Fantastic!

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

The Chappelle is just brilliant. Especially Season 2. I was hard pressed to find a skit that I didn't throughly enjoy. Its timely humour combined with timeless social commentary. The musical guest appearances where amazing. I really enjoyed performance by Kanye West and Common. I didn't the any of the skits form the "Lost Episodes a.k.a. what was supposed to Season Three". Don't get me wrong. Charlie Murphy and Downell Rawlings are very funny. They are great character actors that are part of a brilliant ensemble cast but only Dave Chappelle can really do these skits just with his monologues. I am not a fan of the way the media seemed to portray Chappelle as having a emotional breakdown because he couldn't handle the pressure. This was how it seemed to be spun to me. Chappelle was given a boatload of money by Comedy Cental for season three. Chappelle went to Africa because he "crazy". Give me break. This show stands on its own. I really believe that he didn't walk away from his show because of the pressure. I think he betrayed philosophically by a number of people around. Especially Comedy Central. That is why he felt that he had to make "Block Party". To explain his actions to his fans. Isn't about brand extension or merchandising? Its about people. A connection between himself and his fans. His material spoke to me personally. Made me think. He could really mix it up. He wasn't one dimensional in the sense that he would strictly use stand-up comedy or throw in a random joke here and there to "spice things up".

I just couldn't help but comment on this show. It's clever. Everything is. It's a show full of sketches, and less of the chit chat you get on Mind of Mencia.My favorite, the R Kelly skit, when he was caught urinating on a teenager. Very funny. I also love the one about the president when he confesses to the press after everyone finds out a meteor is going to hit hurt that he made contact with the aliens, we didn't make cellphones, he cloned people, and so on. Very funny sketch. Wouldn't be funny if it really happened, though.I also love the "Ask A Black Man" thing. I don't think it's offensive one bit in my opinion. I love the guy who answers the questions, whatever his name is.I recommend this show for anyone.. Well, anyone mature enough to watch it.

This is not to say that he is an insult comic, far from it, he is a creative sketch writer and comedian! The Don Rickles observation comes from his comedic smashing of racial barriers and with him and Neal Brennan (a white dude and friends for years). If you look at the first two seasons as a whole, and I mean REALLY look at it, these young guys were seeking comedy for the sake of comedy; just knowing what they know and I think on an unconscious level, breaking down those barriers.If you listen to the audio commentary of the first 2 seasons, you see how these guys relate, and on a comedic level, they get along fluidly.I knew Chappelle was going somewhere when I saw him on Conan O'Brien years ago. He has energy and is hell quick on his feet when making an improvised joke. I'm sort of a comedy geek and in my opinion, Chappelle is probably the brightest comedian to shine post year 2000. I hope he works things out because it would be a shame to see such talent wasted. On the other hand, D.C. & N.B. have given us a boat load of comedy that most comedy shows within 10 years couldn't deliver even if they had 2 years on the air!Thanks Dave and Neal! Good luck and thanks a million for the laughs!!! It was up there with SCTV, prime SNL ('87-92') and Mr. Show. High accolades indeed! Most of the funniest/rawest/truest comedy I have seen in my lifetime!!! Adios.

Network: Comedy Central; Genre: Sketch, Comedy; Content Rating: TV-14 (for strong language, strong sexual content and graphic scatological humor); Available: on Uncensored DVD; Perspective: Cult Classic (star range: 1 - 5); Season Reviewed: 2 seasons Dave Chappelle walks out onto stage to the exuberant cheering of an audience already in the palm of his hand. From the very beginning we see Chappelle is a comedian in his element. He has done it. He's tamed the sketch comedy series and made it his own - a genre that has eaten alive the most talented comics from Dana Carvey to Cedric the Entertainer. A genre that the rotating casts of "SNL" and "Mad TV" has never quite been able to generate excitement for. He's not just tamed it, he's made it cool.The reason "Chappelle's Show" is such a rousing success is as simple as the title. This is his show in every facet, done his way. With a combination of Chappelle's own wit, a network giving him the freedom to do what he wants and a short 18 minute running time, "Chappelle" brings the comedian's warped vision to life. It is laugh-out-loud, catch-your-breath funny. As unflinchingly provocative, viciously scatological and anti-PC as comedy should be, Chappelle pokes the critics again and again, daring them to scream "racism".From the stage, Chappelle introduces pre-produced sketches, some of which are so elaborate that a single bit spans the entire length of the episode feeling like a series itself. Where "SNL" just tires out after a while and other sketch shows can be wildly hit and miss, nearly every sketch in "Chappelle" finds the funny somewhere. Even the more typical sketches, like relationship jokes and a very funny "Pop Copy" instructional video, hit the nail on the head.But the silver bullet in the chamber is the show's take on racial politics. "Chappelle" is thick with the classic "White People Do This/ Black People Do That" joke, only stretched a thousand different directions and re-invented for the new millennium. Chappelle's material has more layers than an onion, a monumental leap over the type of "Cops are always pulling me over" lines that lamer comedians are always falling back on. Chappelle and co-creator Neil Brennenn shape the show into a sharp comic dagger and aims it right between the eyes.Is Chappelle angry? You better believe it. And not just at white people. In the same breath he can make the case for why black people should get reparations and then shows us all the ways black people would just waste the money on, He takes a razors edge to a sacred media subject, flips it inside out and shows everyone how silly everything is. We get the sense Chappelle really believes every point he makes, but just as the sketch is about to roll into something harsh or more real, Chappelle sidesteps into gaffes and sex jokes making everything so convoluted you're mind might spin searching for his agenda.Many points about racial relations get muddled in the pursuit of great comedy, such as a bit showing if President Bush was black or the lengthy "The Mad Real World" bit - a "Real World" parody where a house of black people spend the entire time acting like prison thugs and torturing a white boy. A few of the bits are just duds, namely the drug jokes and Chappelle's attempt to launch crack-head Tyrone Bigguns as a recurring character.My biggest complain with "Chappelle" is the way it fills out seasons with "Mix Tape" Best Of episodes and fills episodes with musical guests - granted the jam sessions are put together in ways new enough to keep me reaching for the remote. But for the most part the sketches are cleverly written and unfold to a clear purpose. The show has a higher hit/miss ratio than any others.Chappelle himself gives an effortlessly smashing performance, immersing himself in a variety of characters for each sketch. He's helped by a roster of great guest stars and cameos from the likes of Arsenio Hall and Jamie Foxx. None better than Wayne Brady, who pokes fun at his squeaky clean image in a classic sketch.The series opens with Chappelle as black blind Klansman, Clayton Bigsby. The sketch builds to one of the most raucous climaxes you can imagine. Other favorites include "Ask a Black Dude" with a hysterical Paul Mooney, a vulgar riff on the "Jamie Kennedy Experiment", the "Racial Draft" where races pick celebrities to represent them (you'd just have to see it), hilarious outtakes from "Roots", a fantasy of Chappelle impregnating Oprah Winfrey several jokes about R. Kelly's infamous videotape.The show hits a high unlike any I've seen - ever - recreating in "E! True Hollywood Stories" fashion the adventures of staff writer Charlie Murphy, whose association with his brother Eddie led him to several run-ins with celebrities back in the 80s. One, a game of basketball with Prince (Chappelle) in which Murphy (in a cheap afro wig) calls the game between "the shirts and the blouses". Then there is that little comic virtuoso about a feud between Murphy and Rick James, featuring James himself, that has becomes such a deserving classic. An entire episode, the sketch recreates with slow-motion seriousness every inane conflict between the two that which includes a couch, a slap-fight and a Bruce Lee jump-kick. It is one of the most insane and consistently fall-down funny half hours of TV in recent memory.This young, boundlessly energetic, high-pitched screaming comedian has done things with this show I didn't think where possible before. "Chappelle's Show" is a runaway juggernaut that hits it into the rafters. When it all ends, Chappelle is back on the stage to get an applause and standing ovation from a crowd that rightly senses that they are in on something great here.* * * * ½ / 5