soulsanga_of_lyfe
Carmen:Hip Hopera. The movie is off the hook. It stars some of the hottest artist in the music biz. To Jermaine Dupri all the way to the Beautiful Beyonce Knowles. I mean the movie is great for African Americans. It showed how us as Black people can really show our talent. What i mean is that we've taking an opera play or show and made it into a Hip Hopera. All i can say is that it came out Amazing from the beginning to the end, but i was disappointed when Carmen (Beyonce) died in the movie, but its all cool though. Still the movie was great, the rhymes were of the chain, and everybody played their role right. In my opinion Carmen deserves at least a 9 in my perspective. And i would definitely buy the movie.
tubajmc
This was one of the dumbest ideas MTV has come up with. I just thank god that it bombed so badly that they never think of doing a "Hip Hopera" again. Hip-Hop is a simple musical form, and trying to combine it with Opera and making musical theatre out of it is probably one of the worst ideas imaginable. I hated hated hated hated hated this film. Hated every minute of my time it wasted. Hated every agonizing, taste reducing minute of it. Don't watch this. Unless you want to beat your head up against the wall and waste an hour trying to plead for the time you wasted watching it.
funkyfry
Poorly acted, unconvincing "modern" adaption of Bizet's classic opera. Saddled with a two-dollar production look and a cast of (with the exception of Phifer) unprofessional actors. One fairly interesting bit is a few parts which actually set Bizet's music to raps, which only works intermittently. Inferior to both the original and Oscar Hammerstein's similarly overblown 1950s adaption (filmed, if I remember right, memorably by Otto Preminger).
All fans of musicals should avoid it, even though it holds out the promise of being a new type of musical. All fans of hip hop should avoid it, because it forces a cast that is incredibly talented in musical areas to act with hokey dialogue and no direction. It should especially be taken on for taking Mos Def, a genius of lyrics, and making him rap to mediocre lines written by some bozo the clown. Townsend should really be taken to the cleaners over this, and in the future he should probably be advised to look the other way when offered TV productions with a look like my mama's basement (and she hasn't got one, folks).�
khat-datty
"Carmen: A Hip Hopera" , ranks with some of the "worst" movies ever made!!! Inadequate acting, and the waste of a talented director such as Mr. Robert Townsend. Bizet's "Carmen", and Preminger's "Carmen Jones" were excellent!!! The "third time is a charm", is not the case with "Carmen: A Hip Hopera!!!!! V.King
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