I thought it was pretty funny too.
It had a few moments that surprised me, and overall was a lot funnier than I was expecting going in to see it.
I mean, the whole thing kept saying how superior black people are and playing on tons of stereotypes of white people.
I didn't see that... It was trying to parody the most common racial stereotype, that one group
(when they are all by themselves) tends to see themselves as better off than some other group.
That movie was trying to play on stereotype of every kind, it was just focused more on the relationship
between black and white culture because it was based on the style of the old "blacksploitation" films
of the 60's and 70's.
It seems like instead of promoting people as being one race of people instead of white or black,
it just reopened old issues that many people have since overcome.
Some people say the same thing about Mel Brooks films, but a big part of "overcoming"
those issues is being able to look back and laugh at how absurd some of those race-specific ideas are.
The sad part is that there are some people in the real world that really do have such a narrow viewpoint that
they would see some of the ---- that movie made up, and take it seriously. The reason UB is accepted as
not being a racist movie was that it was not trying to be about black vs white, it was trying to be about
diversity vs close-minded, conservative, corporate control.
badluck, if you walked out 30 minutes into it, then you really aren't qualified to talk about how "old"
the stereotypes were. Since you probably missed some of the better parodies of stereotype that
were used later in the movie. Some of the funniest moments I took away from that film was in seeing
how accurate some of those characters came to mannerisms and speech of people (white and black)
that I've dealt with on a daily basis for many years.
And by far, the funniest line in the whole film had little to nothing to do with race at all...
"Oh man, this isn't Taco Bell!"
