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Margaret Cho Im the One That I | 
 enlarge | Studio: Fox Lorber/Vid Can.
Category: Video
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Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 3343
Format: Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: VHS Tape
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0794201229
UPC: 720917129730
EAN: 9780794201227
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: October 9, 2001
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This concert film becomes gripping, moving, and triumphantly funny when Margaret Cho stops with the "fag-hag" jokes and gets real in recounting her ill-fated sitcom and its devastating effects on her mental and physical well-being. In the spirit of Richard Pryor talking about his infamous freebasing accident in Live on the Sunset Strip and Julia Sweeney discussing caring for her cancer-stricken brother in God Said, "HA!", Cho's account of her ill-conceived 1994 ABC sitcom All American Girl is victorious, a "you go, girl" call to empowerment. Her happiness at finding mainstream acceptance was short-lived when the network expressed concerns about her weight. A desperately insecure Cho proceeded to lose 30 pounds in a month and wound up in the hospital with kidney failure. Even more humiliating was the special consultant hired to instruct her how to appear "more Asian." Cho recalls receiving a phone call after the show's premiere from an enraged Quentin Tarantino, her then-boyfriend, who screamed at her, "They took your voice!" The capper was when her show was cancelled to make room for The Drew Carey Show ("Because he's so thin," Cho asides). Drink, drugs, and promiscuous sex followed, until Cho gave herself a wake-up call. "I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else," she proclaims. "I'm going to succeed as myself." This is the one Cho's legion of devoted fans want. More sensitive viewers are advised to fast-forward through the raunchier bits. --Donald Liebenson
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 Decent material before she really finds her voice May 18, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I saw Notorious C.H.O. before I saw this, and I have to say that her most recent work is a lot better than this, which was recorded in 2000. This one is fairly funny, but seems like a less passionate performance than her "Notorious" performance, which is brilliant in it's topics, her voices, and her FACES!!! Her faces are priceless. This is decent stuff, but if you want to see Margaret shine, get Notorious C.H.O. intstead, where she is much more confident and much funnier...
 FUNNY! January 25, 2004
Margaret Cho's "I'm The One That I Want" is the funniest stand-up comedy DVD or VHS I've ever seen.
 Recycled garbage that retained it's stench! January 14, 2004
Steven J. Jungman (Houston, Texas)
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was a captive audience to this pathetic pile of flotsam and I might just as well have watched any of her earlier futile attempts at humour and gotten equally nothing out of them. Okay then Maggie, we get it, your mom has an accent and you like homosexuals and don't support our president and you're no longer proud to be an American; so who's keeping you here? Keep the politics and inane opinions out of your act and start trying to be funny again instead of just plain sad.
Worth Seeing January 7, 2004
Plano Man (USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Margaret Cho's movie is extremely funny. It's also an occasionally uncomfortable viewing experience. She clearly has a major talent for stand-up comedy which allows her to ultimately triumph over some bad material. The one woman show which has been filmed primarily relates the story of her experience having a primetime network television series built around her stand-up act. Cho, who was in her early twenties at the time, was the first Asian performer to star in a network television series. She wasn't prepared for TV executives pressuring her to lose weight or their complaining that her show wasn't Asian enough or later that it was too Asian. She had to endure rude comments about her weight and racial slurs. The show was soon cancelled. Aside from brilliantly amusing people with her comedic skills, observations, and impressions of Asian stereotypes including her representation of her mother, she has a serious message about the racism and the images of female beauty that prevail in Hollywood and the rest of the country. It will be hard for most people to have the sympathy Cho feels she deserves for the indignities she's suffered because of the way she looks. It's hard to accept that someone as observant and smart as Cho was blind to the obstacles she would face pursuing a television and film career. That said, I did laugh out loud during this movie more than I have at any other in recent memory.
worst peice of crap January 6, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
she is not a funny person and the material sucks!
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