Review of Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005) by Amber M — 05 Aug 2007
Assassin is BORING as HELL. First, the movie wastes about ten minutes on her fans talking about how great she is. Then she spends 3/4 of the time making weak political commentary that she could have gleaned from the one quarter-assed blog of your average college student. Then she throws in some random bullshit to try to gross us out so she can pretend she's offending the status quo. (PineSol pussy, really.) But then she recycles jokes from Revolution (and maybe even Notorious?) and makes them un-funny. She also stole a bit (and general paranoia) from Bill Hicks and, yes, made it less funny. Denis Leary already did that so that makes Margaret doubly un-original on this one. And how come on each DVD, she talks about GLBT people in ever-more stereotyped terms and is loved more and more by the GLBT community for it?
I used to love Margaret Cho. If she could return to comedy and leave the controversial-but-not-really rhetoric behind, maybe I could love her again.
This review of Margaret Cho: Assassin (2005) was written by Amber M on 05 Aug 2007.
Margaret Cho: Assassin has generally received mixed reviews.
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