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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
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (8) | 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.
Torn between celebration and sendup, CB4 misses its big target as often as it hits.
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.
There's an unexpected innocence mixed in here that helps to blunt the pointed raunchiness (and political incorrectness) of the subject.
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.
In parts it is hugely, monstrously funny.
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.
Watch Fear of a Black Hat instead. Because it's actually funny. And relevant. Even if you don't like rap. Especially if you like rap.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
January 22, 2011Super Reviewer
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