Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain (2013)
Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 40
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 15
It's ironically rather short on standup from Mr. Hart himself, but structural problems aside, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain offers another example of why he's achieved mainstream success on his own terms.
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 6
It's ironically rather short on standup from Mr. Hart himself, but structural problems aside, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain offers another example of why he's achieved mainstream success on his own terms.
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From Summit Entertainment, KEVIN HART: LET ME EXPLAIN captures the laughter, energy and mayhem from Hart's 2012 "Let Me Explain" concert tour, which spanned 10 countries and 80 cities, and generated over $32 million in ticket sales.
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Kevin Hart's (Along Came Polly) audience loves him, but if you're not in love yet, this probably won't start the infatuation for you.
Top CriticOnce Hart finally gets onstage his act can barely live up to the hype.
Any comic who can play the Garden must be good, but you wouldn't know it from this jumble of random routines and on-the-bus footage.
He tells elliptical stories that go on so long and take so many weird detours that they end up being funny even when they shouldn't be.
If you were to judge Let Me Explain purely on its performance portion, filmed at Madison Square Garden during Hart's 2012 tour, the film would merit a full extra star. But at 75 minutes, it feels too skimpy to rave over.
Once Hart is on, he's hilarious; be warned, however, he takes a long time to get under way.
The laughs are frequent, with Hart's energy and timing having grown and been honed to more than fill the vast, cavernous space of Madison Square Garden.
I'd rather attend a Norman Wisdom tribute concert in downtown Tirana than see this film again.
I could have done without [the] pointless framing device, but there is some funny and highly incorrect material here.
The less said about the specifics of the act the better -- wouldn't want to spoil the punchlines -- but Let Me Explain is a notch above Hart's last concert film, 2011's Laugh at My Pain.
Hart's impressive physicality and the background special effects, which become their own running joke, are a smokescreen disguising how poorly written his rambling gags actually are.
I so wanted to be moved to genuine laughter, but it came in only fits and starts.
The Kevin Hart brand is clearly doing well, but Let Me Explain doesn't seem interested in providing anything more than a surface-level presentation of the product.
Hart nothing but a lightweight.
Kevin Hart works hard but is only funny with about 50% of his comedy routine.
'Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain' is really a laugh out loud experience that one can enjoy and come back for repeat viewings.
The stories are mainly in the "b****es be crazy" category....entertaining enough, but we get a sense he can do more.
On the whole, Hart's material veers toward the lowbrow and doesn't quite hit the heights of cleverness, talent, language, or delivery that predecessors like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Rock reached.
Kevin Hart is indeed a talented comedian. This is just not his best material.
Hart's comedy is the product of a brilliant acting performance. He uses his imposing physical and vocal skills to bring a paranoid, apoplectic madwoman to hilarious, side-splitting life.
He is, maybe, a little too frenetic, too frequently at full speed. But when he gets rolling, the laugh lines come quick, one after the other, and he kills.
Hart, one of the most talented and successful comedians working today, can make you laugh. And laugh hard. In Let Me Explain, he's on fire.
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