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Purely Joyful Movie!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This dude was getting more downloads that most top movies. His sell out tour was a worldwide one. Packing houses everywhere. I'm a huge fan of stand up, so I couldn't wait to see what all the fuss was about.I'm still not sure. Perhaps he had the right friends. Certainly, he has a dumb audience. They probably can tell you the winners of American Idol and love watching Snookie and Paris Hilton. During the act, I turned to my wife. She was sleeping. She didn't laugh once. I was hungry and as she was sleeping, I had to cook for myself. I can't cook to save my life so I went hungry.After another hour of waiting to laugh..the show ended. Little Kev cried at how famous he was. It was a touching moment. So touching, that I took out a rusty nail and smashed it into my face. It was either that or a trip to the clock tower.Do yourself a favour. If you want to laugh at a 'new' comic...watch some Louis CK.However, if you're really stupid and love being 'cool'...Kev's your man.

. . . at 5-feet, 2-inches tall, Kevin Hart certainly has the form to go with a style more than reminiscent of Rooney. While it is true that early Hart vehicles such as SCARY MOVIE may not be in the same league with Rooney's boyhood work--including NATIONIAL VELVET and the Andy Hardy series--movies in general are pretty much apples and oranges when compared to Hollywood's output of the 1940s under the Golden Age of the Studio System. Ironically enough, LET ME EXPLAIN shows what an ordeal it is when the performers such as Hart must manage their own retinue and parties, rather than having studio flacks to do the heavy lifting for them. Many instances of backstage and behind-the-scenes chaos are captured by LET ME EXPLAIN directors Leslie Small and Tim Story, due to Hart's lack of the level of support Rooney enjoyed in his heyday under the studio system. It is a wonder that Kevin can think up any jokes at all, let alone come up with "crowning achievements" such as becoming the first stand-up comedian to go on tour with fire-on-the-stage, just like pop stars such as Madonna or ABBA!

If you can skip past the first 16 minutes of His Narcissistic Introduction, You will find a stand-up routine that is Fresh and comparable to an early Eddy Murphy without all the Raunch. Kevin manages to explain his bad boy image in a way that has you rolling in laughter and agreeing with his views, all the while endearing himself to his audience. His complete Honesty about Lying is so over the top, you start to believe Telling a Lie is an Art Form and you have been doing it wrong all along. Because of his humor, You just can't help but love him for all of his faults, even if he's a Pathological Comedy Genius!

I felt ripped off when comedian Kevin Hart said "thank you and good night" and abruptly ended his routine. I should have waited for this to show up on cable or the bootleg (just kidding about the bootleg). I paid money for a 75-minute stand-up comedy movie whose first 25 minutes feature no stand-up comedy whatsoever. Minus credits, that's ~45 minutes of jokes, several of which are only mildly funny, not his normally funny. The film opens with an unfunny party scene Hart shows clip after clip of his tours from around the world. Not ONE of these clips features Hart telling a single joke. Instead, it's him saying "thank you (fill in the location)" and just more clips of fans and Hart's entourage sleeping on a bus. It goes on so long that I almost walked out. I didn't need a Kevin Hart commercial to prove he was a big funny star. I knew this that's why I bought tickets to see his stand-up. I think Kevin Hart is hilarious; this just wasn't his best material. Hart used the N-word way too much for my taste, but that's the price you pay for a lot of black comedy. I guess they feel that appeals to their mostly urban crowd / audience.