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What we learn about Kevin is that family is very important to him. Be it his now wife, his kids who don't got enough edge in his opinion, or his crazy dad. However, ain't no way in hell he would put their life before his own. Ain't no way in hell if his girlfriend is attacked by anything and looks like the next horror movie icon is he staying with her. Hell Nah. Yet he does love them and their eccentric ways. Though sometimes he just has to ask himself, as many of his fans and peers do when it comes to what is next in his career, "What Now?"

Highlights

59 uncontrollable laughs and who knows how many smiles and chuckles. All thanks to jokes dealing with animal attacks, sex toys, the complications of relationships, being a dad and dealing with his dad, and of course the kids who seem like such characters that it is hard to fathom where the truth ends and Kevin's embellishments begin.

The best jokes came from him building off not only his fear of animal attacks but how he would handle if his fiancé at the time got attacked and mauled by an animal – but lived. That joke, as well as lying because the truth isn't believable. Low Points

Some jokes Kevin grinds into the ground to the point they just aren't funny anymore. One joke being about the face and script Black women use when they don't believe a story. Another thing which kind of got lame was how he would repeat the same line over and over. If you're familiar with Kevin's work, part of what makes him funny is the voices he does and his facial expressions. Well, he really drags out what is one of his best assets and plays up to the camera and everything. Problem is, he treats it like a hill and valley type of joke. Meaning, the first time is funny because the expression is new, but then it gets old and you expect him to move on – hence the valley. However, he keeps going and while some find it ridiculous enough to work their way up that hill to a laugh, some like me question when is he moving on and why is he milking this joke for all it's worth?

Overall: On The Fence (Home Viewing)

While longer than his previous stand-up movie, there is this weird sequel feeling to this movie. Like the best jokes and times are behind us and while there is still something there, a strong reminder why you went to the movies to see this, it is just not the same. Which I know is weird to say when I laughed so much, but the jokes build off his family like you should be aware who all these characters are. On top of that, I still have no idea why he has these pre-standup segments. This time around he is parodying the latest bond movie and The Equalizer a little bit. Something that, even with Halle Berry and Don Cheadle assisting, isn't funny nor interesting. It is like a bad opening act which makes you glad once the headliner comes on.

But the reason why I'm marking this as on the fence vs. positive is because it doesn't feel like Kevin really took it to the next level to the point you should leave your home to see this. This just feels like a really good HBO or Comedy Central special that is getting a limited theatrical release just to make some extra money.

The film opens and closes very smartly as a spy spoof with Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, and Ed Helms. Kevin plays agent 0054. I was hoping the whole film would be this way, but alas this was just an add on to his recorded live performance in Philadelphia. His bits included, the raccoon, living with handicapped...a woman without a shoulder, man with no knees, his son who is ruined by private school, visiting father, airport restroom, and Starbucks. His routine works back using material from his opening, as it should.

I did not enjoy the jokes as much as the audience rolling in the aisles. I didn't find his handicapped humor funny or the raccoon story the first time around. He did those bits to set up other jokes which I thought worked better.

Guide: F-word.

This is my review of Kevin Hart: What Now? (spoiler free)

*** (3/5)

AS A COMEDY film star Kevin Hart isn't funny as his annoying high pitched voice takes over the entirety of the movies, and he delivers one high pitched screamed un-funny line to the other horrendously un-funny line. However as an on-stage stand-up comedian he is relentlessly funny; for the most part anyway. After the staggering success of his other live concert movies Let Me Explain and Laugh at my Pain he returns to his home town tour in Philadelphia with more comedic material performing live in front of a record-breaking 50,000 people at Philadelphia's outdoor venue, the Lincoln Financial Field an American football stadium, it is the biggest ever audience for a comedy show as the stadium is at capacity. What Now? opens with an ill-advised short film like sketch directed by Tim Story, no not the director of the Ride Along series, as it stars Hart as a spy named Agent 0054 alongside Halle Berry, unfortunately this is Hart with his usual mannerisms or Hartisms as it relies on poor continuity with the jokes so it delivers more dry laughs as he tries to be funny but drastically fails.

The scene plays in a casino that he has to go into to find a person to infiltrate look out for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo of Hangover star Ed Helms, but the rest of the scene although original is filled with poor continuation, repetition and even a mediocre fight scene with Hart being braver than he normally is and not screaming his lungs out every few minutes. All this takes place three hours before the show, and it ends with Hart covered in blood and changing for the show. Finally he appears on stage with black-on-black attire and some more original material with 50,000 people thinking he is a good. While watching a live comedy performance on such a big stage in front of a massive audience there is always one thing to consider; how funny is the material? Or will it stop funny half way through?

In What Now it relies on some of the simplest pleasures and that is Hart's storytelling as he mainly talks about his personal life with his kids and his wife, whom he calls his lady as we learn that some of the funniest comedy comes that comes from the performer is always comedy about real life places and people. So, Hart takes over the stage shouting, screaming, sweating and pacing telling these relentlessly funny stories about his kids and the camera shows some of the audience holding their head in their hands and crying with laughter.

What follows through-out for most of the entire film is this material about his adored personal life that has quite a range as it starts out being sort of funny, and then continues to be hugely hilarious with every single member of the audience screaming and laughing and even a couple of time can be seen copying some of the lines. This only happens in the first 2/3 of the movie, but unfortunately the last 1/3 relies on drearier storytelling, same old material as he copies some of the same jokes and there are mediocre laughs as some of the audience starts to get a little bored, there are a couple of moments that stick out but none of them will take of the hilarity over the 2/3 of the film. To end it goes back to the ending of the spy sketch and continuing with the poor comedic standard and he wants to take his comedy all over the world and asks will the world think he is funny? So is he funny? It all depends. Despite some of the un-funny Hollywood trappings, in the Ride Along double and some massively ill-advised giant-screen visuals which intend to augment some of his hackneyed routines, Hart's actual stand-up is funny and doesn't rely on too much movie bombast or too heavy of a Hollywood ego.

VERDICT: Hart's third live concert movie is relentlessly funny for the most part with 50,000 people thinking he's hilarious and crying with laughter, but unfortunately the rest of What Now is filled with repetition, poor continuation and dry mediocre laughs.

6/10 mediocre.

" . . . Kevin Hart or Donald Trump?" KEVIN HART: WHAT NOW? is filmed in Philadelphia, site of Hillary's selection as Trump's rival. Don "Falcon" Cheadle is Hart's rival here, as Hart presents himself as "Secret Agent 0054" ," a James Bond Wannabe. Though Hart's diminutive size certainly qualifies him for membership in the Lollipop Guild, Trump's Teenie Tiny hands (which are dwarfed by Kevin's) are far funnier. Trump's delusion of becoming the American Game Show Host-in-Chief also is more hilarious than Hart fancying himself as Bond. Though both Hart and Trump make liberal use of the "P-word," the latter does go on record dropping more "N-bombs." However, Trump's potential access to ACTUAL Nuclear Bombs wipes out Hart's N-Word edge here. Hart tries to up the ante with his hypothetical directive to the imaginary shark to "Clean your plate!" after he pushes his unlucky De-Armed and De-Legged girlfriend BACK into the sea, but Trump's Real Life crass replacement of his original Baby Mom with a smuggled-in foreign porn star to become Our First Lady trump's Kevin's made-up scenario as a far greater hoot! Therefore, as the A-Number-One biggest U.S. joke of a loser, America votes "Trump!" hands down.

I was looking forward to seeing Kevin Hart's new stand up, hoping that he would redeem himself after releasing multiple "buddy cop" movies in the recent years that ultimately are the same thing. Unfortunately I was only let down further with this film.

He lost me right off the bat when the first 15-18 minutes was his SNL monologue from when he hosted the show back in 2013. He added a few things to the bit, spoke as if it had just happened last week, and delivered it virtually the same way as he did three years prior. From then on he continued to degrade his wife by saying he'd leave if she became disfigured. Now I love dark humor, Anthony Jeselnik is one of my favorite comedians, but Kevin Hart just comes off as sleazy when he tries it. This might be due to the fact that it's directed towards his wife/fiancé (or whomever he is with at the time) or towards his younger son, people who he has a direct relationship with. Hart resorted to a lot of cheap lowbrow comedy this time around. He spent a solid 10 minutes talking about having sex with a pocket p****. After that he went into detail about how his body was not responding well to coffee and acted as a very strong laxative. I am not offended by anything he said, he just did not deliver his material in such a way that the raunchy and rude comedy he came up with would be well received. One thing that a good comedian can do is to refer to an earlier joke as a smaller punchline to a later joke. Doing this makes the audience feel as if they are in on an inside joke with the comedian and had you not heard the earlier joke you wouldn't get it. Sort of a "you had to be there" moment that makes it more personal. Hart attempts this and the first time he did it was pretty good, but after the 5th or 6th time he referred to an earlier joke, the moment was lost and so was the humor. Kind of like that one kid in school who says one thing that gets a laugh then continues to use the same joke as a "Hey remember that one time?". It just doesn't work.

The short film he had at the beginning of the special was actually really good. I enjoyed seeing these well known actors appear and get angry and other shenanigans. That part was enjoyable, but again was just Kevin Hart playing the same person he was in his last few action movies.

If you wish to see this movie I totally think you should, just know that if you head into it with high hopes you're most likely going to be let down.

Kevin Hart's new stand up movie was a big hit but was it any good? First of all intro for the stand up was really nicely done. It had a good approach and there was some nice looking scenes with mostly funny situations. Then it took turn to stand up and there was a nice try to to keep it funny. First half of the stand up act was pretty boring and joke were on some very low level and he tried to move crowd with his acting and giving a performance but it was not enough as he just did not deliver jokes as we are used to. Then came second half and he was all over the place, instantly he felt like Kevin and joke felt original giving a good thing to the movie. From that point it was extremely funny and there are some of the best jokes that he ever had. There is a lot of room for improvement and there are things to learn from this movie. Considering there could be a lot of work to do left for him it was alright movie. 2.5/4

I saw "Kevin Hart:What Now?", starring Kevin Hart-Central Intelligence, Death at a Funeral; Halle Berry-The X-Men movies, Catwoman; Don Cheadle- House of Lies-TV, the Iron Man movies and Ed Helms-Vacation_2015, The Hangover movies.

This is another Kevin Hart stand up comedy special-I think his 3rd and he says, it's his last-where he sold out a football stadium in Philadelphia with about 50,000 people in attendance. I'm sure I am in the minority here, but I just did not think it was that funny. I thought Kevin was funny in Central Intelligence and the Ride Along movies. Well, just about all of his other movies, too. But I just don't care for his stand up. FYI: I did not hear anyone else in my theater laugh during the whole movie. Kevin just tells stories about his girlfriend, kids, father and friends. He doesn't really tell jokes. And, he cusses a lot. To me, it just wasn't funny. Now, at the beginning, he does a James Bond styled opening where he goes to a casino with Halle and plays poker. I liked that better. They should have made a whole movie about that. Don plays a fellow poker player and Ed is the bartender. Kevin also imitates a scene straight out of the Equalizer. You know, the one where Denzel takes out all the bad guys in the office in about 18 seconds. Now I will admit, I don't know what any of this has to do with his stand up but I did like those parts. It's rated "R" for language and sexual content-no nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 36 minutes. I would not buy this on DVD. I don't think I would rent it either. If you really want to see it, I would wait until it comes to cable.

What now? That's a good question. Here's something I hope will help Kevin Hart: Perhaps something funny. I hope that because you will not find it in this big turd.

"What Now" is Hart's newest attempt to be funny. He has gone the route of Adam Sandler, Will Ferrell, and David Spade--all three very limited comedians, yet for some reason demanded top dollar for the cow pies they either were in or directed. And they SATURATED the movies with their mugs all the time. This pitiful attempt at comedy demonstrates Mr. Hart has run out of material (if he ever had any). The late Richard Pryor and Bernie Mac could tell stories about disciplining their children that would be hilarious. Kevin Hart tries the same vein in his comedy, and yet falls flatter than a flitter. When you sink to having to use scatological material and poke fun at the handicapped to get a laugh, it's time you were put out to pasture. His ego has finally eaten him, and I'm sure it was a very small meal.

Rated "R" for constant language, "What's Next" wasn't the least bit entertaining.

Schokingly bad. I have been a K Hart fan since before he had his first special. Kevins delivery has always been his strength but in this particular special it is his crutch. Same old story telling w/ a lot of yelling, huge gestures, and classic mannerisms. Again, I am a huge fan of that delivery by him but this really seemed forced and disingenuous. Maybe because he seems out of touch or it was genuinely not funny and boring, I can't quite tell. Either way his last few movie and this together scream washed up. Using to much of the same material and exactly the same format makes me feel like it was just a quick paycheck for him. All in all I am super bummed I was stoked but now un- stoked. Skip it!