Robin Williams: Live on Broadway (2002)

It is a performances centric movie

Good movie but grossly overrated

Excellent but underrated film

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

I have been a huge fan of Robin Williams' stand-up comedy going right back to his first HBO special from the 70's (Which I recently watched again, and laughed as hard as I did the first time I saw it). I was convinced to purchase this DVD sight unseen by a friend of mine who saw him on this tour. A little part of me was a bit worried that he might not still have "It" after all those years away from the stand-up stage. I'm glad to say that my fears were completely unfounded. If anything, he got better with age! I was literally in tears from laughing so hard. One criticism I've heard from some people I've shown this DVD to, was his use of coarse language. They say, "That's not the Robin Williams I know". To them I just say, obviously you have never seen his stand-up going right back to the beginning. He's always been like that, definitely for adults only! If you can take it, you will be treated to one the funniest stand-up performances ever!

It was disappointing to hear the F*** word every fifty or sixty seconds, or more. What's Robin's problem? Does he think that he needs to cuss, cuss, cuss to be funny? It would have been a lot more funny if he didn't say that word or a variation of it all the time. It's like he had a bet to see how many times he could say it. I'm just a normal, beer drinkin' American, but I didn't find it amusing. I didn't even finish watching the whole thing. Maybe I would have liked it more back when I was a teenager or something. He is one of my favorite actors and I really like a lot of the movies and other things that he has done, but then it was disappointing to watch this and wonder "Where is that nice, respectable, funny guy that was in the movies that I saw before?"

...you don't like comedy. This is probably Williams' finest. It far exceeded my expectations. He was lively, animated, manic in his expression. You can tell he has fun with it. It's not just work for him. You can tell he's done a lot of preparation work to prepare a huge routine like that. That's a big part of my appreciation for this. Anyone can be funny, but when you're consistently funny is when you deserve to be at the top. All comedy is offensive to somebody. Robin Williams goes way over the top, but he gets away with it because he recovers and continues in another direction, surprising you. He is a very daring man and extremely funny. I highly recommend this.

The hardest thing in the acting business is to make someone laugh. And laugh hard! Robin Williams succeeds with what seems like ease, he just fires one joke after another and around 20% are so amazingly funny you wonder if you ever saw a funnier stand-up performance in your life. He made me realize one other thing - comedians are the philosophers of modern time, they are hardcore critics of current state of politics, drugs, sports, environment, just name it, they have witty and to the spot anecdotes for every subject. Without them we would be so much emptier, they realize stuff that's true just no one else sees it.A brilliant and amazingly funny, (repeat this about 5 times to get the idea just how much), an unmissable performance. 9/10