CB4 - The Movie Reviews
Top CriticTamra 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.
Film4
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.
Torn between celebration and sendup, CB4 misses its big target as often as it hits.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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.
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| Original Score: 1/4
In parts it is hugely, monstrously funny.
Film Threat
An amusing look at the early days of the gangsta rappers.
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| Original Score: 4/5
CB4 promises sharper satire than it actually delivers.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
New Times
One of the first movies to parody gangsta rap, it does so knowingly and affectionately.
| Original Score: 4/5
TheMovieReport.com
A muddled but often funny rap satire.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Austin Chronicle
Resolutely lame in all the wrong places, CB4 is nowhere near the witty satire it purports to be.
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| Original Score: 2/5
eFilmCritic.com
A fast-paced and frequently hilarious spoof of the old-school rap world.
| Original Score: 3.5/5
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Though CB4 starts out as a fairly amusing rap variation of This is Spinal Tap! it quickly sinks into a raunchy, sexist series of off-the-wall gags that go nowhere.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
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.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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.
There's an unexpected innocence mixed in here that helps to blunt the pointed raunchiness (and political incorrectness) of the subject.
