Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Libramedi Intense, gripping, stylish and poignant

BeSummers Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

SyNcDiT Camerainup I thought this was one of the very few works that challenges the viewer to answer valid questions of them selves. Particularly I felt the address was to African Americans(Blacks)and the Question was this: Are you entertainment or are you human?To me it clearly stated the contributions African Americans have made to their own stereotypical position in American Society, Illustrating that the power to minimize these stereotypes rest within the African American 1st. I saw it written in reviews that this film was about "white guilt", I completely disagree. In my viewing I did not find that white Americans were part of the story line beyond atmosphere. This film was written by African American's(Blacks) informatively & the question was posed to African Americans (Blacks, educationally. One of the few films on the subject of Race where guilt was not a factor of either side. Enjoyed It.

kclaydawson Yes, Spike Lee is an excellent movie director. So are others. However, he distinguishes himself with depictions of "black" or "colored" Americans being victimized by "white" society. As in his movie "CSA," Lee dredged up the long dead corpse of slavery to remind everyone that racism abounded in America long ago. What he cannot understand is that segregation and slavery were curses on everyone. "Whites" fought a war over it while "blacks" were still selling their brothers and sisters to slave traders in Africa. The NAACP was begun by white people. So, why must he cling to the bitterness of a past that died long ago? Why not discover what America has become? Either Lee failed to understand the message of Bamboozled and CSA,or he must hate his own race. In CSA, he shows an America that never rid itself of slavery, yet still landed a man on the moon, became a global power, and was an economic giant. The only difference between our country and an America where slave-holding was mandatory was the lack of entertainers and sports. Is that what Lee believes about the races? I hate to tell him this, but there are great entertainers and athletes who couldn't't pass as black. In "Bamboozled," blacks betrayed blacks by profiting from insulting racial stereotypes. They made money by using the "N" word in every sentence. One character claimed that saying the "N" word kept his teeth "white." It certainly lined his pockets. It has lined Spike's pockets. too.So, what has Lee accomplished in this movie? I think that once again he has bamboozled us all.

tonstant viewer Spike Lee is quite open about it - he talks about it on the DVD commentary track.The first major influence (or source) in making this film is Budd Schulberg, the man the film is dedicated to. Budd Schulberg is the son of the former head of Paramount Pictures back in the Golden Age. He wrote the screenplay for "A Face in the Crowd," which attacks TV, and the first great Hollywood novel, "What Makes Sammy Run?," about a climber who sells out his own people in exchange for success in showbiz (Pierre Delacroix wasn't the first and won't be the last). Secondly, there's ample tribute paid to Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay for "Network," the most famous film expose of TV news. Thirdly, there's Mel Brooks' farce "The Producers," which rips the bark off of Broadway.So, the acknowledged pre-existing sources for Mr. Lee's screenplay are Schulberg, Chayefsky and Brooks, all of whom happen to be Jewish. It's nice Mr. Lee has such good taste in choosing his inspiration.However, on screen it's another matter. There are two Jewish characters, Pierre's boss, who is a loutish, insensitive jerk, and an annoying, unsympathetic PR consultant, who is styled to look like Monica Lewinsky. That's all we get; there are no positive Jewish characters to provide contrast to these two.So after having paid tribute to three Jewish writers, Spike Lee then gives us crude racist stereotypes on screen, and not for the first time.If the point of the film, as he says, is to get us out of the box of racism, why can't he get past it in depicting Jewish characters? We hear about how Spike Lee has grown over the years, but how are Thomas Dunwitty and Myrna Goldfarb better than the Flatbush Brothers in "Mo' Better Blues?" If this is an improvement, thanks for nothing.Either you're against ethnic stereotyping or you're not. This industry has given Spike Lee the green light to do what he wants for over 20 years, but apparently, when it comes to vicious caricature, He's Gotta Have It.

PanamaJoe I enjoyed Bamboozled up until the last half hour. The murder sequences turned a smart and poignant comedy into a heavy-handed morality play. After the bloodbath, the comical voice-over narration seemed grossly inappropriate. Besides, the characters' fates were completely out-of-keeping with their roles in the movie. How come Man Ray's business partner got to live and Man Ray died? Man Ray was definitely the more sympathetic of the two. Also, it pained me to see Jada Pinkett Smith's character go from smart, successful woman to crazed, gun-wielding lunatic. I wish they could have just cut out the murder sequences and went straight to the well-conceived-and-executed ending montage.All told, Bamboozled is a good movie that, like nearly every other film made in the last 15 years, would have been better off had they cut a half hour from it's running time. What was it that Hitchcock said about how movies should be timed to the carrying capacity of the human bladder?