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Chris Rock:Never ScaredRating:
Release Date: 31 August, 2004 Retail Price: $19.96 OUR Price: $15.97 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: |
Chris Rock:Never Scared Reviews
The boy has matured
CR finally comes of age
His humor is now politically motivated and although the DVD grads in bits, there are pieces of absolute brilliance, like the bit on Mandela & the Strippers at the start. But if you do buy this DVD and can possible come out saying it was average; buy it for the bonus material of BAD ASS JOKES - his 1st appearance which is also featured on this DVD- truly amazing! Hilarious! I highly recommend it.
ENJOY!
Will definitely make you laugh, think, and wiser
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.
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