Dave Chappelle's Block Party deserves an Academy Award nomination for truth in advertising, with an emphasis on "party."

The mix of interviews, performances and shtick may make for a loosey-goosey movie, but its "wish-you-had-been-there" quotient is off the chart.

"This is the concert I've always wanted to see," says Chappelle, who recruits Mos Def, Kanye West, Erykah Badu and Talib Kweli, among others, to perform outdoors and in the rain.

Chappelle even scores a Fugees reunion.

Filmed in 2004 before Chappelle went "crazy," it offers no insight into or evidence of his pending decision to leave it all including $50 million in contractual obligations behind. In fact, outside of having his name on the title, he is just a supporting player.

But what we do see of him, as he travels to his hometown in Ohio to recruit a racially mixed group of Buckeyes to travel by bus to the concert in Brooklyn, or kibitzes backstage with musicians or onstage with the crowd, offers a glimpse of why he is so popular.

As a person, he's got the common touch, and as a performer, he can effortlessly switch between improvisational stream of consciousness and stand-up disciplines.

And the dude clearly loves good music, plays a little piano himself and sees musicians and comics as two sides of the same coin.