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| Reggie Watts: Spatial - Interesting in a hey look at this Youtube video I found kind of way. |
Starring: Reggie Watts
Directed by: Benjamin Dickinson
Rated: --/R
Plot
A surreal, experimental, and improvised comedy performance.
Verdict
This isn't exactly a comedy performance, and I was bewildered whenever the camera showed the audience laughing hysterically.
Watts humor is steeped in rhetoric, speaking but not really saying anything. These ramblings are quickly discarded for his musical interludes and a pre-recorded sitcom satire.
The music he creates is impressive, but never really funny. This feels like multiple Youtube videos stitched together. While each clip is a Youtube video I'd show my friends, as a whole this doesn't really come together. As advertised it's an experiment with no destination or point.
Skip it.
Review
This has a unique introduction with Watts climbing through and over the audience as he makes his way to the stage. He punctuates that with a "quick story" that sounds like a conversation on fast forward. It's neat that he can make that sound, but this show is mostly vocal tricks or rhetoric.
Watts uses circular logic to craft thoughts about how he likes "air flights the best of flights because there's something about being in the air while flying." or "Guns are like, it's crazy. guns are like guns. The more you use them the more they get used."
This is broken up with an awkward skit about a family, "Crowe's Nest". It's a satire of sitcoms that's completely strange, reveling in its awkwardness, and concluding with continually more dire circumstances for one of the "characters."
It's certainly unique with a very different sense of humor. Watts frequently sings over beats he creates on a small keyboard and a looping machine. It's technically impressive, though the songs make as much sense as the rest of the show. He even does a beat boxing tap dancing duet with someone that is obviously a plant
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