Margaret Cho - Revolution

Margaret Cho - Revolution
by Lorene Machado

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Actor: Bruce Daniels, Margaret Cho
Director: Lorene Machado
Brand: Genius
Producer: Margaret Cho
Writer: Margaret Cho
Cinematographer: Kirk Miller
Editor: Lorene Machado
Producer: Lorene Machado
Producer: Dennis Sugasawara
Producer: Karen Taussig
Producer: Nisha Ganatra
Producer: Ran Barker
Producer: Suzanne Ali
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-08-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Wellspring

DVD Reviews of Margaret Cho - Revolution

DVD Review: This 'Revolution' Doesn't Need To Be Televised
Summary: 2 Stars

I like Margaret Cho because she's funny, attractive, and has a positive message of tolerance and acceptance. After enjoying her latest stand up special 'Beautiful', I picked this one up hoping for more of the same. Unfortunately this one wasn't as strong. Things started off good with Cho talking about George Bush, the challenges of growing up in an immigrant family, and doing funny impersonations of her mom. Then things stall for about forty five minutes. The entire middle section drags on with no real laughs and even the audience seems bored. They only get back into it after Margaret relives a horrifying accident that happened to her while she was driving. (It doesn't involve cars). Things end on a high note with Cho speaking very movingly about respecting her father, how media stereotypes negatively influence young women and calling on everyone to join her in a revolution aimed at changing how society feels about sexual orientation, race, gender, politics and anything else that needs fixing. If the middle were as strong as the opening and ending this could have been a great show. The DVD extras include more of Margaret and her opening act, the very smart and funny Bruce Daniels, discussing current events and attending a Gay Marriage rally. Margaret's reply to protesters with signs is funnier than anything found in the middle half of this film.

DVD Review: What, what?? Dis be some funny....
Summary: 5 Stars

I've never seen Cho before so I had no expectations. I can only tell you that I've never laughed at my television so much in my life. She's brilliant, dark, intelligent, and disturbed. I'm not sure why there are so many bad reviews and can only attribute it to high expectations based on her other shows. Which is good news for me considering this blew my undies off. Cho is awesome if your sense of humor and tilt on life is a little off--watch and enjoy.

DVD Review: Awful
Summary: 1 Stars

I have never seen or heard Margaret Cho before, so this was my introduction. I've read some of the reviews that say this is the worst of her work, but after watching this movie (or as much of it as I could endure), I have no desire to give her the benefit of the doubt and see any of her other work. Her work was "shocking" only its banality, and funny only in the tragic sense that a movie was actually made out of this. That said, she does appear to have a loyal audience, as any contortion (no matter how transparently forced or irrelevant to the narrative at hand), any lame political "commentary" (unoriginal musings taken straight from common political criticism and dressed up only with random spasmodic faces, lengthy pauses, and incoherent changes of pitch and tone), or any "extreme" joke about exploding vaginas and diarrhea was greeted with wild enthusiasm.

DVD Review: I love Margaret Cho
Summary: 5 Stars

She is is such a trash talking nasty woman...and I love her for it! This time she was at her funnest talking about Asian stereotypes. And I agree that someone putting you down because of your race or sexual orientation attacks you at a very fundamental level. You can get skinny, you can change your hairstyle and you can change your style of clothes. But you can't change yourself at that level. As she said if you don't go there or give out too much information things don't change.

I would love to see her in person.

DVD Review: New Revolution?
Summary: 2 Stars

I'm a fan of Margaret's work, but I have to say that she was way off in this comedy outting. Normally her comedic timing and jokes are the things that drives fans in droves to her shows, but for some reason, she lost that in this movie. She wears an outfit that doesn't have much of a purpose, and I think the effect is lost on the audience at home.

It'll still be a decent watch if you are a hardcore Cho fan, but don't expect to feel like you've experienced a revolution by the time you finish watching it. Even her normally hilarious usage of her version of her mother is toned way down. The reason this movie is not a total bust is because she still delivers hilarious lines concerning some of her social observations.

This one is better left towards her huge fans, and even the huge Cho fans may feel disappointed after watching it. Although, if you are new to Cho Land, I do recommend checking out her two previous movies ("I'm the One That I Want" and "Notorious CHO").

Description of Margaret Cho - Revolution

Filmed live at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, REVOLUTION is comedian Margaret Cho's triumphant return to the screen with the same unbridled, no holds-barred humor that infused her previous two concert films. In REVOLUTION, Margaret tackles the axis of evil, her travels through Thailand's red light district, the explosion of child birth, bartering sex for household chores, revolutionizing one's self-esteem, the joy of bodily functions, her loser ex-boyfriend, and of course, her now world-famous mother. Known as much for her social activism as she is for her raunchy humor, Margaret is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon who once again brings her distinctive and empowering personal voice to her devoted and adoring fans. DVD extras include: Bruce Daniels (opening act), Behind-the-scenes, Commentary from Margaret Cho and Bruce Daniels, Clip from "Behind the Revolution" and "Cho Daniels Report", trailers

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. Cho 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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