Average customer rating:
- Frustrating...Should've Been Much Better
- Spike doesn't feed the idiot box
- Spike Lee is probably one of the best director we have, his
- Spike lee never fails to get me thinking
- MY FAVOURITE SPIKE LEE JOINT!!
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Bamboozled (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring:
Damon Wayans ,
Savion Glover ,
Jada Pinkett Smith ,
Tommy Davidson , and
Michael Rapaport
Director:
Spike Lee
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/ Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo` Better Blues/ Crooklyn)
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School Daze
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Get on the Bus
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She Hate Me
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He Got Game
ASIN: B00005A1TJ
Release Date: 2001-04-17 |
Amazon.com
Director Spike Lee has never shied away from controversy, and with Bamboozled he tackles a thorny mix of racism and how images are bought and sold. A frustrated TV writer named Delacroix (Damon Wayans), unable to break his contract, tries to get fired by proposing a new minstrel show, complete with dancers in blackface. But the network loves the idea, and Delacroix hires two street performers (Savion Glover, who is truly the finest tap dancer since Fred Astaire, and Tommy Davidson) whose hunger for success and ignorance of history combine to make them accept the blackface. Despite protests, the show is a huge success--but gradually, the mental balance of everyone involved starts to crumble. As an argument, Bamboozled is incoherent--but how can racism be discussed rationally in the first place? Lee takes a much braver approach: Every time something seems to make sense or make a point, he complicates the situation. At one point, Delacroix goes to see his father, a standup comedian working at a small black club. Delacroix perceives his father as a broken failure. But his father's routine is full of articulate critiques of white hypocrisy, and the older man describes refusing to play the narrow movie roles that Hollywood had offered him, while Delacroix has convinced himself that his minstrel show is actually doing some social good. And what is the effect of the show itself? Lee obviously finds blackface abhorrent, but the minstrel routines are perversely fascinating and Glover's dancing, even when he mimics Amos and Andy-era routines, is outstanding. Most cuttingly, Lee points out parallels between minstrel and contemporary hip-hop personas. By the time it's over, Bamboozled won't have told you what to think, but you will have to think about these issues--and that alone is a remarkable accomplishment. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
Frustrating...Should've Been Much Better.......2007-09-02
If you are going to make a deliberately controversial movie, you had better have your ducks in a row. Spike Lee leaves far too much room for critics to rip into him.
Damon Wayans' silly accent has got to go. In fact, it does. It comes and goes throughout the movie. Distracting. I thought the opening monologue where Damons looks directly into the camera and defines the words satire and irony was disastrous. Why does Lee have Damons do this? Is Spike Lee covering his butt, being condescending or being insecure? In any case, it gets the movie off on the wrong foot.
If the movie had been just a little shorter, I think it might have worked better. At well more than two hours it seems more like a blunt object than a rapier thrust. Satire depends greatly on sharp biting wit. Lee loses impact by making the same jokes over and over. This is doubly unfortunate because the jokes were smarter, sharper and funnier the first time.
Bamboozled makes so many great points about rascism, commercialism, stereotypes, black frustration, hurt, bitterness and sadness that its that much more a shame that it's not a particularly well edited or well acted movie. Like Dave Chappelle, Lee seems to be particularly pointed in showing white people laughing without understanding and ignorant blacks laughing just to feel in on the joke. Only a few seem to comprehend the pain and bitterness behind the broad blackfaced slapstick.
I would love to see Lee take this movie back into the workshop and re-edit it, make it shorter and release a director's cut that would be an incredible finished product.
Spike doesn't feed the idiot box.......2007-06-11
This movie uses satire to tapdance on the abstract line between cultural parody and racial undertones. Only Spike Lee could pull it off in such an entertaining and thought provoking way.
He hits on some vital nerves that pertain to networking and incorporating racial themes into television programs. In this movie, the studio doesn't care about being politically correct, it's all about ratings. Totally sell out to get paid. The programs don't need to be intelligent, as long as America keeps on watching.
Damon Wayans is the creator of the new controversial show, which initially started off as his attempt to get fired. But the show was an immediate success, and he is forced to live with its repurcussions.
Bamboozled is a funny movie, but it also grasps some serious topics. It's very brash and irreverent as it juggles with stereotypes and layers of human compassion.
Spike Lee is probably one of the best director we have, his.......2007-05-26
movies are always original, I don't always "get" them, but they are well done, thought provoking, and full of fresh ideas, not stale re-hashes of other bad movies. This one is no exception, although I didn't quite understand why a smart, good looking, tv executive, living in a beautiful Manhattan condo, making a six figure+ salary, would want to sabotage his own career? And why the two actor/dancers, after being "discovered" and become big tv stars would want to do the same? And why did Jada's brother kidnap one of the dancers and kill him? What was the point? What did it prove? I don't know, but, like I said, Spike does get you thinking. Enjoy!
Spike lee never fails to get me thinking.......2007-05-12
just wanted to know does anyone else see any comparison between the delima of the main character in the movie wanting to quit the show which had become #1 , with its contraversial content conflicting with his morals with that of the real life dilema that caused Dave Chappell to quit his #1 show and run off to South Africa? is it just me or is there something spooky similar about it?
Anyways back to the review ............. great movie, intellectual, provoking, spike lee: genius ....... as always xxxxxxxxxxx
MY FAVOURITE SPIKE LEE JOINT!!.......2007-04-01
This will entertain and half way through massively educate you!!
This is one of those films you will either absolutely LOVE or HATE!!
I personally LOVED IT, the DVD is one of my prized possessions!
Basically if you are interested in the representation of African Americans in the media then this film will interest you. If you couldn't care less it probably wont!
Definitely food for thought....
Just as School Daze opened eyes, this film made me thing seriously about the sacrifices black entertainers make in order to be successful!!
Average customer rating:
- Frustrating...Should've Been Much Better
- Spike doesn't feed the idiot box
- Spike Lee is probably one of the best director we have, his
- Spike lee never fails to get me thinking
- MY FAVOURITE SPIKE LEE JOINT!!
|
Bamboozled
Starring:
Damon Wayans ,
Savion Glover ,
Jada Pinkett Smith ,
Tommy Davidson , and
Michael Rapaport
Director:
Spike Lee
Manufacturer: New Line Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
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| Video
Byrd, Thomas Jefferson
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Davidson, Tommy
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Glover, Savion
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| DVD
| Video
Pinkett, Jada
| ( P )
| Actors & Actresses
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| DVD
| Video
Rapaport, Michael
| ( R )
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Wayans, Damon
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| DVD
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Lee, Spike
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| Video
DVDs Under $14.99
| Today's Deals in DVD
| Special Features
| DVD
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( B )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
Similar Items:
-
Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/ Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo` Better Blues/ Crooklyn)
-
School Daze
-
Get on the Bus
-
She Hate Me
-
He Got Game
ASIN: B00005LO5Z
Release Date: 2001-04-17 |
Amazon.com
Director Spike Lee has never shied away from controversy, and with Bamboozled he tackles a thorny mix of racism and how images are bought and sold. A frustrated TV writer named Delacroix (Damon Wayans), unable to break his contract, tries to get fired by proposing a new minstrel show, complete with dancers in blackface. But the network loves the idea, and Delacroix hires two street performers (Savion Glover, who is truly the finest tap dancer since Fred Astaire, and Tommy Davidson) whose hunger for success and ignorance of history combine to make them accept the blackface. Despite protests, the show is a huge success--but gradually, the mental balance of everyone involved starts to crumble. As an argument, Bamboozled is incoherent--but how can racism be discussed rationally in the first place? Lee takes a much braver approach: Every time something seems to make sense or make a point, he complicates the situation. At one point, Delacroix goes to see his father, a standup comedian working at a small black club. Delacroix perceives his father as a broken failure. But his father's routine is full of articulate critiques of white hypocrisy, and the older man describes refusing to play the narrow movie roles that Hollywood had offered him, while Delacroix has convinced himself that his minstrel show is actually doing some social good. And what is the effect of the show itself? Lee obviously finds blackface abhorrent, but the minstrel routines are perversely fascinating and Glover's dancing, even when he mimics Amos and Andy-era routines, is outstanding. Most cuttingly, Lee points out parallels between minstrel and contemporary hip-hop personas. By the time it's over, Bamboozled won't have told you what to think, but you will have to think about these issues--and that alone is a remarkable accomplishment. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
Frustrating...Should've Been Much Better.......2007-09-02
If you are going to make a deliberately controversial movie, you had better have your ducks in a row. Spike Lee leaves far too much room for critics to rip into him.
Damon Wayans' silly accent has got to go. In fact, it does. It comes and goes throughout the movie. Distracting. I thought the opening monologue where Damons looks directly into the camera and defines the words satire and irony was disastrous. Why does Lee have Damons do this? Is Spike Lee covering his butt, being condescending or being insecure? In any case, it gets the movie off on the wrong foot.
If the movie had been just a little shorter, I think it might have worked better. At well more than two hours it seems more like a blunt object than a rapier thrust. Satire depends greatly on sharp biting wit. Lee loses impact by making the same jokes over and over. This is doubly unfortunate because the jokes were smarter, sharper and funnier the first time.
Bamboozled makes so many great points about rascism, commercialism, stereotypes, black frustration, hurt, bitterness and sadness that its that much more a shame that it's not a particularly well edited or well acted movie. Like Dave Chappelle, Lee seems to be particularly pointed in showing white people laughing without understanding and ignorant blacks laughing just to feel in on the joke. Only a few seem to comprehend the pain and bitterness behind the broad blackfaced slapstick.
I would love to see Lee take this movie back into the workshop and re-edit it, make it shorter and release a director's cut that would be an incredible finished product.
Spike doesn't feed the idiot box.......2007-06-11
This movie uses satire to tapdance on the abstract line between cultural parody and racial undertones. Only Spike Lee could pull it off in such an entertaining and thought provoking way.
He hits on some vital nerves that pertain to networking and incorporating racial themes into television programs. In this movie, the studio doesn't care about being politically correct, it's all about ratings. Totally sell out to get paid. The programs don't need to be intelligent, as long as America keeps on watching.
Damon Wayans is the creator of the new controversial show, which initially started off as his attempt to get fired. But the show was an immediate success, and he is forced to live with its repurcussions.
Bamboozled is a funny movie, but it also grasps some serious topics. It's very brash and irreverent as it juggles with stereotypes and layers of human compassion.
Spike Lee is probably one of the best director we have, his.......2007-05-26
movies are always original, I don't always "get" them, but they are well done, thought provoking, and full of fresh ideas, not stale re-hashes of other bad movies. This one is no exception, although I didn't quite understand why a smart, good looking, tv executive, living in a beautiful Manhattan condo, making a six figure+ salary, would want to sabotage his own career? And why the two actor/dancers, after being "discovered" and become big tv stars would want to do the same? And why did Jada's brother kidnap one of the dancers and kill him? What was the point? What did it prove? I don't know, but, like I said, Spike does get you thinking. Enjoy!
Spike lee never fails to get me thinking.......2007-05-12
just wanted to know does anyone else see any comparison between the delima of the main character in the movie wanting to quit the show which had become #1 , with its contraversial content conflicting with his morals with that of the real life dilema that caused Dave Chappell to quit his #1 show and run off to South Africa? is it just me or is there something spooky similar about it?
Anyways back to the review ............. great movie, intellectual, provoking, spike lee: genius ....... as always xxxxxxxxxxx
MY FAVOURITE SPIKE LEE JOINT!!.......2007-04-01
This will entertain and half way through massively educate you!!
This is one of those films you will either absolutely LOVE or HATE!!
I personally LOVED IT, the DVD is one of my prized possessions!
Basically if you are interested in the representation of African Americans in the media then this film will interest you. If you couldn't care less it probably wont!
Definitely food for thought....
Just as School Daze opened eyes, this film made me thing seriously about the sacrifices black entertainers make in order to be successful!!
Product Description
BAMBOOZLED (OMAR & THE HOWLERS)
Description
Actor Richard Gere and director Robert Altman discuss their latest film, Dr. T and the Women, which follows the story of a successful gynecologist, played by Gere, whose personal life is spinning out of control. Then, director Spike Lee talks about his new film, Bamboozled, about a Harvard-educated executive who creates a modern-day minstrel show that turns out to be a hit, the public's perception of him and his beloved Knicks.
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Bamboozled
Starring:
Omar & Howlers
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
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| DVD
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( B )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
ASIN: B000GCG6BE
Release Date: 2006-07-11 |
Average customer rating:
- Frustrating...Should've Been Much Better
- Spike doesn't feed the idiot box
- Spike Lee is probably one of the best director we have, his
- Spike lee never fails to get me thinking
- MY FAVOURITE SPIKE LEE JOINT!!
|
Bamboozled [Region 2]
Starring:
Damon Wayans ,
Savion Glover ,
Jada Pinkett Smith ,
Tommy Davidson , and
Michael Rapaport
Director:
Spike Lee
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD
General
| Comedy
| Genres
| DVD
| Video
Byrd, Thomas Jefferson
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| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Davidson, Tommy
| ( D )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Glover, Savion
| ( G )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Pinkett, Jada
| ( P )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Rapaport, Michael
| ( R )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Wayans, Damon
| ( W )
| Actors & Actresses
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
Lee, Spike
| ( L )
| Directors
| Stores
| DVD
| Video
( B )
| Titles
| Features
| DVD
| Video
Similar Items:
-
Spike Lee Joint Collection (Clockers/ Jungle Fever/ Do the Right Thing/ Mo` Better Blues/ Crooklyn)
-
School Daze
-
Get on the Bus
-
She Hate Me
-
He Got Game
ASIN: B000057X1Q |
Amazon.com
Director Spike Lee has never shied away from controversy, and with Bamboozled he tackles a thorny mix of racism and how images are bought and sold. A frustrated TV writer named Delacroix (Damon Wayans), unable to break his contract, tries to get fired by proposing a new minstrel show, complete with dancers in blackface. But the network loves the idea, and Delacroix hires two street performers (Savion Glover, who is truly the finest tap dancer since Fred Astaire, and Tommy Davidson) whose hunger for success and ignorance of history combine to make them accept the blackface. Despite protests, the show is a huge success--but gradually, the mental balance of everyone involved starts to crumble. As an argument, Bamboozled is incoherent--but how can racism be discussed rationally in the first place? Lee takes a much braver approach: Every time something seems to make sense or make a point, he complicates the situation. At one point, Delacroix goes to see his father, a standup comedian working at a small black club. Delacroix perceives his father as a broken failure. But his father's routine is full of articulate critiques of white hypocrisy, and the older man describes refusing to play the narrow movie roles that Hollywood had offered him, while Delacroix has convinced himself that his minstrel show is actually doing some social good. And what is the effect of the show itself? Lee obviously finds blackface abhorrent, but the minstrel routines are perversely fascinating and Glover's dancing, even when he mimics Amos and Andy-era routines, is outstanding. Most cuttingly, Lee points out parallels between minstrel and contemporary hip-hop personas. By the time it's over, Bamboozled won't have told you what to think, but you will have to think about these issues--and that alone is a remarkable accomplishment. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
Frustrating...Should've Been Much Better.......2007-09-02
If you are going to make a deliberately controversial movie, you had better have your ducks in a row. Spike Lee leaves far too much room for critics to rip into him.
Damon Wayans' silly accent has got to go. In fact, it does. It comes and goes throughout the movie. Distracting. I thought the opening monologue where Damons looks directly into the camera and defines the words satire and irony was disastrous. Why does Lee have Damons do this? Is Spike Lee covering his butt, being condescending or being insecure? In any case, it gets the movie off on the wrong foot.
If the movie had been just a little shorter, I think it might have worked better. At well more than two hours it seems more like a blunt object than a rapier thrust. Satire depends greatly on sharp biting wit. Lee loses impact by making the same jokes over and over. This is doubly unfortunate because the jokes were smarter, sharper and funnier the first time.
Bamboozled makes so many great points about rascism, commercialism, stereotypes, black frustration, hurt, bitterness and sadness that its that much more a shame that it's not a particularly well edited or well acted movie. Like Dave Chappelle, Lee seems to be particularly pointed in showing white people laughing without understanding and ignorant blacks laughing just to feel in on the joke. Only a few seem to comprehend the pain and bitterness behind the broad blackfaced slapstick.
I would love to see Lee take this movie back into the workshop and re-edit it, make it shorter and release a director's cut that would be an incredible finished product.
Spike doesn't feed the idiot box.......2007-06-11
This movie uses satire to tapdance on the abstract line between cultural parody and racial undertones. Only Spike Lee could pull it off in such an entertaining and thought provoking way.
He hits on some vital nerves that pertain to networking and incorporating racial themes into television programs. In this movie, the studio doesn't care about being politically correct, it's all about ratings. Totally sell out to get paid. The programs don't need to be intelligent, as long as America keeps on watching.
Damon Wayans is the creator of the new controversial show, which initially started off as his attempt to get fired. But the show was an immediate success, and he is forced to live with its repurcussions.
Bamboozled is a funny movie, but it also grasps some serious topics. It's very brash and irreverent as it juggles with stereotypes and layers of human compassion.
Spike Lee is probably one of the best director we have, his.......2007-05-26
movies are always original, I don't always "get" them, but they are well done, thought provoking, and full of fresh ideas, not stale re-hashes of other bad movies. This one is no exception, although I didn't quite understand why a smart, good looking, tv executive, living in a beautiful Manhattan condo, making a six figure+ salary, would want to sabotage his own career? And why the two actor/dancers, after being "discovered" and become big tv stars would want to do the same? And why did Jada's brother kidnap one of the dancers and kill him? What was the point? What did it prove? I don't know, but, like I said, Spike does get you thinking. Enjoy!
Spike lee never fails to get me thinking.......2007-05-12
just wanted to know does anyone else see any comparison between the delima of the main character in the movie wanting to quit the show which had become #1 , with its contraversial content conflicting with his morals with that of the real life dilema that caused Dave Chappell to quit his #1 show and run off to South Africa? is it just me or is there something spooky similar about it?
Anyways back to the review ............. great movie, intellectual, provoking, spike lee: genius ....... as always xxxxxxxxxxx
MY FAVOURITE SPIKE LEE JOINT!!.......2007-04-01
This will entertain and half way through massively educate you!!
This is one of those films you will either absolutely LOVE or HATE!!
I personally LOVED IT, the DVD is one of my prized possessions!
Basically if you are interested in the representation of African Americans in the media then this film will interest you. If you couldn't care less it probably wont!
Definitely food for thought....
Just as School Daze opened eyes, this film made me thing seriously about the sacrifices black entertainers make in order to be successful!!
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