When the opportunity arose to review Jamie Kennedy's Blowin' Up DVD boxset, I'm afraid I volunteered with the thought that it would be something that I could watch and then totally and freely mock with no remorse at all.
This is the same guy who did Mask II: Son of the Mask, after all.
Now that I've had a chance to sit down and watch the two discs that comprise the set, discs consisting of the entire seven episode comedic-reality-based show entitled Blowin' Up that aired originally on MTV and the assorted extras that were added into the DVD incarnation, I'm not quite sure how I feel.
Sure, I want to sit and mock the entire thing as being merely a scripted reprisal of what may or may not have occurred to bring about Jamie Kennedy's signing with Warner Bros. and the eventual release of his new rap album, also entitled Blowin' Up on said record label, but I find myself hesitating.
There was a voice in my head, you see, that asked me to reconsider.
While the voice that asked this may be delusional, as are many of the various voices that live in my head, the words it spoke reminded me of the occasional moments where I genuinely laughed at the situation and not the idea of the show itself.
From the opening moments where we see Jamie Kennedy and his ever present sidekick Stu Stone driving about in Kennedy's Hummer and karaoke-rapping along with the radio all the way through the closing moments on the final episode where we see them, err, driving about in Kennedy's Hummer and karaoke-rapping along with the radio during the closing credits, there is something present in this series that I wasn't expecting to find.
Heart.
Sure, Kennedy and the boy-wonder-esque Stone are goofy and utterly ridiculous in their quest to be taken seriously as rappers throughout the entire series, but there is something that rings true and genuine in the midst of all the created goofiness.
No matter how many times their quest took them into contact with people who utterly walked away from their delusions (Kennedy's own management team), nearly choked while laughing at the very idea of it all (Method Man, when desperately asked if he would rap with them on a track to help them gain "credibility"), or simply glared at them incredulously as if thinking they were insane (Bow Wow, when Kennedy confronts him about "taking" his spot on the celebrity basket-ball game at the NBA All-Star weekend), the duo of Kennedy and Stone remain convinced of their own destiny.
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