Bamboozled (Blu-ray) R
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 16 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: March 17, 2020
- Originally Released: 2000
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Damon Wayans, Savion Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tommy Davidson & Michael Rapaport | |
Performer: | Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Paul Mooney, Sarah Jones, David Wain, Mos Def & The Roots | |
Directed by | Spike Lee | |
Edited by | Sam Pollard | |
Screenwriting by | Spike Lee | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Produced by | Jon Kilik & Spike Lee | |
Director of Photography: | Ellen Kuras |
Entertainment Reviews:
...[BAMBOOZLED] isn't afraid to shoot comic darts at its targets until blood is drawn....Damon Wayons brings vigorous wit to [his] role...
Rolling Stone
...BAMBOOZLED is a picture of genuine importance....BAMBOOZLED ranks among the director's finest pictures...
Sight and Sound
Rating: 3/5 --
Spike Lee's shotgun attack on the treatment of blacks in television and the blurring of image and identity is a brilliant rant that digresses into repetitive sermonizing.
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Sacramento News & Review
This is basically sloppy, all-over-the-map filmmaking with few hints of self-criticism and few genuine laughs.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 2/5 --
A particularly painful mess, because it begins so well and has such promise.
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eFilmCritic.com
Spike Lee's sharp, riotous satire, from 2000, zeroes in on the grotesque misrepresentation of blacks in American media-and their underrepresentation in the corporate offices that control it.
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New Yorker
...Challenging....Brave and contentious...
Total Film
Product Description:
Spike Lee turns up the controversy notch once again with BAMBOOZLED, a sizzling satire on race and racism within the modern media world. Harvard-educated writer Pierre Delacroix (Damon Wayans), the only black employee on the staff of a struggling television network, suggests the most absurd idea for a pilot that he can possibly imagine, hoping it will convince his tyrannical boss, Dunwitty (Michael Rapaport), to terminate his contract and fire him. However, his plan backfires and his idea--MANTAN THE NEW MILLENNIUM MINSTREL SHOW--finds great success. The show is a stereotypical and racially charged depiction of the tap-dancing Mantan (Savion Glover) and Sleep 'n' Eat (Tommy Davidson), two lazy, homeless black men who spend their days in a watermelon patch. As the show becomes a national sensation, Delacroix, his assistant Sloan Hopkins (Jada Pinkett), as well as her older brother, aspiring rapper Big Black Af' (Mos Def), begin to see the harm the show is causing the community, triggering outbursts with deadly consequences. Shot on digital video, Lee uses his basic premise to mock and accuse today's entertainers (including Chris Rock, Ving Rhames, gangsta rappers, and Lee himself) for being modern reincarnations of the stereotypical caricatures that were so offensive in the past. The result is a biting commentary that is at turns hysterical, absurd, and poignant.
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- Sales Rank: 107,381
- UPC: 715515242615
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