Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat Critic Reviews
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A movie that is not only achingly funny but also full of serious and philosophical truisms.Read the full review
If it proves nothing else, this movie establishes that it is impossible for a film to get the NC-17 rating from the MPAA for language alone. This takes the trophy for dirty talk, and I've seen the docs by Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Andrew Dice Clay.Read the full review
Lawrence makes you believe in the character you're watching. He does an amazing little piece of acting.Read the full review
Lawrence is a no-holds-barred stand-up comedian who gets away with the strongest, most graphic language because he is so funny and because he makes himself the object of so much of his humor.Read the full review
By turns defiant and apologetic, gleefully raunchy and anxiously defensive.Read the full review
He has a knack for creating vivid characters even in the briefest of vignettes in his live act, many of which are taken from his life, growing up poor in Greenbelt.Read the full review
Lawrence's material runs between mediocre and offensive, and then he rescues it with his physical humor. He's at his best when he lets his face or inflection do the talking.Read the full review
He doesn't just kill a good buzz. He bludgeons it.Read the full review
Lawrence's public foibles haven't magically transformed him into a comic genius, but they have made his act surprisingly poignant, if never especially funny or profound.Read the full review
This picture is mostly a lump of run-of-the-mill profanity sprinkled with a few remarks so geared toward engendering audience sympathy that you might think he was running for office -- or trying to win over a probation officer.Read the full review
