He’s got to learn a little something about the difference between commentary and reiterating what’s happening on screen.

He actually films himself watching the movie and, obviously, commenting on it. Major props, if you’ll excuse the expression, for the best freakin’ commentary devise I’ve ever seen on a dvd. Somebody taking something held pretty seriously (opera) and fit it into your own style in a humorous way but still respecting the history of the medium. So, on a structural level, he’s almost doing something incredibly clever. He’s also got a villain (Pimp Luscious), clowns Rosie ( LaDonna Tittle) and Randolph (Kelly), and obviously he’s got a complicated love-heptagon among characters that occasionally know each other. Repetition of themed music is taken as purely coincidental until he actually starts branching out. Whether he realizes it or no, he falls into a number of the stock devices found in opera. Kelly is almost onto something with this hip-hopera. In short time, he starts to play up the hip-hopra business with spoken word and ramping up some of the serious elements of what I might laughingly call “the plot.”Īctually, and forgive me please, but R. In any case, around episode 16, Kelly realized that this stuff was ludicrous and he starts to play into it with physical gags and funny characters. And there’s also Gwendolyn’s brother Twan ( Eric Lane) who has trouble keeping his temper. Tomlinson) who is having an affair with Sylvester (Kelly) who is married to Gwendolyn ( Cat Wilson) who is having a brief affair with policeman James ( Michael Kenneth Williams) who is married to Briget ( Rebecca Field) who is having an affair with Big Man ( Drevon Cooks). We’ve got Chuck ( Malik Middleton) who is having an affair with Rufus ( Rolando Boyce) who is married to Cathy ( LeShay N. Kelly‘s hip-hopera, Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 1-22(2005-07), which follows the mixed up files of a number of individuals who are, whether they know it or not, all involved in each others’ lives. It’s sort of like Napoleon Dynamite (2004), but gangster and set entirely to music. Because from minute one onward, it’s the craziest thing you’ve ever seen/heard in your life. You’d think that’d be tedious but you’d be wrong. What we have here is a soap opera lasting about an hour and a half, but set to the same tune repeated 22 times. One slice is missing, now the story’s gettin’ scary, cos he comes to realise that Bridget is allergic to cherry.

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