CB4 - The Movie (1993)
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 21
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 10
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Average Rating: 4.9/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 6
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Comedian Chris Rock stars in this scattershot satire of rap music in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap. This film within a film begins with A. White (Chris Elliot) screening a rough cut of a documentary he has made of the notorious CB4 rap group -- consisting of group leader Albert, also know as MC Gusto (Chris Rock); Otis, also known as Stab Master Arson (Deezer D); and Euripides, also know as Dead Mike (Allen Payne). White charts the course of CB4's success, their superstar status a result of the
Mar 12, 1993 Wide
Jan 14, 2003
MCA Universal Home Video
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Cast
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Chris Rock
Albert -
Allen Payne
Euripides -
Deezer D
Otis -
Chris Elliott
A. White -
Phil Hartman
Virgil Robinson -
Charlie Murphy
Gusto -
Khandi Alexander
Sissy -
Art Evans
Alber Sr. -
Theresa Randle
Eve -
Willard E. Pugh
Trustus -
Louisa Abernathy
Mrs. Otis -
Halle Berry
Herself -
Al Clegg
976-Dis -
Lance Crouther
Well Dressed Man -
J.D. Daniels
Ben -
Tommy Davidson
Weird Warren (uncredite... -
Flavor Flav
Himself -
Richard Gant
Baa Baa Ack -
Isaac Hayes
Owner -
Shirley Hemphill
976-Sexy -
Ice Cube
Himself -
Ice-T
Himself -
Jedda Jones
Waitress -
Russell Tyrone Jones
40 Dog -
Christopher Keene
Accountant -
LaWanda Page
Grandma -
Renee Tenison
Twin -
John Walcutt
Director -
Gerard G. Williams
Inmate -
Wayne "Crescendo" Ward
Biscuit Diner -
Sally Jane Jackson
Wacky Dee -
Melvin Jones
Inmate -
Jeremiah Birkett
Malik -
Chasiti Hampton
Tee Tee -
Niketa Calame
Albertina -
Shaquille O'Neal
Himself -
Vanessa Lee Chester
Talona -
Rachel True
Daliha
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All Critics (21) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (10) | DVD (3)
Tamra Davis, a musicvideo director with the well-received feature debut Guncrazy on her resume, might have really had something here had she settled on any one of the many paths the movie starts down.
Top CriticTorn between celebration and sendup, CB4 misses its big target as often as it hits.
In parts it is hugely, monstrously funny.
CB4 promises sharper satire than it actually delivers.
If your mood is loose and profane, if you speak hip-hop (or you just like hearing it) and if you think Rock is funny (he is), you'll be glad you checked this out.
As a series of ocasionally-amusing vignettes, CB4 is is fitfully entertaining. However, when everything is tied together into a cohesive whole, this movie is a colossal mess.
Partly scripted by Nelson George, the premier authority on hip hop, the film is not without moments of insight, and there are certainly enough gross-out gags to keep you watching.
CB4 just isn't too funny, and one gets the feeling that the filmmakers themselves lacked the resolve or coherence of vision to mock rap in any effective fashion.
An amusing look at the early days of the gangsta rappers.
One of the first movies to parody gangsta rap, it does so knowingly and affectionately.
A muddled but often funny rap satire.
Resolutely lame in all the wrong places, CB4 is nowhere near the witty satire it purports to be.
A fast-paced and frequently hilarious spoof of the old-school rap world.
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Foreign Titles
- CB4 (DE)
- CB4 (UK)
Leave it to Chris Rock to take a great concept and ensure there's not a single laugh-out-loud moment in the whole film, even with Phil Hartman on board. Surely, I thought, as much as I love rap music and as many times as I've heard references to CB4 in rap songs, that this film would be better, funnier, something. But it wasn't.