Martin Lawrence Live - Runteldat (Widescreen Edition)
Prudes won't survive a single minute ofMartin Lawrence Live:  Runteldat, but those who brave the journey will be duly--albeit  conditionally--rewarded. This is surely the dirtiest comedy performance ever  released to the general public, but beneath his barrage of profanity, crudeness,  and unabashed sexual material, Lawrence gets into some serious truth about  life's trials and tribulations, to which (he repeatedly observes) none of us are  immune. The title's a hip-hop contraction of "run and tell that," and Lawrence  runs and tells like a seasoned pro, expounding on his own misdeeds (arrest for  disturbing the peace, substance abuse, his heatstroke-induced coma) and mining  comedic gold from the hazards of marital candor under the influence of  Courvasier. Lawrence is a better actor than a writer--his material's  inconsistent, but his delivery is lose-your-lunch hilarious, digging gems of  keen observation from life's messiest details. One might wish for greater  substance, but Lawrence canrunteldatwith a righteous guilt-free  conscience.--Jeff Shannon