Bamboozled - 2000
Writer and director Spike Lee casts his satiric gaze on racism in American television and how America's racist past still impacts the present in this biting comedy. Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) is an astu... More »
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Oct 6, 2000 ... (The use of the word is addressed critically in Stevie Wonder's theme song for ''Bamboozled'') In one of the movie's funniest and most ...
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Read Bamboozled movie review from Contactmusic .... Welcome to a piece of American history. In the old music hall white comedians and... ... Spike Lee's Bamboozled works as angry satire, asking that we not forget the offensive and disturbing corners of our history. Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans) is ... Comment on this review...
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Read Bamboozled movie review from Contactmusic by RB, including Bamboozled information, star rating and more ... But the movie's equilibrium is all out of whack because as a writer and a director Lee can't seem to stick to parody and let the material speak for itself. ... Comment on this review...
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Bamboozled movie reviews, trailers - Check out Rotten Tomatoes Bamboozled clips, pictures, critic and user reviews, forums and the Tomatometer! ... Consensus: Bamboozled is too heavy-handed in its satire and comes across as more messy and overwrought than biting. ... Get This Movie...
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Discrimination between blacks and whites in America today is as hot a topic as ever and Director Spike Lee takes us on a psychedelic mind trip illustrating the complexities of Black-White interactions with Bamboozled. ... Movie ramblings || Ram Samudrala || me@ram.org...
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''Bamboozled'' is, in its own spiked way, Lee's version of a Dogma movie (''Celebration'' was an influence). But it's also his own angrier, less persuasive version of the revolutionary TV series ''In Living Color'' -- ... Movie Review Bamboozled (Oct 06, 2000) | Lisa Schwarzbaum ... Video Review Bamboozled | Troy Patterson...
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Similarly, in Bamboozled I don't really buy the idea that blackface and ancient racist stereotypes could become such a hit in America; even if Lee is using it as a reductio ad absurdum in theory, in practice and at such length it strains credulity (another reason why the movie needed to be shorter). ... Bruno (DVD Review);
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For the only time in the movie, Bamboozled slows down to a normal, even subdued, pace, and Delacroix drops the French accent and pretentious manner. It's as if Delacroix (and Lee) is finally on comfortable ground--he's speaking a language he knows and, more importantly, he knows that the people around him understand.
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