For every bit that's flatly derivative ... there's another that connects.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2003

Interminable going, not only because the forward momentum of Griffin's stand-up is routinely interrupted by annoying side trips to visit his porno-loving uncle or his cringing mom, but also because Griffin's material just isn't that funny.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 7, 2003

... Griffin's social commentary is just as piercing and hilarious as the autobiographical stuff.

Full Review | Apr 7, 2003

One of the funnier and, in an odd way, disturbing stand-up concert films in a long while.

| Apr 4, 2003

Highlights some of the best, and raunchiest, of [Griffin's] humor.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

The cross-cutting feels too casual and is mostly executed in a jarringly random fashion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2003

The pacing, the leather suit, the raspy speed rap. Chris Rock and others do it, and as long as Griffin sticks with the shtick he doesn't have much to add.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2003

If Pryor, whose influence is so obvious here, was the big wheel, Griffin is something stuck between the treads.

Full Review | Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 4, 2003

[Griffin's] riffs lack enough insight to qualify as observations and the wit to be considered consistently funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2003

No doubt about it, Griffin is a funny guy and a brilliant mimic. But this concert film, like his early life, might best be put behind him.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2003

The comic subscribes to the unfortunately widely held belief that if it's offensive, it's funny.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

Griffin is quick, smart and funny, and presents the critics with the usual challenge in reviewing a comedy concert: What do you write about, apart from quoting his funniest lines?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2003

When he isn't checking himself -- or falling back on material that Mr. Pryor should receive royalties for because unimaginative comics have traded on it so often -- Mr. Griffin's journeyman efforts prove rock solid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2003

Griffin takes the stage like the Midwestern tornado he is and keeps his audience laughing until the very last second.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 3, 2003

Provides the rare opportunity to sample a comic's material and hang out with the folks who inadvertently shaped it.

| Original Score: B | Apr 3, 2003

If Griffin is often boorish, he also can be wickedly hilarious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 3, 2003

As a big-screen experience, DysFunKtional Family is mostly a drag.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 3, 2003

Griffin isn't untalented, but he seems unpolished, not quite ready to carry the weight of a 90-minute concert film.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 3, 2003

When will these second-rate Richard Pryor-manqus figure out that hateful invective doesn't make for satisfying comedy?

| Apr 1, 2003

Griffin unsuccessfully conceals his contempt for Arabs by calling attention to the legacy of slavery, and so the film repeatedly proclaims that the emperor has no clothes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2003