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Mood:
Feel Good Humorous Witty
Plot:
Friends Buddies Music Band Friendship Artists and Showbiz
Genres:
Comedy Music Documentary Music Concert Stand Up and Sketches
Time/Period:
Contemporary 21st Century
Place:
New York USA
Praise:
Critically Acclaimed
Attitudes:
Semi Serious Realistic
Score:
Hip Hop Soul
Flag:
Profanity

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Dave Chappelle's Block Party, 2005

Starring: Dave Chappelle

Directed by: Michel Gondry

Written by: Dave Chappelle

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 103 min

MPAA Rating: R

Rating:7.1

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The mood of Dave Chappelle's Block Party is feel good, humorous, and witty. The plot centers around friends, a music band, and artists and showbiz. It is a comedy and documentary movie. Stylistically, Dave Chappelle's Block Party is a music concert and involves stand up and sketches. In approach, it is realistic. The setting is New York. Dave Chappelle's Block Party happens in contemporary times. The musical score is soul and hip hop. The movie is known for being critically acclaimed. Note that Dave Chappelle's Block Party includes profanity.

Summary of Dave Chappelle's Block Party

Between the sharp comedic mind of David Chappelle and the quirky brilliance of French director Michel Gondry (ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND), there's not a single bad moment to be found in this captivating concert documentary chronicling a massive block party that Chappelle threw in 2004 down in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. With acts like the Roots, Kanye West, Jill Scott, Mos Def, Erykah Badu, and a reunion of the Fugees, this will be an automatic favorite for the hip-hop/neo-soul crowd. In its perceptive, celebratory way, the film opens the VIP gates on hip-hop culture and invites everyone in for a funky good time. Gondry's fly-on-the wall camera approach recalls D.A. Pennebaker docs like DON'T LOOK BACK (1967) but the attitude is more laid back and genial; the stars, the band, the locals, the marching band Chappelle buses in from his Ohio hometown, all come together with a rare sense of charmed spontaneity--watching it becomes akin to participation. Chappelle is hilarious, whether handing out golden tickets to old ladies or reciting improv poetry to a bongo beat, and the music is just as good, with highlights being Lauryn Hill's heartbreaking "Killing Me Softly," and Kayne Wests's galvanizing "Jesus Walks." This BLOCK PARTY re-writes a host of rules about what a concert film can be, and it does it with enough love to spill out of the theater and into the neighborhood.

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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	3 March 2006
Runtime:	103 min

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The Hollywood Reporter

The word "community" has become a cliche, but this party, both backstage and before the crowd, illustrates a specific sense of cultural community and the singular bliss of standing on a city street in late-summer rain for a once-in-a-lifetime concert. Full Review

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by: Sheri Linden

Chicago Tribune

An uplifting, funny and engaging star-studded affair. Full Review

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by: Allison Benedikt

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Chappelle moves it along, the music is great. There is a lot of love for his friends. The DVD has the option to see the complete set of each artist instead of just the parts featured in the film. Read and rate it

27.October.2010
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by: Kirsteen
Kirsteen rated this movie0/10

I don't like hip-hop music, I didn't know most of the musicians in the movie, but I still enjoyed it. I really liked the message that the musicians and Dave were trying to get across. If you're not a big fan of rap/hip-hop because of the violent... Read and rate it

23.March.2009
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by: Michael
Michael rated this movie6/10Okay

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