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Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain Review

Director: Leslie Small

Starring: Kevin Hart

Year: 2013

This is my first review of a stand-up comedy movie. But I love stand-up comedy, that being said I haven’t watched a lot. But when I do, I laugh my ass off. It’s a great time for me. That being said, I didn’t know if I wanted to review a stand up movie because I didn’t know how to rank it. My system for movie was one to ten, but not anymore. Now it’s one to five, and it’s a hell of a lot easier. And I’d much rather watch a standup comedian and be highly entertained in some DVD than some bull crap below average movie. That being said a movie that is good holds a lot of value, and so a comedian has to be really funny to compare to that. And I really think Kevin Hart is funny. He’s grown popular enough even a guy who doesn’t watch too much standup like me has seen all his major DVDs. And I enjoy them, just like I enjoy pretty much each standup I’ve ever watched. And with the new one, I rented it, and I’ve watched it twice in a two day period, so I think I’m ready for a review. Now I heard mixed reactions from this. Maybe the biggest is this didn’t live up to people’s hype. Now I don’t hype things, I really don’t. And so, I am far away from hyping a comedian. Besides that I haven’t heard much. But I did enjoy all of his skits, but this one he mixed things up. The opening thing was good enough, I do wish these DVDs had more of them. But he goes into a lot of stories, a lot of them to do with his family and friends. And Kevin Hart wants you to know all about his family and friends, but he makes it funny as hell. And it’s believable. The reason why I think the most is because he didn’t look like the good guy in any. In fact he kind of seemed like the asshole in a lot of his stories. Now I don’t know why he’d do that in a DVD titled "Let Me Explain,” but I guess that’s him. I mean he explains his divorce and other stuff like that, but in the end he just kind of admits his shit, and makes good jokes out of it. And I like just about all of his segments. Each one had me at least laughing. But there was at least three to four times I was laughing my ass off. The only one I didn’t like was the one about bums. At one point Kevin was laughing so hard he couldn’t get the joke out. And I couldn’t relate to being afraid of homeless people, I guess I haven’t had enough homeless people trying to flick my lip. Bumbump isn’t as funny or quotable as his old stuff. Not that this isn’t really funny and quotable, and have tons of good lines. I think something Kevin Hart does really well is hit his punch lines really good with facial expressions and voices. When he’s telling a story, you are getting the story. And just little things like smiling or widened eyes as some of the people from the stories really makes a difference. Now there is the question of, "Is this as good as the old stuff, or what came before this?” To be honest, I don’t care. This isn’t a movie sequel, so I’d be okay with this sucking. But I thought each of these DVDs was about as good as the other, and this one I thought was really good, but not as good. Some of the jokes were really running, it got to be too much of some of it, and I just didn’t enjoy my end result as much. I will say I think you should watch his earlier work before watching this if you can. Kevin Hart also seems to be a really good guy, even if it kind of feels like they really have to tell you that. His near cry at the end, that was real, the opening with people reminding you how famous and likeable he is, not so much. Anyway, really good, the problems I had didn’t bother me like it probably did some people. But Kevin pulled out another good show, which I think is a lot harder than you’d think, and he did have a hot show, literally. Like, there was fire, lots of it… see this quotable!