Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

catesa I know there are a lot of people who absolutely loathe this film (granted, the thought of someone "loving" it is disturbing), but I think that anger is a little mis-directed. Should we be shocked and grossed out by it? Of course. But I don't think the point of "Goodbye Uncle Tom" is merely to make people queasy, as so many of these reviews suggest. One could certainly claim that this is nothing more than a smut film, using slavery as an excuse to be as depraved as possible, however that's fairly reductionist considering how depraved American slavery actually was.And that is where I'm going with this - we Anglo-Americans (particularly if you grew up in the south like me) have typically been taught a hyper-sanitized version of our slave-holding, racist history. Perhaps we find it offensive because we don't want to believe that it's accurate. No matter how cruel and disgusting it is, there is nothing shown in this movie that white Americans didn't actually do to black Americans(rape, brandings, castrations, torture, auctions, pseudo-scientific studies, etc) over and over for generations. These exact atrocities occurred in America for centuries. And as implied by all the smiling, sadistic slave owners and the happy-clappy score, very few white people thought there was anything wrong with it. It was accepted and encouraged. Of course we should be outraged, but how about at our ancestors rather than the guys that actually had the 'nads to show it? My one real qualm with the film is that aside from the Nat Turner sequence at the end, there's very little representation of the resistance, resilience, and pride that so many African Americans maintained through these horrific years. The Kunta Kintes of the time are completely written out, although I recognize that including those stories might distract from the overall point of the film, which I assume is that the self-righteous, hypocritical "Land of The Free" was actually a twisted, obscene hell hole for most of its existence.I still recommend "Roots" for younger audiences, the squeamish, or if you're looking for the black side of the story. But if you can handle the on-screen degradation, the nudity, and the general nightmarish, hopeless state the film leaves you in, it is for my money the most accurate, most undiluted portrait of African-American slavery to ever have been made. But don't be mad at the film-makers. Be mad at the people whose acts inspired this movie.P.S. I recommend the Italian version "Addio Zio Tom" over the American. It includes more about the civil rights movement and makes a little more sense (if you don't mind subtitles).

ptb-8 I saw GOODBYE UNCLE TOM in a cinema in Sydney in 1972, and I would assess that if being released in 2011, it would not get a film classification today and be shelved or banned. The entire purpose of this fake documentary about back slavery in the 19th century in America, is simply to show as much cruelty towards Black men and women as possible. This is like XXX AMISTAD or ROOTS XXX but with extreme distressing gore and astonishing brutality. The two scenes that have stayed with me horribly for 40 years are of a baby being swung into a wall head first and its face smashed to bleeding pulp, and a row of black men having their front teeth knocked out with a chisel, one by one. These two scenes are two of many similar in a film that is a shopping list of cruel images thought up by the producers, not from any other source. So degrading and so bleak, this is a film that really ought to be destroyed. It serves no purpose other than depict bleeding crying distress meted out to young black people of varying ages.

Dan Goodbye Uncle Tom is one of the sickest films that can be seen. It's about the trade slavery in America and Europe in the previous centuries. Watching Goodbye Uncle Tom, I viewed some of the nastiest and most unbelievable scenes that can be seen. Seeing the white men abuses, rapes, humiliates and does everything that comes to his twisted mind was unbelievably shocking, however , the film was boring too and had some moments that made me feel like turning it off, but i didn't, i watched it all the way. The most shocking thing about this film was that all of this has actually happened! It seemed even sicker than those holocaust stories and movies, In those holocaust stories and movies the Jewish people were slaughtered, but they weren't treated like animals that are kept in cages just for profit like the black man were. This film actually shows how the white empires are disgustingly cruel and careless. I can only recommend it to people who like being shocked or like watching shocking historical facts that have happened in the "developing" countries by the "developed" countries. 5/10

julian kennedy Addio Zio Tom: 7/10: Well they don't make them like this anymore and lets face it they never really did. This is really three separate films brought together in a blender set on random. The first film is a highly effective expose on slave treatment and the slave trade in the old south (the slave ship scenes blows Hollywood fare like Armistad out of the water). Using a cast of thousands and exposing practices such as selective breeding that are politely not discussed on American shores (just ask Jimmy the Greek) it simply is one of the most realistic display's of 18th and 19th century slave life ever shown on film. Then there is a second film which is a dated, and looking back rather silly collection, of news footage from the late sixties and early seventies that documents race riots with all the participants speaking in Italian creating an almost Woody Allen feel to the dub (It gives What's up Tiger Lilly a run for its money complete with ragtime music cementing the silliness of what should be serious proceedings.) The last movie is a sexploitation film dealing largely with Mandingo fantasies and containing a copious amount of child porn. (I guess National Geographic rules apply when showing thirteen year old black children naked). Needless to say tasteful does not enter into the conversation. Political correctness is shattered so badly one must feel for those sensitive souls that can't laugh at ridiculousness of the manipulation.Making matters worse the three films are intertwined together seemingly at random with comic buffoonery breaking out during serious scenes (A slave auction is apt to turn into a Benny Hill episode for no apparent reason) and poorly done black revenge fantasies coming, narratively at least, out of nowhere. Anti-white, anti-black and for the sake of inclusion anti-Semitic they once again simply don't make them like this anymore. (It's highly illegal for one thing) Overlong by at least an hour and very poorly thought out in places Addio Zio Tom wears out its welcome but for a short while at least it exposes the truth and makes one think.