BAMBOOZLED (2000) ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Spike Lee
Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett-Smith,
Michael Rappaport, Tommy Davidson, Mos Def
Spike Lee's ferocious black-face satire about an African-American television producer who develops a turn-of-the-millennium minstrel show, and what happens when the show becomes a runaway hit. Lee pulls no punches, takes no prisoners, just seizes everything he can grab from America's racist cultural past and slaps you upside the head with it. And he has the artistry to pull it off. Savagely funny and, if you'll excuse the expression, extremely dark.
