Margaret Cho - I'm the One That I Want
by Lionel Coleman
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Actor: Margaret ChoDirector: Lionel Coleman
Brand: Genius
Producer: Margaret Cho
Writer: Margaret Cho
Cinematographer: Lionel Coleman
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Winstar
DVD Reviews of Margaret Cho - I'm the One That I Want
DVD Review: One to add to your collection
Summary: 4 Stars
It has a weak ending but is pretty darn funny. Great for past time and even better with friends.DVD Review: Still her best show!
Summary: 5 Stars
My partner and I have all four of her shows on DVD, and this is still our favorite. Why? Because though she digresses and takes time to channel various characters, all the elements are still unified by the thread of her own story. She's a pottymouth, but not as gratuitously as in her later shows, and the timing (or the editing) seems faster.
This is a great introduction to the magic of Margaret!
DVD Review: Finding Her Voice
Summary: 4 Stars
I've seen snippets from Margaret Cho's other comedy routines, but this, her first, is the only one I've watched in its entirety (and more than once). You'd think I was afraid to watch the later ones--not because I'm easily offended or put-off--but simply because this show is so solid (laugh-out-loud funny, but also touchingly honest) that maybe I'm almost afraid I'll be disappointed in the follow-up films. Definitely something to work on in this new year.
It's not that this recorded performance is perfect. In essence, I'd have to agree with some commentators that her timing SEEMS to be off on occasion and that some bits are milked too long. But I say "seems" because this is a recording of a live show and, obviously, quite a different experience from experiencing it first-hand. A comedian sometimes pauses, in response to audience reaction, and that doesn't always come through on a videorecording. And sometimes, it may just me the viewer (in this case, me) who's being dense and NOT getting it. The first time I watched the show, I didn't understand the seemingly endless repetitions of the "Hi, my name is Gwen and I'm here..." Second time through, I had a "D'oh" moment, and it finally dawned on me that Gwen was going from hospital bed to hospital bed saying the same durned thing over and over.
How I missed that the first time, I'll never know.
Some will no doubt find the comedy-as-therapy approach to much of this material a little too much. Again, I'd say you have to keep in mind that this is a film of a live performance. The close ups capture the pained look in Margaret's face at some key moments--which is more than the audience can see at a distance. But then again, they CAN hear the emotion in her delivery, and that's impossible to miss. But if you think Margaret Cho is unique among comics in using her personal pain as raw material for comedy, you may need to go back and give other contemporary comics (well, really, comics from the last several decades) a serious re-listening or re-viewing. Think Richard Pryor! Think Chris Rock! Comics have been "bringing the pain" for decades now (and longer if mother-in-law jokes count.)
Scrolling through some of the reviews posted on this site, I see one or two that talk about how much sharper and more focused her later routines are on the subsequent DVDs. If that's true, I really need to get over my fear of disappointment and give NOTORIOUS C.H.O. and REVOLUTION a shot. But this one will always have a special place on my DVD shelf. It's a document of a very brave AND very funny woman finding her voice at last.
DVD Review: Hilarious! Touching.
Summary: 5 Stars
One learns a lot about Cho from this DVD. While maintaining hilarity, Cho tells the story of her time as a child star, and her battle with weight disorders.
Very great, and a definite purchase for a Cho fan.
DVD Review: Pretty funny, but a little too much info at times...
Summary: 4 Stars
I like this film quite a bit. Normally, I don't get into standup comedy films, but I like Margaret Cho for the most part. She is usually very funny, and her audience is really having a good time here. Some of my favorite parts are where she impersonates her mother and that ABC hired an "Asian consultant" for her horrible sitcom. The mother bit is hilarious, and the ABC bit is hilarious as well as outrageous (maybe the folks at ABC didn't realise that Korea is considered part of Asia). I did object to when Margaret talks about how she became a drunk, drugged out tramp after the sitcom was cancelled. The term she used was she gave a lot of unnecessary h**d. I understand that she needs to vent, but I don't really like to hear too much about the sordid details of her private life, and I doubt that her current husband cared for it that much either (guys do not like to hear their current squeeze's past, no matter how "open minded" they are). I'm glad she's cleaned up, and I hope she stays that way. She doesn't really go into too much political stuff here, which is good. Too often Margaret's poiltical rantings become shrill and humourless, like a lot of political rantings tend to do. But here she stays clear of that, which makes this one of the better comedy concert films.
Description of Margaret Cho - I'm the One That I Want
Margaret chos raunchy and hysterically funny stand-up concert. Filmed lived at the warfield in margarets hometown of san francisco i the one that i want is margaret cho at her very best funny shocking and irreverent. Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Starring: Margaret Cho Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Lionel ColemanThis concert film becomes gripping, moving, and triumphantly funny when Margaret Cho stops with the "fag-hag" jokes and gets real in recounting her ill-fated sitcom and its devastating effects on her mental and physical well-being. In the spirit of Richard Pryor talking about his infamous freebasing accident in Live on the Sunset Strip and Julia Sweeney discussing caring for her cancer-stricken brother in God Said, "HA!", Cho's account of her ill-conceived 1994 ABC sitcom All American Girl is victorious, a "you go, girl" call to empowerment. Her happiness at finding mainstream acceptance was short-lived when the network expressed concerns about her weight. A desperately insecure Cho proceeded to lose 30 pounds in a month and wound up in the hospital with kidney failure. Even more humiliating was the special consultant hired to instruct her how to appear "more Asian." Cho recalls receiving a phone call after the show's premiere from an enraged Quentin Tarantino, her then-boyfriend, who screamed at her, "They took your voice!" The capper was when her show was cancelled to make room for The Drew Carey Show ("Because he's so thin," Cho asides). Drink, drugs, and promiscuous sex followed, until Cho gave herself a wake-up call. "I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else," she proclaims. "I'm going to succeed as myself." This is the one Cho's legion of devoted fans want. More sensitive viewers are advised to fast-forward through the raunchier bits. --Donald Liebenson
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