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 Wanda Sykes: Sick & Tired $2.99 Okay, I suppose it's comprehensible that, someday, Wanda Sykes will release a crummy DVD ....but, frankly, I doubt it. I mean, it's Wanda Sykes. It's either Funny, Very Funny, or Hysterical ...what's not to like? In comparison, I suppose I might, if forced, rate SICK AND TIRED a couple of points below TONGUE UNTIED, mostly because it's easier to recover from SAT. With TU, I nearly hurt myself laughing, and my stomach muscles were sore for hours afterward. IT is "Hilarious". If I could find anything negative to say about her act --and it's been said by many, it would be only that sometimes the expletives are a few too many and/or unnecessary to make the point, even considering that she's communicating what annoys her and her frustration and/or confusion about it. i.e., she expresses some of our emotions for us and makes us laugh instead being ostracized from our peer groups for profanity. And yet, she's pretty darned good at making it an effective tool. Especially during the Bush years (or ShrubFest, as I like to call it), I swore a lot, and not always under my breath. There was a feeling of powerlessness and fear. Now that there's an intelligent, mature adult in the Oval Office who is not an egomaniac, there's not as much to gripe about there --but there are plenty of places in Congress and in everyday life; so I imagine there will simply be a slight angle adjustment in Wanda's routines. We'll still need to hear her truthful assessments, her insistence that we notice "the emperor has no clothes"; and we'll still be compelled to both laugh and seriously consider her thoughts and theories. True, the smarter, wittier stuff is what makes me laugh, not fart jokes and not strings of gratuitous swear words, and Tongue Untied probably one-ups SAT for that reason as well; but SICK AND TIRED, if you're a Wanda fan, is still more than worth owning. She is a brilliant humorist as well as a brilliant stand-up comic -- you know the difference. She's got it all.  The Kingston High $9.99 This movie wasn't as bad as some of the crap I've seen low budget that looks like it was shot on home cameras. True, some of the shots look amateurish but the story is pretty good and the commentary was interesting. The effort was there but the budget was lacking. The cover makes it look like it's a high budget film but it isn't...but I would not say this movie flat out sucks by any means. My vote is worth a look because of some of it's insightfulness. The Kingston High $2.99 This movie wasn't as bad as some of the crap I've seen low budget that looks like it was shot on home cameras. True, some of the shots look amateurish but the story is pretty good and the commentary was interesting. The effort was there but the budget was lacking. The cover makes it look like it's a high budget film but it isn't...but I would not say this movie flat out sucks by any means. My vote is worth a look because of some of it's insightfulness. |
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