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"Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up"
Reviewer:
Wayne Klein
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Genre: Comedy
Release:
11/28/06
Special Features: Commentary tracks, deleted scenes, two featurettes, music video
Review:

Jaime Kennedy is best known for his appearences in the "Scream" films and his comedy act. This short lived series on MTV chronicled Kennedy's attempt to break into the rap world with his partner in crime Stuart Stone. Neither one of them looks like your typical rapper nor do they should like it which probably is why they weren't really successful at it. Mixing low brow comedy rap with serious material that is difficult to take at face value. Consisting of seven episodes the series appears on DVD with substantial extras given the limited amount of episodes shot. ---

Image & Sound:

Like a lot of material shot on the cheap with video the show looks EXACTLY as it appeared on the MTV network. Audio is presented in 2.0 with pretty decent stereo separation most of the time. ---

Special Features:

Every episode has a commentary track by Kennedy, Stone and director George Vershooer. We also get a featurette "Lighting the Fuse" that consists primarily of interviews shot for MTV. "Rappin' with Jaime and Stu" another featurette appears along with the video for "Rolling with Bob Sagat". There is also 45 minutes of deleted footage and extended scenes as well as an interview section featuring George Lucas(!), Ed McMahon, Bob Saget and Ice T among others. Finally we get a 30 minute informerical selling the CD they made as part of the package.

Final Words:

Like all reality shows there are moments of unintentional humor which balances out the intentional stuff quite well. This is a fascinating mixture of satire on rap and "mockumentary" on the process of being a rap star.

 

 
 
 
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