Keanu
DVD
Review by Kam Williams
Key
& Peele Co-Star as Slumming Geeks in Fish-Out-of-Water Comedy
Rell
(Jordan Peele) was so inconsolable after being dumped by his
girlfriend that getting high didn't help ease the pain. But then,
while crying on the shoulder of his cousin Clarence (Keegan-Michael
Key), a cute, little kitten appeared on his doorstep.
Seeing
this as a sign of divine intervention, Rell adopted the adorable
stray, which he proceeded to feed, bathe and name Keanu, Hawaiian for
"cool breeze." But after bonding for the next couple of
weeks, his newfound state of bliss ended abruptly with the kidnapping
of Keanu during a break in by members of the 17th Street Blips.
The
Blips are a ruthless drug gang from the wrong side of the proverbial
tracks. So, Rell realizes that to rescue his pet he's going to have
to venture into the heart of the ghetto.
This
is a tall order for a nerd from the burbs totally unfamiliar with the
ways of the 'hood. for some reason, he enlists the assistance of his
equally-geeky cousin, whose wife (Nia Long) and daughter (Jordyn A.
Davis) very conveniently just happen to be going away for the
weekend.
Rell
and Clarence adopt gangsta' alias, Tectonic and Shark Tank,
respectively, before confronting Cheddar (Method Man), the Blips'
bloodthirsty kingpin. They also deliberately abandoned their bourgie
black accents for grammar-butchering Ebonics laced with profanity,
the N-word and lots of double negatives.
Of
course, retrieving Keanu proves to be quite complicated, as not only
Cheddar but a Latino crime boss (Luis Guzman) has staked a claim to
the cat (which he refers to as Iglesias). And it is very important
that the cousins never admit their middle-class roots lest they risk
being exposed as lacking street cred.
Thus
unfolds Keanu, a one-trick pony or, should I say, a one-trick kitty
directed by Peter Atencio, director of 54 episodes of the Key and
Peel TV show. This fish-out-of-water comedy repeatedly relies on the
theme that these guys have no idea how to survive in the slums on the
run from myriad maladroit morons. That running joke gets tired after
about 10 minutes, but the stretch-o-matic skit format insists on
beating the dead horse for another hour and a half.
That's
irritainment!
Fair
(1 star)
Rated R for violence,
sexuality, nudity, drug use, inncessant ethnic slurs and pervasive
profanity
Running time: 100
minutes
Distributor: Warner Brothers Home
Entertainment Group
Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack Extras: Deleted scenes; gag
reel; and Keanu: My First Movie.
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