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  • @forthenight3265
    @forthenight3265 10 місяців тому +845

    It should have stayed a key and Peele sketch lmaooo

    • @lilmissknowitall5775
      @lilmissknowitall5775 10 місяців тому +70

      that was a great sketch, more clever in 2 mins than the whole film

    • @seangalvin4582
      @seangalvin4582 10 місяців тому +13

      I was thinking- this could have been a SNL sketch. I didn't know that it was a sketch already. I'm going to look it up.

    • @forthenight3265
      @forthenight3265 10 місяців тому +35

      @@seangalvin4582 full disclosure, the movie isn't based off the sketch, but they have similar concepts that were done better in the sketch

    • @user-dr2yz8um3d
      @user-dr2yz8um3d 10 місяців тому +10

      The love story should’ve been cut out entirely
      I didn’t like that part of the trailer

    • @Labcabin96
      @Labcabin96 10 місяців тому +4

      there can only be one....

  • @joshjacks2837
    @joshjacks2837 10 місяців тому +185

    There is a scene where they are literally talking about the origins of the Magical Negro society and the movie goes 'that's not important, let's give you some more information about this office romance'.

    • @realtalk8665
      @realtalk8665 9 місяців тому +2

      Great film you got played if didn't watched because of a trailer

  • @natedoggcata
    @natedoggcata 10 місяців тому +509

    Who the fuck thought casting Justice Smith for a romantic comedy was a good idea? Dude has the charisma of a box of thumbtacks

    • @A_YouTube_Commenter
      @A_YouTube_Commenter 10 місяців тому +76

      No. A pat of margarine. Thumbtacks are sharp.

    • @IMZ44
      @IMZ44 10 місяців тому +46

      Damn, homie, that's cold-blooded and hilarious.

    • @andrewcutler1380
      @andrewcutler1380 10 місяців тому +78

      Or casting him in the context of white people being intimidated by him due to his blackness? They should’ve gotten a Wesley Snipes type for this.

    • @TriggerCL
      @TriggerCL 10 місяців тому +56

      He plays himself in every movie

    • @ddbob1
      @ddbob1 10 місяців тому +27

      I actually love him and I love having the awkward quirky loser, a real one not just a hot guy in glasses, as a romantic love interest. However this was unnecessary and uncalled for.

  • @AllanDanja
    @AllanDanja 10 місяців тому +208

    Still a shame They Cloned Tyrone didn't get a theatrical release but this does

    • @themightyjim3614
      @themightyjim3614 10 місяців тому +18

      I forgot that film existed

    • @samuelwetz8378
      @samuelwetz8378 10 місяців тому +19

      A better movie!

    • @El_oh7199
      @El_oh7199 10 місяців тому +25

      It actually did get a one week release in my city. I was in the theater with one confused white lady who walked out after 5 minutes. She missed a damn good movie

    • @DDarkestKnight
      @DDarkestKnight 10 місяців тому +6

      It saved it from becoming a box office flop

    • @zod4365
      @zod4365 10 місяців тому +5

      ​@DDarkestKnight how?!?

  • @chination1796
    @chination1796 10 місяців тому +330

    I thought it was gonna be like a Black version of Hogwarts from Harry Potter 😂

    • @superrazor7617
      @superrazor7617 10 місяців тому +41

      way better movie

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 10 місяців тому +46

      That sounds like a more entertaining movie.

    • @Anthonydavis65
      @Anthonydavis65 10 місяців тому

      Hell Key and Peele did both in their show the magical negro skit and harry potter for black people and it was funny smh what a waste

    • @bearerofbadnews1375
      @bearerofbadnews1375 10 місяців тому +8

      It’s a comic called “Excellence” although the story it tells is less than excellent.

    • @evitagiron
      @evitagiron 10 місяців тому +2

      That’s what I thought lol

  • @octbaby88
    @octbaby88 10 місяців тому +401

    Us in the black delegation already decided that we were not going to watch this movie. Now, seeing these reviews, we are glad we didn't...lol

    • @TabathaTMartin
      @TabathaTMartin 10 місяців тому +17

      Amen, this and Kung Fu Panda 4

    • @octbaby88
      @octbaby88 10 місяців тому +12

      @@TabathaTMartin Wait...what happened with Kung Fu Panda 4? I didn't see it.

    • @Birdyboys
      @Birdyboys 10 місяців тому +19

      @@octbaby88movie is unfortunately a hot mess. Not terrible but it has some sloppy production that shows in the actual film. Like the villains backstory being last minute.

    • @kerry-j4m
      @kerry-j4m 10 місяців тому +6

      Same for me also. LOL. Watching the trailer I knew this movie was gonna be-TRASH.

    • @Thisisjustname
      @Thisisjustname 10 місяців тому +4

      I know I'm wasting my time after seeing the trailer.

  • @Agrellar
    @Agrellar 10 місяців тому +182

    I do like Justice Smith, but what if this movie was about David Alan Grier doing this job for so long, and actually trying to live his own life after sacrificing his youth and happiness for white people. Like he wants to retire, but being older, he's at his most requested since old black men were some of the most "beloved" of the trope. So he could be finding love, but also making friends, finding hobbies, finding himself again, because this job stripped him of his identity for decades.

    • @Gchildwarrior
      @Gchildwarrior 10 місяців тому +30

      This should have been the movie!!!

    • @LeveySaintil
      @LeveySaintil 10 місяців тому +15

      That one, that’s the real movie right there. We’re in the timeline with the bad version:(…

    • @studiomansion7942
      @studiomansion7942 10 місяців тому +4

      They're saving that for the sequel.

    • @OmniMale
      @OmniMale 10 місяців тому

      What cracks me up is Justice is half white. Just shitting on his own.

    • @OmniMale
      @OmniMale 10 місяців тому +5

      There was a show like that. White ppl did it in a way. It's called Renfield. Sidekick develops depth and identity.
      I firmly believe that there are only 5 original scripts in Hollywood. Everything else is a remake. Libii could have made the movie you're talking about and it would have been poignant and deep. Could even still have made it a comedy.

  • @Social_Pugatory
    @Social_Pugatory 10 місяців тому +77

    I thought this was gonna be like the Black version of the sorcerer's apprentice 2010. When the trailer came out I knew I was not watching this movie. This is the movie you get if the rapper Logic was a director exploring his mixed identity crisis through film.

    • @hope-cat4894
      @hope-cat4894 10 місяців тому +8

      I love all the better movie ideas people thought this film was gonna be. 😆

    • @zionsutherland6312
      @zionsutherland6312 10 місяців тому +4

      Underrated take

  • @albatross4920
    @albatross4920 10 місяців тому +60

    Kory roasting Justice Smith's character is the highlight of this review 😂😅

  • @michaelstrong5383
    @michaelstrong5383 10 місяців тому +158

    This movie feels like the type of story the book awards people from *American Fiction* would come up with.

    • @realtalk8665
      @realtalk8665 9 місяців тому +4

      Seen both films and It would be that type of film

  • @Montesama314
    @Montesama314 10 місяців тому +6

    David Alan Grier should have been the main character. A black man who lost his sense of agency, his greater freedom after decades of assuaging white folks' egos, helping them better their social standings, and cleaning up their psychological problems.
    Something like "I couldn't find a wife because I was helping a white businessman keep his own!"
    The rest of the movie should be that the old guy wants to pass his job down to the younger biracial man, who turns out to have a hidden assertive side and helps the older man question the whole system.

  • @dwayneadamsworld
    @dwayneadamsworld 10 місяців тому +128

    David Alan Grier on the Breakfast Club acting like the movie is super deep

    • @krisj827
      @krisj827 10 місяців тому +34

      I just saw his interview too. I know he's promoting the movie but it won't help.

    • @MrMakingcake
      @MrMakingcake 10 місяців тому +2

      Lol

    • @RGF91
      @RGF91 10 місяців тому +14

      i feel sorry for him

    • @rockb922
      @rockb922 10 місяців тому +18

      And Charlamagne is going along with it, instead of flaming it like it deserves.

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 місяців тому +19

      I love D.A.G., but no no no. 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @Moviebinger1124
    @Moviebinger1124 10 місяців тому +41

    A better stinger would have been revealing that this is a novel that Jeffrey Wright’s character from American fiction was reading and that fuels him to write his joke book and start that whole movie, because it at least would explain how badly this movie fumbled the ball

  • @xelaander8429
    @xelaander8429 10 місяців тому +127

    Martin just can't stop laughing through the first five minutes 🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @mattfleurant9295
    @mattfleurant9295 10 місяців тому +72

    It doesn't help that for the lead they cast someone who's about as threatening as a basket of kittens. I still can't see him (Justice Smith) without thinking of the hipster he played in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom.

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 10 місяців тому +23

      Justice Smith is a vacuum of charm. Even in Detective Pikachu, he was the awkward kid.

    • @mutantmagnet
      @mutantmagnet 10 місяців тому +3

      We can get scared for kittens depending on the situation.
      Mr. Tennis Ball can't elicit a fear response.

    • @GoB1996
      @GoB1996 10 місяців тому +9

      @@michaelstrong5383then they really tried to make him a badass elf in D&D😂 get the bag I guess

    • @JCPRuckus
      @JCPRuckus 10 місяців тому +5

      That's literally the whole point. He gets recruited by The Society exactly because he's such a mouse of a man. But actually being forced to think about how he makes himself invisible and unthreatening makes him realize that he needs to change.

    • @BabyGirlTiny
      @BabyGirlTiny 9 місяців тому

      @@JCPRuckusit would have made more sense if his light skinnededness played a part in white people being comfortable around him. But it didn’t

  • @Anthonycheesman2024
    @Anthonycheesman2024 10 місяців тому +114

    I think everyone was hoping for black hogwarts lol.

    • @Spawnwick_Boseman82820
      @Spawnwick_Boseman82820 10 місяців тому +5

      I did, but I should've known that wasn't the case especially with a name like that

    • @comablack7026
      @comablack7026 3 дні тому

      We’re gonna get that with the Max show, just you wait. Lol

  • @james.b.mcgill
    @james.b.mcgill 10 місяців тому +37

    Justice Smith reminds me of the In Living Color skit "Richard Pryor is Scared for no Reason"

    • @damiendsoul360
      @damiendsoul360 10 місяців тому +3

      You took the words right out of my mouth! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

    • @LadyDuchess
      @LadyDuchess 10 місяців тому +2

      🤣😂🤣

  • @antwanjenkins6735
    @antwanjenkins6735 10 місяців тому +294

    This movie is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with most modern day filmmaking.

    • @lukaszzylik4437
      @lukaszzylik4437 10 місяців тому +16

      I guess it's a matter of perspective. I'm a huge fan of horror and the modern ones have been pretty amazing minus the shitty ones they dump in theaters in January.

    • @KNByam
      @KNByam 10 місяців тому +14

      You can't tell what some movies are about. The movies suppose to be one thing but ends up being about something else. Its like that 2014 Godzilla movie, they barely showed Godzilla but instead their main focus were on people and their boring stories.

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 місяців тому +2

      💯💯💯💯💯 I swear if only....🤦🏾‍♀️

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 10 місяців тому

      How so?

    • @tefnut93
      @tefnut93 10 місяців тому

      just lazy

  • @totallytubular8760
    @totallytubular8760 10 місяців тому +170

    I really didn’t know what they were going for. It felt like they wanted to poke fun at the absurdity of the trope and make a political statement on how damaging it is but didn’t know how to do both at the same time.

    • @EdgeO419
      @EdgeO419 10 місяців тому +17

      This has the stink of the studio interfering too, like shoehorning in a rom com to try and soften the blow of the message of a film like this could do and making sure the lead is the most one note nonthreatening guy they could possibly find.

    • @marcusdavis5599
      @marcusdavis5599 10 місяців тому

      Exactly the problem with American Fiction

    • @leonkuwata4510
      @leonkuwata4510 10 місяців тому +7

      @@EdgeO419 To be fair, casting Justice Smith was the perfect call if that's what they were going for lol

    • @theconsciousobserver6829
      @theconsciousobserver6829 10 місяців тому

      White people are not going to empower Blacks with a real ideas of revolution. This movie is just a joke that white people and Black people can share in on without either feeling offended, even though the entire premise is offensive to Blacks. But I digress

    • @Anthonycheesman2024
      @Anthonycheesman2024 10 місяців тому +1

      @@marcusdavis5599American fiction was actually good lol.

  • @gcolbyp
    @gcolbyp 10 місяців тому +83

    Damn already in the first 3 months of the year, we got 3 F*** Us. 2024 is off to a *great* start for movies...

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 10 місяців тому +12

      At least we know which three movies will be on the "Worst" list at the end of the year.

    • @MattyCamachio
      @MattyCamachio 10 місяців тому

      What were the other two fuck you’s?

    • @gcolbyp
      @gcolbyp 10 місяців тому +16

      Yeah Madame Web, Imaginary and now this. At least we got Dune Part 2 out, and I heard Love Lies Bleeding with Kristen Stewart is really good.

    • @MattyCamachio
      @MattyCamachio 10 місяців тому +1

      @@gcolbyp thank you, I’ll watch the reviews

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 10 місяців тому +3

      Thank God for Dune 2 and The Beekeeper! ❤

  • @TreyMcDonaldAnimator
    @TreyMcDonaldAnimator 10 місяців тому +93

    I'm with Korey on this, it's frustrating. The premise alone could have been anything and everything, a golden opportunity to be unique, diverse, and broken from the status quo. But what they did with it... I'm fully convinced I'm not seeing this, my ass is plopping down to see Ghostbusters. LOL

    • @PhotosaurusFlex
      @PhotosaurusFlex 10 місяців тому +7

      How is this original? It's a key & Peele sketch.

    • @oo4758
      @oo4758 10 місяців тому +8

      Where did you get original from? He didn't mention that word anywhere in his comment lol. No duh it's not original, it's based off of a media trope thats been around for over a century. ​@@PhotosaurusFlex

    • @ShaneyBright
      @ShaneyBright 10 місяців тому

      Cmon. Lets forget this ish. Let's go see Ghostbusters. Want popcorn? 🍿

    • @zenfirebird5360
      @zenfirebird5360 10 місяців тому +1

      Which one?
      Could of, should of, but they didn't and that's the problem with some films. Some use the topic but don't go into it.

    • @TheErikaShow
      @TheErikaShow 10 місяців тому +1

      I approve of Ghostbusters. 👍🏾I refuse to watch this other mess.🔥

  • @Kickinthescience
    @Kickinthescience 10 місяців тому +67

    Blazing Saddles and The Chappelle Show did what they were trying to do and did it better.

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 10 місяців тому +18

      Exactly. Even though it's a western spoof, Blazing Saddles never lost focus of the satire on how ignorant white people can be to other races.

    • @DoodleThis
      @DoodleThis 10 місяців тому +1

      What about Undercover Brother?

    • @Justmyhandle
      @Justmyhandle 10 місяців тому +1

      @@michaelstrong5383 "These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know... Morons." Still gets me every time, especially with Gene Wilder's deadpan delivery. He was a treasure to cinema.

  • @andrewadachi9306
    @andrewadachi9306 10 місяців тому +158

    The movie feels like it's 20 years late and even then it would have been a Wayne's brother parody film that would have been in 10 years outdated

    • @freddied8479
      @freddied8479 10 місяців тому +31

      At least it could've been kinda fun if they just went full comedy instead of going for a message

    • @blackpanthro
      @blackpanthro 10 місяців тому +10

      Wayans

    • @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881
      @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 10 місяців тому +7

      Like when they made who's your caddy, not divisive but still utterly dumb in its laziness while a Wayans bros sketch did it better years before

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 10 місяців тому

      Does Nick Fury have a movie, or is he just a supporting character in every appearance he's ever made?

    • @hope-cat4894
      @hope-cat4894 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@zacharybosley1935 Yes, he has his own character, and Secret Invasion is focused on him (it's not a good show, though).

  • @SuperPal-tr3go
    @SuperPal-tr3go 10 місяців тому +183

    Where's my Black Hogwarts goddamnit?

    • @HaintblueRee
      @HaintblueRee 10 місяців тому +6

      I’m working on it 😉

    • @DDarkestKnight
      @DDarkestKnight 10 місяців тому

      You better go read a book because no rich white company is gonna fund that

    • @bakerofcookiesandloverofmovies
      @bakerofcookiesandloverofmovies 10 місяців тому +6

      You know they make a mention in the game Hogwarts Legacy about other wizarding schools; and there is one in Africa, maybe they could make a movie about that. If anything they should make movies and stories about the schools that have been previously mentioned like the schools in America, Africa, France, and Sweden.

    • @MasonicMafia
      @MasonicMafia 10 місяців тому +1

      There are already black people at Hogwarts

    • @DDarkestKnight
      @DDarkestKnight 10 місяців тому +2

      @@MasonicMafia There were 4, they turned one of them into a white girl and the most impactful ever is done one of them dated a white girl that was going to marry the main character.

  • @Gemini_Samura1
    @Gemini_Samura1 10 місяців тому +27

    The first time I saw the trailer months ago, I knew something was off. Its surface level writing just screams at you in the trailer.

  • @intoxicatedmasculinity
    @intoxicatedmasculinity 10 місяців тому +16

    every time there's a character with really unclear motivations I always picture the pitch meetings guy saying "Because the movie has to happen."

    • @corey22beardable
      @corey22beardable 10 місяців тому +1

      "Super easy, barely an inconvenience"

  • @omenriver2399
    @omenriver2399 10 місяців тому +46

    So Justin Smith is the blackish Micheal Cera?

    • @tmmartinesq.6216
      @tmmartinesq.6216 10 місяців тому +7

      Eyes Glaze Over

    • @Swaggernaut_X
      @Swaggernaut_X 10 місяців тому +4

      Kinda?

    • @enterthebruce91
      @enterthebruce91 10 місяців тому +7

      ​@@Swaggernaut_XYep Justice Smith is the half Black Michael Cera, but less funny...

  • @bombast718
    @bombast718 10 місяців тому +206

    Who in the hell was this movie for ???

    • @mikehall4730
      @mikehall4730 10 місяців тому

      Young magical negros.

    • @Saavamusic
      @Saavamusic 10 місяців тому +20

      Black people 😂🤦🏿‍♂️ i don't know 😂😂😂😂

    • @jaygo8917
      @jaygo8917 10 місяців тому

      Annoying interracial couples

    • @bearerofbadnews1375
      @bearerofbadnews1375 10 місяців тому +71

      It’s for grifters to make quick content.

    • @johnwerner69
      @johnwerner69 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@bearerofbadnews1375so critical drinker

  • @shakirfoster9292
    @shakirfoster9292 10 місяців тому +126

    After seeing the "light- skinned" director and how much he looked like the main character, explained why the story sucked. They weren’t gonna let a dark-skinned black man kiss a white girl on screen.

    • @ballerinafromtheblock
      @ballerinafromtheblock 10 місяців тому +34

      Don’t create this narrative. Lightskinned black people still have black experience. And not all of us are half white like the main character. I agree the movie sucked I don’t think it’s because the director was lightskinned.

    • @GoB1996
      @GoB1996 10 місяців тому

      @@ballerinafromtheblockexactly and even with me being half white (moms side) I’m from Lexington and have still been called a N and was told once my mom was a nigga lover 😂 we still very much suffer from the same experiences

    • @Getawayk
      @Getawayk 10 місяців тому +10

      Jordan Peele is light skin

    • @shakirfoster9292
      @shakirfoster9292 10 місяців тому +7

      @Getawayk my point exactly .
      Jordan Peele only made one good movie.

    • @A_YouTube_Commenter
      @A_YouTube_Commenter 10 місяців тому

      ​@@shakirfoster9292Us. The greatest one.

  • @06dking
    @06dking 10 місяців тому +19

    This film also intentionally chose the least imposing black man for the lead role.

  • @seanleon2766
    @seanleon2766 10 місяців тому +31

    Here I thought this film was inspired by the Key & Peele skit Magical Negro Fight.

  • @maskedman5657
    @maskedman5657 10 місяців тому +26

    12:35 Martin hits the nail on the head with this comment. Justice Smith literally has some of the worst performances in all his roles. And I actually loved his performance in THE GET DOWN

    • @Starl8x8549
      @Starl8x8549 10 місяців тому +7

      I don't know how people felt about Detective Pikachu or the video game Quarry but thought he was good in both of them and I agree he needs better work

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 10 місяців тому +8

      Dungeons & Dragons was dope

    • @deannawoolfolk4562
      @deannawoolfolk4562 10 місяців тому +2

      Omg I loved him in the Get Down too! But I think should take a break from blockbusters or movies like this. He still young and can find his footing.

    • @Swaggernaut_X
      @Swaggernaut_X 10 місяців тому +2

      I thought he was alright in D&D but his character was just downtrodden magic user with self esteem issues so I guess that was to the few strengths he has.

  • @Theohybrid
    @Theohybrid 10 місяців тому +4

    Frankly, I still think America has a hard time with Interracial Relations in media (like racism or discrimination or political injustice) so this is their next _softer_ step into dealing with issues involving White & Black issues.
    It’s weird considering the nature of America being a nation of immigrants. But it also shows how America isn’t ready for certain topics so it settles for others and risks being tone-deaf.
    The American audience isn’t ready to see its ugly side but are totally okay with showing it on Reddit or other sub-communities.

  • @Talmadge33
    @Talmadge33 10 місяців тому +13

    To be fair, the trailer told you everything you needed to know about this movie

  • @gerardmakinart
    @gerardmakinart 10 місяців тому +22

    35:40 😂 "it kick me in my ass in the theater" 😅 Now that was funny

  • @FairyPrincessNia
    @FairyPrincessNia 10 місяців тому +29

    I swear to God, like clockwork, every time I start to get insecure about my own writing, I come across something like this. Mind you, my protagonist is a dark-skinned black magician.

  • @jordanloux3883
    @jordanloux3883 10 місяців тому +34

    One of my favorite comics, Southern Bastards, had fun with this trope by having a blind black man serve as a mentor for the poor kid in town who only wanted to play on the high school football team to make a name for himself. The man's assistance eventually leads the kid to becoming the main villain of the series as her becomes coach and rules the town and its drug trade with an iron fist.

    • @doubleflores8350
      @doubleflores8350 10 місяців тому +4

      Bet the blind man laughed about that.

    • @PawnInTheHypeMachine
      @PawnInTheHypeMachine 10 місяців тому +1

      @@doubleflores8350nah he shot himself

    • @PawnInTheHypeMachine
      @PawnInTheHypeMachine 10 місяців тому +1

      Had buddy tryna knock a stump out the ground 😂. That comic was one of my favorite stories in idk how long

  • @Pewpewpew182
    @Pewpewpew182 10 місяців тому +20

    David Allan Grier is one of those actors who deserves more/better roles. He was always my favorite cast member of In Living Color. He killed it with Damon Wayans regarding the Men on Film segments. 😂

  • @rodrigoferreramenezes5274
    @rodrigoferreramenezes5274 10 місяців тому +25

    The Mystic Magical Forner is a archetype that exist in every culture. If the movie was a satire about the trope, like a secret society guiding the white people because they better than others, it would be a good comedy about racism.

    • @jennaywilliams1024
      @jennaywilliams1024 10 місяців тому +1

      😂 Americans are the mystic and magic to foreigners. Why else would they be here?

    • @jennaywilliams1024
      @jennaywilliams1024 10 місяців тому

      @@stronkturtle1406 a fleeing tether who thinks that by serving yt people and acting as inferior they will keep yt people from acting a fool.

  • @et_puis
    @et_puis 10 місяців тому +7

    This protagonist was the Director's self insert and yet he STILL managed to make a character without any dimension or flavor?
    That says a lot about Kobi.

  • @doubleflores8350
    @doubleflores8350 10 місяців тому +22

    This feels like a romantic comedy in the early 2000s. One that studios try to make to appeal to black audiences when the majority who would watch are white people. The issue, this came out in 2024, long after the early 2000s! Movies like shouldn’t be made, this should’ve been a parody film. A comedy. Not a romance flick.

    • @liabw05
      @liabw05 10 місяців тому +3

      I thought it was parody

    • @anthonygraham8122
      @anthonygraham8122 8 місяців тому

      I know I'm late to the game. But my wife (who's white) said this exact same thing when we watched this last night

  • @JoseRodriguez-un2kc
    @JoseRodriguez-un2kc 10 місяців тому +35

    Donald Glover would have been a perfect writer for this movie. He's probably the only one that can pull off this movie premise.

    • @oo4758
      @oo4758 10 місяців тому +14

      Boots Riley could've worked the hell out this premise also

    • @tayl0rd553
      @tayl0rd553 9 місяців тому +2

      Spike Lee could've done it.

    • @KP82457
      @KP82457 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@@tayl0rd553 I agree. He did a good job with "Bamboozled".

  • @AnointedFlow
    @AnointedFlow 10 місяців тому +9

    This is one of those Disney, Hulu, Prime productions that try so hard to relate to the "black" experience and fails.

  • @JoeChillton
    @JoeChillton 10 місяців тому +15

    Picking Justice Smith for this is admitting to defeat, he's not the right person, you needed a LaKieth Standsfield. Or just watch Sorry to Bother You

  • @datmeme8967
    @datmeme8967 10 місяців тому +4

    When I saw Greer in this I thought it had to have some sort of satyrical twist that would make this make sense. I was wrong.

  • @hope-cat4894
    @hope-cat4894 10 місяців тому +7

    29:56 They tried to do a Barbie speech in the film about why it's impossible to be black? Oh dear. 😳

  • @billy32burno
    @billy32burno 10 місяців тому +14

    This is the reason a lot of black directors will never get a change, hollywood will lampoon this movie to say that black directors should stay on tubi , this movie is FRUSTRATING

  • @sharolettehopkins7586
    @sharolettehopkins7586 10 місяців тому +7

    This is the WORST MOVIE I've ever SEEN. I'm a Black 72 year old female. My niece had to wake me up 3 times. It made Madem Web a Oscar Winner. And we all know they missed the dot on that one. I will take the money they threw away on that Gar Bage.

  • @rayname908
    @rayname908 10 місяців тому +7

    If the premise allows the question, "if this society has magical power why don't they help black people?". Nice cast waisted

  • @chuito0008
    @chuito0008 10 місяців тому +12

    They could have easily made her a Magic Pixie Girl and it would have at least been kind of clever with that lame ass stinger. Literally make the DOA romantic comedy into one between 2 overused tropes where they cancel each other out and only work in the end when they decide to each abandon their own personal tropes. But that would require the Main character to have any positve personality traits and the female love interest to be written as an actually fleshed out character.

    • @MsDragonbal776
      @MsDragonbal776 10 місяців тому +3

      THISS!! When Korey said she was a part of a secret organization, this was the first thing that came to mind. The role is literally the Magical negro gimmick in female form

  • @crunkadile
    @crunkadile 10 місяців тому +6

    I always said that this movie was such a wasted opportunity for something that could’ve been thought provoking, funny and maybe even enlightening but Hollywood can’t do anything right

  • @inthedeadhours
    @inthedeadhours 10 місяців тому +12

    The end shouldve been the American Society of Manic Pixie Dream Girls.

  • @dominicarroyo6269
    @dominicarroyo6269 10 місяців тому +8

    Funny when the trailer dropped,i told people it looked like a movie that was gonna have the romance aspect take the first seat while everything else thats more important take the back seat. Feel like that was done more out of fear and trying to make certain people comfortable instead

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 10 місяців тому +4

      Very good, that's exactly it: Out of fear. And fear will always be the killer.

  • @CraftyActressMama
    @CraftyActressMama 10 місяців тому +8

    "Stop stuttering, Stand up straight!" lol

  • @KiamKweli
    @KiamKweli 10 місяців тому +33

    When a bad side quest becomes the main story.🙄

  • @Katfish1216
    @Katfish1216 10 місяців тому +20

    Otc they could have made this film about black spiritual systems that were created through slavery, like hoodoo, santeira, voudoub, obeah, etc and how they should be protected but no they came with this

    • @SammyRobinson62232
      @SammyRobinson62232 10 місяців тому +8

      That’s sound like a cool idea. And if written well will be an awesome movie

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 10 місяців тому +4

      That actually sounds way more interesting than this film.

    • @Katfish1216
      @Katfish1216 10 місяців тому +2

      ​@@SammyRobinson62232 and the main villains are missionaries.

    • @Katfish1216
      @Katfish1216 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@AkiraRobinson-qg6zn it could be watered down as quiet as kept african spirituality played a huge role during the Haitian Revolution and Nat Turner was a conjure man

    • @Katfish1216
      @Katfish1216 10 місяців тому

      ​@@gg8264it would tbh.

  • @delycan4912
    @delycan4912 10 місяців тому +10

    Hear about this movie before trailer. Thought it would be good. Watched trailer and went "Oh HEEEELL NO."
    We were so close.

  • @RGF91
    @RGF91 10 місяців тому +56

    Hollywood will never learn

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 10 місяців тому +2

      Hollywood has valued profit over art since the Hayes Code, my dude. This is truly nothing new

    • @OllieFreeman-w6g
      @OllieFreeman-w6g 10 місяців тому +3

      ​@@zacharybosley1935this isn't going to make a profit.

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 10 місяців тому +2

      @user-nj7co3hi4y you're right, but that's the fault of the filmmakers pandering without spending any time to refine the story, not really the fault of the story itself. Even the marketing for this dumpster fire was designed to capitalize on a racial tension because that's just free advertising.

    • @MarioBario
      @MarioBario 10 місяців тому

      They're the ones that created the troupe. They're not going to learn from themselves

    • @ghosttemplar6989
      @ghosttemplar6989 10 місяців тому

      They haven't learn since most of us were in our mothers belly seriously.

  • @adu1991
    @adu1991 10 місяців тому +8

    Which movie was worse...
    This, or Madame Web?
    I think that this one actually accomplished the feat of being worse than Madame Web.

  • @jasonseacord
    @jasonseacord 10 місяців тому +8

    I really thought this was going to be a takedown of the trope. I can’t believe they upheld it. Amazing.

    • @JCPRuckus
      @JCPRuckus 10 місяців тому +1

      It was a takedown. The main character rejects The Society and gets the girl. Media literacy 101, that's the movie telling you he was right to reject The Society, meaning The Society was wrong.
      This dude went into a satire and took everything everyone said at face value.

    • @BabyGirlTiny
      @BabyGirlTiny 9 місяців тому

      @@JCPRuckushow is it a takedown when the takedown was based on wanting to get with a white women?

  • @IHStudiosHQ
    @IHStudiosHQ 10 місяців тому +8

    This is why we need black films that are just 100% about the fantasy or Sci-fi element with no BS commentary. The sad part is white film can just always be their own thing but we get to always have our film be Half-A** stuff that never actually enjoys their concept without derailing it.

    • @SammyRobinson62232
      @SammyRobinson62232 10 місяців тому

      Which is kinda weird since every piece of media has commentary in it.

    • @IHStudiosHQ
      @IHStudiosHQ 10 місяців тому

      very true but there is a different in how subtle or how overt you make it. especially in the case of parody film.
      like prime example yes its a parody film and yes it make commentary on black people struggle but does this film genuinely embrace its concept and make a fun lil universe unique to itself???
      lets use get out for example yes it was full of cool easter eggs and social commentary but even if you don't disect everysingle aspect of the deeper meta side you still have a simple fun body snatcher esque film which happens to have a black lead.
      you gave us a verse full of "magical black people" but you somehow landing on a discount romantic comedy and worse not even a good romantic comedy that adds to the world setting????
      @@SammyRobinson62232

    • @HaintblueRee
      @HaintblueRee 10 місяців тому

      I totally agree! When I write, I write for the fantasy element-no commentary. When one of my friends tried to close read it, I was like no my guy. It’s just a story CHILL

  • @citrusbutter7718
    @citrusbutter7718 10 місяців тому +5

    That whole movie made no sense, even to the people who don't like social politics in their movies. The movie implies that he's afraid of and don't trust white people, and yet he ends up crushing on one effortlessly without questioning himself.... If he finds her to be a good person then obviously he don't see them all as being bad people, so why the theatrics in the beginning about being uncomfortable around them? Also, if obviously this movie isn't completely in clown world when it comes to white people being complete comic villains where obviously they're average normal regular people instead, then why the fuck even have a society that controls anything having to do with them? It's all pointless directionless dribble.

  • @bptboy2
    @bptboy2 10 місяців тому +10

    All the creativity went into the title

  • @7woundsfist
    @7woundsfist 10 місяців тому +8

    So it's steppin' fetch it the movie? I knew this looked bad, but damn!

  • @preciousgirl2010
    @preciousgirl2010 10 місяців тому +22

    So excited about this review!! I was not expecting the shift to awkward romance. And then the "twist" at the end 😒 Soon as the credits rolled, someone booed lol

    • @dominicarroyo6269
      @dominicarroyo6269 10 місяців тому +7

      Honestly you could see it shift that way in the trailers tbh.

    • @preciousgirl2010
      @preciousgirl2010 10 місяців тому +2

      @@dominicarroyo6269 unfortunately I didn't watch the trailer lol I went in blind

  • @stephen2597
    @stephen2597 10 місяців тому +3

    As they described the ending, I thought it was leading to the girl meeting a guy while lost in NYC. like Aaron inadvertently helped her meet someone in a cliche “big city” set up and fulfilled his role by accident. But that would be too dark humor for a movie like this

  • @anniaplays4529
    @anniaplays4529 10 місяців тому +12

    SEE KEENAN AND PEELE'S MAGICAL NEGRO SKIT FROM THEIR SHOW! 😅😅😅😅😅😅

  • @derrickzorns6506
    @derrickzorns6506 10 місяців тому +13

    Imagine everyone from in living color writing or having input in this movie it would have been so funny

  • @afterdinnercreations936
    @afterdinnercreations936 10 місяців тому +13

    I feel like the writers wanted to go all-the-way with satirizing the magical-negro trope, but a bunch of studio-execs said "nope."
    In terms of the genre, I'd love for there to be something like a full-length movie of that "Inner City Magic School" sketch from Key & Peele.

    • @SouthJerseyGirl30
      @SouthJerseyGirl30 10 місяців тому +3

      Using swiffer mops as brooms to fly on lol

  • @wrldonwill
    @wrldonwill 10 місяців тому +6

    Got rid of Aunt Jemima's scarf and gave her a Jheri Curl.

  • @myytchanneldinakoha8498
    @myytchanneldinakoha8498 10 місяців тому +4

    Why does Hollywood keep trying to make this dude happen? He’s not a stat. No charm whatsoever.

  • @DetroitAlan01
    @DetroitAlan01 10 місяців тому +14

    Spike Lee coined the phrase. Well, Spike Lee should’ve done this movie.

    • @EdgeO419
      @EdgeO419 10 місяців тому +18

      Spike already did a better scathing critique of black stereotypes in films over 20 years ago, it was called "Bamboozled".

  • @voodoochile4147
    @voodoochile4147 10 місяців тому +42

    I didn’t miss the point. I missed the movie 😂I suspected this would be the outcome.

  • @fdub301
    @fdub301 10 місяців тому +16

    I feel like the trailer gave away how off the mark this was gonna be

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 10 місяців тому +4

      And people were Still crying about how racist it was then.

  • @RuttorBlacksand
    @RuttorBlacksand 10 місяців тому +4

    Can we pre-emptively petition to never have Justice Smith cast as Miles Morales, ever?

  • @InnerAtanih
    @InnerAtanih 9 місяців тому +1

    8:57 no a lot of PEOPLE got mad about this movie because the premise was racist and ignorant

  • @BigSmokeJitsu
    @BigSmokeJitsu 10 місяців тому +14

    SOSWAG sounds like the magical side chick society

  • @shayZero
    @shayZero 10 місяців тому +3

    If this had been a comedy, a true comedy it could have had something to say. Instead its a community theatre one note joke without any punchline.

  • @F.Hakeem89
    @F.Hakeem89 10 місяців тому +32

    This sounds something that Dave Chappelle or Keye and Peele would do.

    • @justinadams7824
      @justinadams7824 10 місяців тому +11

      they actually did lol.

    • @TeeJack_1
      @TeeJack_1 10 місяців тому +16

      Naw Key and Peele did it 100 times better

    • @39Bosski
      @39Bosski 10 місяців тому +5

      @@justinadams7824 and it was hilarious!

  • @Spankee99
    @Spankee99 10 місяців тому +2

    Maybe a title that ~80% of America isn’t allowed to say was a bad marketing move.

    • @anthonygraham8122
      @anthonygraham8122 8 місяців тому

      You and two other people just revealed how dumb and uneducated some wyte people are in America

    • @anthonygraham8122
      @anthonygraham8122 8 місяців тому

      Negro is fine. The other word isn't.

  • @tanjredshirt
    @tanjredshirt 10 місяців тому +11

    He meets a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, doesn't he?

    • @Gchildwarrior
      @Gchildwarrior 10 місяців тому +10

      The Black Man's Kryptonite 😂

    • @a.houston946
      @a.houston946 10 місяців тому +7

      Yes. Yes he does.

  • @SaiScribbles
    @SaiScribbles 10 місяців тому +2

    The worst part is this could have been a very good premise for a madcap satire.

  • @stevekasan1575
    @stevekasan1575 10 місяців тому +5

    its such a shame,; David Allen Grier, if this was 30 years ago he and Tommy Davidson would have made what this was meant to be either on In Living Colour or a film produced by Keenan.
    Colourism is a BIG thing, this seems like a movie made by Hallmark or Tyler Perry
    Also, nice Deltron shirt Korey

  • @noahknight4039
    @noahknight4039 9 місяців тому +1

    The movie actually touches on a lot of valid points.
    The moments where it points out that W people being uncomfortable can create a dangerous and hostile situation for a black person is true.
    Among many other things in the movie.
    And I think the idea can work because the black person helping a white person was a common trope.
    And many elements are still very valid today. Where walking down the street in a majority white neighborhood can put your life at risk. They get uncomfortable, call the cops and lie and before you know it, you’re in a dangerous situation.

  • @alexjackson8647
    @alexjackson8647 10 місяців тому +7

    David Alan Grier could've say no to do this movie.

  • @MJFERMEZLA
    @MJFERMEZLA 11 годин тому

    The greatest (only ?) quality of this movie is that he work as a Lightning rod, taking all the white rage in, so every racist grifters would concentrate on that disapointing movie, thinking his box office little number is a success, will way better movie about those social issue would go free and protected, like American Fiction or the book of clarence. Even I saw the TV glow, also with Justice Smith was spared by the grifters despite talking about subject they hate.

  • @xst0rshun626
    @xst0rshun626 10 місяців тому +3

    Been rocking with y’all since the spill days. I first heard that phrase “magical negro” from y’all back in the day. Keep doing y’all thing.

  • @troygoom2251
    @troygoom2251 10 місяців тому +8

    Just wanted to emphasize that it’s mainly the writers that most people are having these problems with. The directors are the face of the movies creation, but the writers are literally the ones writing out the things, characters, and plots you guys dislike.

    • @preach8112
      @preach8112 10 місяців тому +10

      From what I remember this was written, and directed by the same person

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 10 місяців тому

      That's very sad then because these writers clearly have no idea how real human beings interact with each other.

  • @pestyobsrvr4278
    @pestyobsrvr4278 10 місяців тому +6

    You know, the movie is bad when Korey forgot to censor himself

  • @JDotWill
    @JDotWill 10 місяців тому +3

    I feel like the ending was the filmmakers being too cute because if you rewatch the film with the knowledge of that reveal, it changes nothing.

  • @jaxsonsdad79
    @jaxsonsdad79 10 місяців тому +43

    All we wanted was Black Hogwarts…

  • @jordanwilliams1546
    @jordanwilliams1546 10 місяців тому +25

    If the Wayans family worked on this film I bet it would’ve been hilarious

    • @drgreenthumb4526
      @drgreenthumb4526 10 місяців тому +5

      There’s a first time for anything I suppose.

  • @indauroleal7953
    @indauroleal7953 10 місяців тому +3

    What I find funny is that some UA-camrs like Grace Randolph pretend
    this movie does not exist because she does not dare say the word *negroes" 😂

  • @damiendsoul360
    @damiendsoul360 10 місяців тому +5

    This sounds like a movie that needs to be ROASTED.

  • @AnointedFlow
    @AnointedFlow 10 місяців тому +7

    19:32 This movie for sure made Korey tired.😂

  • @SirAbyss
    @SirAbyss 10 місяців тому +2

    How the hell is a movie with a title like The American Society of Magical Negroes rated PG-13? Did they really think toning down the writing of the comedy was gonna make it any better, let alone give it a bigger audience?
    It's actually insane that this is coming out right after American Fiction, a movie that literally accomplishes what this film tries and fails to do in every way.

  • @rickyclover9393
    @rickyclover9393 10 місяців тому +10

    Black folks is slamming this movie all over UA-cam left and right. Yeah. Some Ol' Bullshit!!!

  • @wtroupe64wt
    @wtroupe64wt 10 місяців тому +3

    Now I want to see magical Society of Karen’s😂😂😂😂

  • @Nightwing-ce1tx
    @Nightwing-ce1tx 10 місяців тому +10

    I knew from the trailer exactly what this was going to be a lame love triangle romantic comedy

  • @kaylao.3326
    @kaylao.3326 10 місяців тому +5

    This was a stupid concept for a movie anyway. Dude basically turned his back in helping black people to run behind some whyt girl