Chris Rock - Never Scared
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Movie Reviews of Chris Rock - Never Scared
Movie Review: funny, funny, funny
Summary: 5 Stars
If you like Chris Rock, then you have to get this as it's funny.Movie Review: Chris Rock- Never Scared
Summary: 5 Stars
With a Chris Rock Video; I am never disappointed. Loved it!Movie Review: Will definitely make you laugh, think, and wiser
Summary: 4 Stars
Chris Rock has excellent delivery and uses the right compbination of truth, exaggeration, and story-telling to package his humour.
One other person says that Rock focuses on racism and speaks badly of Caucasians while he (the reviewer)as a WHITE person was taught by his white parents to accept everyone. Very commendabe, but the person misses some things:
Rock tears into the Jacksons, R Kelly and OJ and he pokes fun at black celebrities wasting their money on jewellery and car rims. So he makes fun of blacks and whites. And he doesn't attack caucasions as much as he reminds people of how the system has been run for over 300 years. Is that bad? No. Why? Because there are so many memorials for the Holocaust... even last year I saw various ceremonies. That took place over a period of about 6 years. Slavery in America took place for about 300 years. And the 'in thing' now is for whites to say "I wasn't there", "T didn't to anything blacks" etc. The slavery part of America and its impact are being pushed under the carpet. Even during 'Black History Month' the predominatly white stations educate the country little about what happened.
This ties in with one of Rock's pieces in which he says basically that it has been OK for whites to make 'money from pain'. In this case the pain was slavery. 'It was bad, but it's all in the past, I didn't have anything to do with it... get over it.' In this regard Rock is instructive about 'The System.' I think Rock's material would only upset someone because it makes them uncomfortable... because it is skilfully intertwined with truth. In fact the best comics use truth in their work.
That reviewer also asked us to name one black comic in the last generation who hasn't used race as a major theme of his comedy. Ok, here's not one, but two: Bill Cosby and Will Smith. Further I have seen white comedians on Black Entertainment Television making race jokes against blacks and seen blacks laughing and laughed myself. Often jokes are made from stretching and garnishing things, and should be digested in that context.
Rock demonstrates how intelligent he is by actually being wisely educational amidst it all. In-between-the-lines he tells blacks that if they think they are rich and have reached, that's not quite the case, and that they should not waste money on rims and jewellery and bling because it can all go quickly. "Even Rick James was rich."
And Rock covers many issues. The War, Parenting, Marriage, Celebrities and more.
I only didn't give this 5 stars because I find Rock curses too much. But he IS funny and you'll learn some useful things for life.
Movie Review: Different doesn't mean bad.
Summary: 4 Stars
Now it's just my opinion, but whilst reading others reviews for Never Scared, I couldn't help but notice how everybody that gave lower ratings to this release spent a lot of time comparing it to his prior stand ups. I would just like to point out that if Chris Rock kept doing stand ups that were mirror images of Bring The Pain, and Bigger and Blacker, that his routine would quickly become redundant and old. I'll be the first to admit that I don't especially enjoy Never Scared as much as BTP and B&B, but by no means is it a disappointment. People can rant and rave all they want about how it's not "vintage" Chris Rock, and it's not as "in your face". Personally, I think he's still very 'in your face', and though the issues he elaborates on may have become more serious and political, it's still very much Chris Rock.
For the DVD itself, I consider it well above average. Chris Rock definitely hasn't lost his ability to point out the obvious while still managing to make people look stupid. He speaks of many current issues, such as the Michael Jackson case, Janet Jackson, Kobe Bryant, George Bush and the war in Iraq, and much more. And like his prior two specials, he ends it with a completely hilarious segment on relationships and women, that will surely make men laugh their behind off (and many women too) , and shake their head in agreement at the same time.
All in all, despite this being the weaker of his stand-ups, it's still an above average special, and still quite worthy of adding to your Chris Rock collection. 8.5/10.
Movie Review: Richard Pryor Syndrome?
Summary: 4 Stars
Chris Rock seems to be following Pryor's career arc: a dynamic, revelatory first concert follwed by a succession of increasingly weaker and less magical ones. Don't get me wrong, he's still the best out there, still vital and still an important artist. It's just that his sets are becoming looser and less focused, robbing his top-flight writing of some of its impact. For example, the first 30 minutes or so are a bit of a drag as he skewers troubled celebrities who have already had quite enough of it ( Who hasn't made fun of O.J. by now? ). He also gets caught up in his own words a bit e.g. "Michael Jackson...Michael Jackson...Michael Jackson!..." ( alright, I hear ya, now what? ) which eats up time and slows down the flow. What saves him and this concert are his prickly intelligence and his ferocious indignation at society's constraints, hypocrasies, and double-standards. When he gets down to his views on politics, race, and relationships, that's when he finally starts to fire on all cylinders and remind us why he's #1. Toward the end, he starts to remind me of George Carlin's recent work ( "You Are All Diseased" for instance, because of his similar angry take on a society gone mad ), which is a good thing since Carlin is still vibrant while sadly, Pryor isn't. Everything considered, despite the flaws, this is essential viewing and tasty brainfood for the angry philosopher.