Margaret Cho has problems. She does not
talk about them in Notorious C.H.O.
While she pretends to be telling her own life story, it’s obvious that only half
of it is true. Notorious C.H.O is a
giant collage of sexual terms, and whatever you can think of; its there. After
an hour and thirty-five minutes of continuous talk of menstruating, checking out
pornography from the local video store, and ejaculation problems; my plate was
full. Cho is a fat Korean woman, who does not look the part that she plays, but
after you’ve seen this film, you are fully convinced that she is just as good as
Martin Lawrence at talking trash. I do, however, believe every single word that
she says about her parents. She blabbers on about how they came to one of her
shows, and were thoroughly in shock. This is in no surprise to me, they seem
like very stringent individuals, and their daughter is definitely not one bit
like them. What would you do if you saw your child talking to mass audiences
about getting hemorrhoids pulled, having sex, and dishing out blow
jobs?
Notorious C.H.O was recorded in
Seattle in front of a live audience. Most
of the members, by their covers, look homosexual. Though Cho is a favorite of
the gay and lesbian audiences, I don’t know how this is possible. She constantly
mouths off about how sick and conceded the behavioral methods of these
individuals are, yet she keeps emphasizing how nice and wonderful they are. Talk
about a split personality! She has many feelings of hostility towards them, but
they seemingly find her to be hilarious and continue to attend her tours and
events. Most of the material is funny that Ms. Cho puts out, but it’s all just
too over the top to like. I can praise a stand-up show when it has the right
balance of sugar and spice, but Notorious
C.H.O doesn’t. There is not one bit of humanity in what Margaret says. There
is some extent of truth in relation to society in what she states but a lot of
it is just crap that nobody wants to listen to. Sex, race, and culture are
things we already have to hear enough of, why do we need more of
it?
As a whole, Notorious C.H.O isn’t all that bad as a
show, but it’s atrocious as a movie. If money weren’t an issue, this flick would
have no problem going straight to video, and would’ve benefited from it. At
first, it didn’t strike me this bad, but after watching moment after moment of
the constant usage of raunchy, racy, sexual vocabulary; it began to wear thin,
and was even painful towards the end. It was even comforting to see her take a
bow at the end of the show, and leave the stage… But little did I know, she
would come back later. After re-entering the front, Cho proceeds to, once again,
talk about her mother; which she had already explained a million times during
the “real” event. If you aren’t a fan of Cho, or any other kind of sexually
demonstrative comedy, this one definitely isn’t for you. I hate the film – it’s
stupid, ignorant, and most importantly; unkind to its viewers. I’m tired of
Margaret Cho, and the rest of the world should be, too.
-Danny, Bucket Reviews
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