Product Details

• Actors: Margaret Cho, Bruce Daniels
• Directors: Lorene Machado
• Writers: Margaret Cho
• Producers: Margaret Cho, Lorene Machado, Dennis Sugasawara, Karen Taussig, Nisha Ganatra
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Wellspring
• DVD Release Date: August 17, 2004
• Run Time: 85 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002CHJHS
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #15,947 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Margaret Cho - Revolution" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Margaret Cho does not suffer well the by-now-clichéd expression, "Don't go there." As Cho remarks near the end of her characteristically passionate one-woman show, "I live there. I bought a house there." "There" for Margaret Cho is graphic descriptions of sexual acts, gay and straight, and bodily functions, impersonating a Bangkok sex-show barker, and other matters addressed in her singular frank and explicit style. Two hysterical rants that can be printed here involve being served an Asian Chicken Salad and all the reasons she will never be cast in a period film. Cho Revolution is more fitfully paced than her previous concert films, but she saves the best, and her most righteous anger, for last, when she addresses negative body image, racism, and homophobia. Here, she drops the attitude and gets real. She may be preaching to the converted (a Cho audience is nothing but idolatry), but it is a powerful sermon. Viva Cho! --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

Filmed live at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, REVOLUTION is comedian Margaret Cho's triumphant return to the screen with the same unbridled, no holds-barred humor that infused her previous two concert films. In REVOLUTION, Margaret tackles the axis of evil, her travels through Thailand's red light district, the explosion of child birth, bartering sex for household chores, revolutionizing one's self-esteem, the joy of bodily functions, her loser ex-boyfriend, and of course, her now world-famous mother. Known as much for her social activism as she is for her raunchy humor, Margaret is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon who once again brings her distinctive and empowering personal voice to her devoted and adoring fans. DVD extras include: Bruce Daniels (opening act), Behind-the-scenes, Commentary from Margaret Cho and Bruce Daniels, Clip from "Behind the Revolution" and "Cho Daniels Report", trailers

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sad But True, July 1, 2005

By	Cat Black "Wizard's Hat" (Boston, Mass) - See all my reviews

Sad but true. I can only agree with the other Margaret fans who were just left wondering what was going on when they watched this. I loved the first two DVDs. I'm English and, frankly, not many American comics translate like Margaret. On form, she's phenominal. So what went wrong?

The performance is tired and flat. There is an air of depression hanging over the whole fiasco - including the pre-concert footage. I'm used to her enjoying her work - laughing along with the audience - but on this outing, I don't recall seeing any of her usual joire de vivre.

Yes, there are still some laugh out loud moments. But on the whole, the material is second rate. Too much mugging. And I wasn't amused at any point by the persimmons gag - and as it goes on and on and... It's just crude and unfunny. (I don't mind crude AND funny!)

Most remarkable is her complete failure to reference her weight loss - and so when she goes off on one about body facism it just jars. As for the tacked on "Revolution" manifesto at the end? It just sounded like an afterthought. It wasn't integrated at all.

Don't get me wrong, I admire Margaret immensely. Wish her luck. And hope she comes back with a bang. But please, Margaret, don't release another one like this.

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Heart Breaking, December 12, 2004

By	J. Beauvais - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I've never really been caught up with the private lives of any public figures. But I've got a soft spot for Margaret Cho. Her first two videos were some of the funniest, most honest stand-up I've ever seen. Her accomplishments were fantastic. That she was able to push her way through all the negative social imagry, drugs and alcohol and still be as charismatic as she was really made me like her.

But "Revolution" scared the crap out of me. I felt like i was watching the ghost of Margaret Cho. Skinny, fidgety, and wiping her nose through the whole show, She looked like all the coke addicts I've run into in my life. Her platform seemed to be "Give the audience what they want," and i kept waiting for her to start crying all night. She was unsure of herself and spacey. To be honest, I was concerned. I'm sure she probably had to sign some sort of deal to produce several live tapings of shows, otherwise, I don't think she would have released this one.

I love Margaret Cho's work. I've ranted about it to so many people. But I think she's in a bad place right now, and even though i watched the video two days ago, the imagery is still haunting me.

Whatever this phase is in her life, i hope she pulls out.

31 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Mommy So Embarrassed for You!, September 15, 2004

By	Kevin Kochanski (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This DVD is disappointing. If you're a Cho fan, you'll find something in it to laugh at, but it's by FAR the least of her three movies. If you wondered why this one never played cinemas, you'll know why when you see it. She's very disoriented, and never builds momentum, often bringing the show to a dead halt. She performs the beginning of the show in an elaborate costume, complete with wig and pearls, but never explains what this is for. And yes, she does a routine all about incontinence.

Now I love poop jokes as much as anyone, but any comedy critic knows that props and potty humor mean you're at the end of the line.

Finally, I'm perplexed by the inexplicable halving of Cho's size. She spent all this time in her first two movies talking about how she came to terms with the fact that that's just who she is, how she's shaped. So where did half of her go? She should have built in a funny, self-effacing routine describing her weight loss. Instead, she ignores it, and then at the end lapses into her now-trite sincerity schtick about accepting who we are. I can't help feeling she's a bit of a hypocrite. In previous films, she's led up to the self-confidence sappy portion by being funny about it, and by being sincere...in Revolution, it comes out of nowhere, and seems pat and trite.

Don't get me started on that loser who opens for her. You see clips of his performance before her show, and I wondered if he was just deadpan, using his dryness to effect. Wrong. After watching his full performance (an extra on the DVD), I realize he just has NO STAGE PRESENCE and is utterly UNFUNNY! Not one bit of his act was remotely original or amusing, engaging or even lively. Was this supposed to make Cho seem funnier?

Cho has her moments, and if you're a fan, there will be plenty of chuckles and even a few belly-laughs, so maybe rent this one with low expectations. But I miss the Margaret Cho I know and love. I am not comfortable with this thin, costumed woman, who spends half the show hiding under her ghetto-drag-queen voice for no reason. Where are you hiding The One that I Want, Margaret?