but this piece portrays everyone as a moron.)
If you're a hard-core Cho fan, I suppose this might be interesting, but I'd steer clear of this clunker. It's good moments are few.
Summary of Bam Bam & Celeste
Margaret Cho cheers on social outcasts in the charming comedy Bam-Bam & Celeste. Dictator-obsessed punkette Celeste (stand-up comedienne Cho, who also wrote the screenplay) and her gay hairdresser "boyfriend" Bam-Bam (Bruce Daniels, Can't Stop Dancing) flee the Illinois town where they've been taunted and harassed all their lives, hoping to get on a makeover show in New York called Trading Faces. Like all cinematic road trips, this is a journey of self-discovery, in which Celeste learns to love herself for herself--but though the conclusion is no surprise, getting there is offbeat and fun, with oddball episodes featuring "the lesbian lone ranger" (Jane Lynch, The 40 Year Old Virgin), a racist convenience-store clerk (Danny Hoch, Whiteboyz), and Bam-Bam and Celeste's final confrontation with their high school nemeses turned beauty-salon moguls. The day is saved in the end by Celeste's mother, also played by Cho--basically playing her own mother, as she does in her stand-up act. Alan Cumming (The Anniversary Party) plays Celeste's e-mail pal who happens to work on Trading Faces, while John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) is the show's snooty host. The bubbly camp of Bam-Bam & Celeste doesn't feel forced or insular, but like an honest celebration of misfit culture and blazing one's own trail. A loose, silly, but enjoyable movie. --Bret FetzerCeleste (Margaret Cho) and Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels) are best friends still stuck in the white bread Midwest hometown where they grew up. Celeste lives at home with her out-of-touch Mommy (also played by Cho) and has retained her outcast status since high school. She and Bam Bam are free-spirited rejects in a town where looking or dressing differently is perpetually uncool.Shunned on a good day and taunted on a bad one the only thing Bam Bam and Celeste have is each other. They both feel life is passing them by. After seeing an ad for a contestant search for TRADING FACES a reality makeover show in N.Y. they decide to follow their dreams to New York City.Their yellow brick road to the Big Apple is strewn with potential disasters and comical crises as they encounter thugs survivalists racists and a lesbian Lone Ranger played with ballsy charm by Jane Lynch (40-Year Old Virgin Best in Show) and other roadside distractions before finally reaching The City. They arrive only to find their hometown high-school nemeses now the style dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage sitting in judgment at TRADING FACES.System Requirements:Run Time: 85 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: UNRATED UPC: 754703762887 Manufacturer No: WOL4476D
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