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Marc Klasfeld (writer)
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18 November 2006 (Japan)
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"The L.A. Riot Spectacular", an equal opportunity offender, is a surreal, funny, and provocative view of the participants and psychology that fueled the epochal 1992 events. | add synopsis
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Snoop Dogg | ... | The Narrator |
 | T.K. Carter | ... | Rodney |
 | Charles S. Dutton | ... | The Mayor (as Charles Dutton) |
 | Emilio Estevez | ... | Officer Powell |
 | George Hamilton | ... | The King of Beverly Hills |
| Charles Durning | ... | The Lawyer |
 | Christopher McDonald | ... | Officer Koon |
 | Jonathan Lipnicki | ... | Tom Saltine Jr. |
 | Ted Levine | ... | Tom Saltine |
 | William Forsythe | ... | George Holliday |
 | Ronny Cox | ... | The Chief |
 | Jude Ciccolella | ... | The Assistant Chief |
 | Ron Jeremy | ... | Arrestee |
| Tabitha Stevens | ... | Officer |
| Shay Roundtree | ... | Lil Monster |
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Rated R for pervasive language, violence, some sexual content and brief drug use.
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USA:80 min | Japan:74 min
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It's weak and obvious, with only modest production values, a ham-handed script, and labored humor. If the director and writer were sophomores in high school, I'd give them very high marks, but they're not. There are some good actors here, although it's a challenge to see that.
So what's wrong with it? Satire is supposed to give the viewer a dose of reality and then, with subtlety and taste, twist it. This movie takes the most obvious idea and walks with it... oh... so... slowly. You get it. You GET IT. But it just keeps going. It's like any of a thousand of bad Saturday Night Live skits, where in the first twenty seconds all comedic juice has been squeezed out of that lemon... but no: you've got another ten minutes. And then a commercial.
I'd suggest that if you get it for free (for god's sake, don't spend any money on it), you watch it long enough to figure out that it's not worth the time you spent; after, you'll wonder why you wasted that half-hour of your life.