Margaret Cho Collection (I'm the One That I Want / Notorious C.H.O. / Revolution)
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DVD Reviews of Margaret Cho Collection (I'm the One That I Want / Notorious C.H.O. / Revolution)

DVD Review: first two great, 3rd sucked
Summary: 3 Stars

DVD Review: hilarious standup
Summary: 4 Stars

DVD Review: Cho Shines
Summary: 4 Stars

DVD Review: Margaret Cho Collection (I'm the One That I Want / Notorious C.H.O. / Revolution)
Summary: 5 Stars

DVD Review: politics aside
Summary: 5 Stars

Description of Margaret Cho Collection (I'm the One That I Want / Notorious C.H.O. / Revolution)

Notorious C.H.O.
Margaret Cho is an NC-17 woman in a PG-13 world. Very, very little can be quoted from this concert film, as can be expected from a woman who, in the film's empowering conclusion, sounds the rallying cry to live "without restraint." Leave it to Cho to reference September 11 with a joke that is at once profane and respectful. Like Richard Pryor, the Korean-American outlaw comedian has found her niche with concert films that allow her the freedom to be her "actual self." She riffs unabashedly about relationships gone sour and relates her experiences as a sexual Captain Kirk, boldly going where she has never gone before. Notorious, yes, but not as accessible for the uninitiated as her last concert film, I'm the One That I Want, which recounted the rise and fall of her ill-fated sitcom. The faithful, though, won't pass up the chance for a private audience with the diva of the disenfranchised.

Revolution
Margaret Cho does not suffer well the by-now-clich?d expression, "Don't go there." As Cho remarks near the end of her characteristically passionate one-woman show, "I live there. I bought a house there." "There" for Margaret Cho is graphic descriptions of sexual acts, gay and straight, and bodily functions, impersonating a Bangkok sex-show barker, and other matters addressed in her singular frank and explicit style. Two hysterical rants that can be printed here involve being served an Asian Chicken Salad and all the reasons she will never be cast in a period film. Revolution is more fitfully paced than her previous concert films, but she saves the best, and her most righteous anger, for last, when she addresses negative body image, racism, and homophobia. Here, she drops the attitude and gets real. She may be preaching to the converted (a Cho audience is nothing but idolatry), but it is a powerful sermon. Viva Cho! --Donald Liebenson

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