Carmen : Hip Hopera

Original title: Carmen: A Hip Hopera

TV Movie
2001
PG-13
1h 28m

IMDb RATING

4.7/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

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Drama Musical

A contemporary, urban retelling of the classic story, Carmen: A Hip Hopera follows the life of a police sergeant whose world is turned upside down when an irresistible woman enters his life.A contemporary, urban retelling of the classic story, Carmen: A Hip Hopera follows the life of a police sergeant whose world is turned upside down when an irresistible woman enters his life.A contemporary, urban retelling of the classic story, Carmen: A Hip Hopera follows the life of a police sergeant whose world is turned upside down when an irresistible woman enters his life.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

4.7/10

1.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 nomination total

Carmen Brown
(as Beyoncé Knowles)

Yasiin Bey

Lt. Miller
(as Mos Def)

Rah Digga

Rasheeda

Joy Bryant

Nikki

Wyclef Jean

Fortune Teller

Da Brat

Narrator

Jermaine Dupri

Pockets

Shad Moss

Jalil
(as Lil' Bow Wow)

Casey Lee

Blaze

Reagan Gomez-Preston

Caela

Sam Sarpong

Nathaniel

Troy Winbush

Sgt. Tony Porter

Fred Williamson

Yuri Brown

Nori

Maurice G. Smith

Bigg Mo
(as Maurice Smith)

Karen Lynn Scott

Casting Agent

Patrice Fisher

Jealous Woman

Director
- Robert Townsend
Writers
- Michael Elliot
- Roscoe
All cast & crew
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User reviews31

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Featured reviews

mugwug

Side Splitting Hilarity

This movie made me howl with laughter because it was so bad. Bad acting, especially by 'Bouncy' Knowles, bad editing and horrible looking blue screen work. None of the songs were memorable and the 'film' looked like a overlong music video. Robert Townsend did great with Hollywood Shuffle and has gone downhill ever since....give up Robert!

5TDVideo

The music was pretty good, but the movie wasn't

After watching this movie on MTV I came away with one feeling, disappointment. The music is the movie was pretty good, but was lacking a bit in production value. Robert Townsend's direction of the spoken dramatic scenes were very well done, but he tried to be too flashy during the musical numbers. The music should be an extension of the action we see on screen, and should not be cut off from everything else. The music sequences were poorly visualized and at an hour & 20 minutes the movie was just too short. The acting was good, and the story was updated very well. As far as cautionary tales go, this movie was far from the best I've seen, but it was also far form the worst. I give it a 5 out of 10.

1khat-datty

My Review of Carmen: A Hip Hopera

"Carmen: A Hip Hopera" , ranks with some of the "worst" movies ever made!!! Inadequate acting, and the waste of a talented director such as Mr. Robert Townsend. Bizet's "Carmen", and Preminger's "Carmen Jones" were excellent!!! The "third time is a charm", is not the case with "Carmen: A Hip Hopera!!!!! V.King

DunnDeeDaGreat

A great musical

Carmen is a hip hop remake of the classic film Carmen Jones. The film stars Beyonce from Destiny's Child as Carmen. Carmen is an actress trying to make it with the love of Mehki Pfefier. But Mos Def a dirty cop stands in the way. This is one of the best hip hop movies since Krush Groove.

redman9255

Could have been better

This movie was a very good start for MOS DEF for beyonce she should stick to singing. As you watch the movie mos def (Frank Miller)took the whole movie to a different level, while beyonce's acting killed to whole movie, through out the movie it seems she is reading the script word by word. If you like freestyle rap and a TV-movie plot this a very good movie but I WARN YOU beyonce's acting might force you to change the channel.

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Trivia
Record-breaking musician Beyoncé Knowles' debut acting role.

Quotes
Blaze: Hello, I'm Blaze. But my friends call me Case...
[Carmen cuts him off]
Carmen: I know who you are. I'm Carmen.
Blaze: Nice to meet you.
Carmen: Nice to meet you.
Blaze: So what's a fine lady like you doing in Philly? Small town masquerading as a big city.
Carmen: I won't be here for long. See I have dreams... plans.
Blaze: I wanna hear about 'em.
Carmen: [sucks teeth] Pssh. No, you don't.
Blaze: No, really. I'm interested.
Carmen: Really?
[Blaze nods, Carmen puts down drink]
Carmen: Okay. I want to move to LA. I want to be an actress, a star. I want my own movies, my own TV show, my own sitcom.
[laughs.]
Blaze: [Looks up and gestures lights shining.] I can see your name in lights already, like...
Carmen: [Sucks teeth] Don't patronize me.
[Gets up and leaves. Blaze grabs her. She looks at her arm then him as if to say 'get off'.]