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Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Filmed at a sold-out performance at Madison Square Garden, comedian Kevin Hart delivers material from his 2012 "Let Me Explain" concert tour.
Starring: Kevin HartComedy | 100% |
Documentary | 3% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English, English SDH, Spanish
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
UV digital copy
DVD copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Does merely dropping the “f bomb” over and over (and over) constitute your idea of hilarity? If so, you’ll probably get a kick out of Kevin Hart’s latest offering, which combines snippets from his sold out Madison Square Garden performances with more of a faux documentary approach that sees the comedian supposedly in off the cuff moments. If, like me, you’re an older fuddy duddy (yes, I freely admit it), you may find some of this humor lacking in punch, let alone punchlines. Hart is an amiable enough presence, and when he crafts comedy out of his kind of self important, self obsessed persona, things are in fact funny. Too often, though, Hart goes for the easy laugh (often as much a result of shock as it is of comedy) brought on by nonstop profanity. All of this said, Hart's sold out audiences are obviously in the former camp, for the live performance part of this Blu-ray shows an audience (and I mean that literally--the camera is often right up in various audience members' faces) laughing hysterically at every obscenity laced sentence the comedian utters.
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer. This is a nicely sharp and well detailed looking piece, with well saturated colors and excellent contrast. Some of the wide shots of Madison Square Garden don't pop with quite the clarity that the bulk of this enterprise does, but otherwise this a clear and precise looking presentation.
Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain features a great sounding lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 mix that starts off a bit on the anemic side (due to the "framing" device of a backstage party), but which soon kicks it up a notch once Hart takes us on a tour of his world travels which culminates in his Madison Square Garden performances. Fidelity is excellent, with the ubiquitous audience reactions spilling quite nicely through the surrounds.
Old fashioned? You bet I am. I see a lot of standup comedy (my own wife performs as a standup comedian in the Pacific Northwest, regularly selling out shows at her own venue), and I just frankly get tired of nonstop profanity serving as the basis for comedy. Hart is a very appealing presence, and his act is lapped up by a large and appreciative audience here, so I'm obviously in the wrong demographic to fully appreciate this sort of humor. Hart fans will certainly want to pick this up, as it's actually a rather interesting "reboot" of the standard concert video.
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