| New Line Cinema | Release Date: October 6, 2000 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
17
Mixed:
16
Negative:
6
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If Lee's intention was to cement our loathing of blackface comedy, he's succeeded all too well.
Nothing seriously detracts from the film's overall brilliance.
Ends with a fizzle, not a bang.
Starts out hilarious and then turns very, very grim.
Collapses under its own contempt.
Angry, potentially offensive movie.
By the end, we simply have no idea what he (Lee) feels or what the film is really about. And we are too worn out to care.
It's a film about dumbing down that has the effect of wising up its audience.
A frustratingly uneven satire with undeniably sharp teeth, isn't afraid to shoot comic darts at its targets until blood is drawn.
Lee's incendiary and brilliant new film.
Though Spike Lee would clearly like this movie to remind you of ills-of-TV satires like A Face In The Crowd and Network (there's a spin on the well-remembered "mad as hell" speech), it comes out as a weird, unsatisfying hybrid of Robert Downey Sr.'s Putney Swope and Mel Brooks's The Producers.
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