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Wes's Grade: B-
Loose and raunchy, "Top Five" is right up Rock's alley
Chris Rock is a brilliantly sharp, smart comedian, though some of his movie choices don't always reflect that (I know you're friends with Sandler, but if he asks again, it's OK to tell him no). That should change with the charmingly dirty and loose new comedy "Top Five," but it could because he directs and writes the movie himself. The movie tells the story of New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen (Rock), whose unexpected encounter with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces him to confront the comedy career-and the past-that he's left behind. Directed and written by and starring Rock, the witty, raunchy and mostly enjoyable "Top Five" should appeal to Rock's fan base. It's essentially an extended stand-up session with a little plot that gets in the way, but riffing on a variety of different subjects with Dawson, mostly on relationships (and how the movie "Planet of the Apes" contributed to Martin Luther King's assassination, among many others), is Rock's specialty, and it will have you cracking up in many parts of the movie. He seems to have a wide array of famous friends, from the likes of Sandler, Whoopi Goldberg, Taraji P. Henson to Sherri Shepherd, Tracy Morgan and Cedric the Entertainer, all of whom either cameo or play some silly part in it, all of which seems rather unnecessary given that he and Rock's conversations are the highlight of an otherwise plotless movie (and the film's funniest - and most raunchy - scene involves Dawson with a tampon covered in hot sauce). The entertaining "Top Five" provides some solid laugh-out loud laughs and is definitely worth it if you enjoy Chris Rock, just don't let the movie get in the way of the comedy.
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