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.
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'.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😂
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.
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.
@@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
U mean the guy who screams about how much he hates interracial relationships like miles and Gwen like its 1957 (and gets caught dating white women) and and goes on supremacist rants against anyone who isn't black like a black equivalent of a nazi ??
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.
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
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
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
@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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
@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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Buzzwords to bitch about black and gay people with , suprised you didn't also bring up Colin kaepernick for no reason lol but u had to bitch about gay people too lol
It should have stayed a key and Peele sketch lmaooo
that was a great sketch, more clever in 2 mins than the whole film
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.
@@seangalvin4582 full disclosure, the movie isn't based off the sketch, but they have similar concepts that were done better in the sketch
The love story should’ve been cut out entirely
I didn’t like that part of the trailer
there can only be one....
Who the fuck thought casting Justice Smith for a romantic comedy was a good idea? Dude has the charisma of a box of thumbtacks
No. A pat of margarine. Thumbtacks are sharp.
Damn, homie, that's cold-blooded and hilarious.
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.
He plays himself in every movie
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.
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'.
Great film you got played if didn't watched because of a trailer
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
Amen, this and Kung Fu Panda 4
@@TabathaTMartin Wait...what happened with Kung Fu Panda 4? I didn't see it.
@@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.
Same for me also. LOL. Watching the trailer I knew this movie was gonna be-TRASH.
I know I'm wasting my time after seeing the trailer.
I thought it was gonna be like a Black version of Hogwarts from Harry Potter 😂
way better movie
That sounds like a more entertaining movie.
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
It’s a comic called “Excellence” although the story it tells is less than excellent.
That’s what I thought lol
Still a shame They Cloned Tyrone didn't get a theatrical release but this does
I forgot that film existed
A better movie!
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
It saved it from becoming a box office flop
@DDarkestKnight how?!?
I think everyone was hoping for black hogwarts lol.
I did, but I should've known that wasn't the case especially with a name like that
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.
This should have been the movie!!!
That one, that’s the real movie right there. We’re in the timeline with the bad version:(…
They're saving that for the sequel.
What cracks me up is Justice is half white. Just shitting on his own.
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.
David Alan Grier on the Breakfast Club acting like the movie is super deep
I just saw his interview too. I know he's promoting the movie but it won't help.
Lol
i feel sorry for him
And Charlamagne is going along with it, instead of flaming it like it deserves.
I love D.A.G., but no no no. 🤦🏾♀️
This movie feels like the type of story the book awards people from *American Fiction* would come up with.
Seen both films and It would be that type of film
Kory roasting Justice Smith's character is the highlight of this review 😂😅
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.
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.
I love all the better movie ideas people thought this film was gonna be. 😆
Underrated take
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
Martin just can't stop laughing through the first five minutes 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funnier than the actual movie
Imagine if he had watched this movie!
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.
Justice Smith is a vacuum of charm. Even in Detective Pikachu, he was the awkward kid.
We can get scared for kittens depending on the situation.
Mr. Tennis Ball can't elicit a fear response.
@@michaelstrong5383then they really tried to make him a badass elf in D&D😂 get the bag I guess
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.
@@JCPRuckusit would have made more sense if his light skinnededness played a part in white people being comfortable around him. But it didn’t
This movie is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with most modern day filmmaking.
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.
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.
💯💯💯💯💯 I swear if only....🤦🏾♀️
How so?
just lazy
Justice Smith reminds me of the In Living Color skit "Richard Pryor is Scared for no Reason"
You took the words right out of my mouth! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
🤣😂🤣
Where's my Black Hogwarts goddamnit?
I’m working on it 😉
You better go read a book because no rich white company is gonna fund that
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.
There are already black people at Hogwarts
@@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.
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
At least it could've been kinda fun if they just went full comedy instead of going for a message
Wayans
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
Does Nick Fury have a movie, or is he just a supporting character in every appearance he's ever made?
@zacharybosley1935 Yes, he has his own character, and Secret Invasion is focused on him (it's not a good show, though).
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
How is this original? It's a key & Peele sketch.
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
Cmon. Lets forget this ish. Let's go see Ghostbusters. Want popcorn? 🍿
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.
I approve of Ghostbusters. 👍🏾I refuse to watch this other mess.🔥
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.
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.
Exactly the problem with American Fiction
@@EdgeO419 To be fair, casting Justice Smith was the perfect call if that's what they were going for lol
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
@@marcusdavis5599American fiction was actually good lol.
Blazing Saddles and The Chappelle Show did what they were trying to do and did it better.
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.
What about Undercover Brother?
@@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.
Damn already in the first 3 months of the year, we got 3 F*** Us. 2024 is off to a *great* start for movies...
At least we know which three movies will be on the "Worst" list at the end of the year.
What were the other two fuck you’s?
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.
@@gcolbyp thank you, I’ll watch the reviews
Thank God for Dune 2 and The Beekeeper! ❤
Who in the hell was this movie for ???
Young magical negros.
Black people 😂🤦🏿♂️ i don't know 😂😂😂😂
Annoying interracial couples
It’s for grifters to make quick content.
@@bearerofbadnews1375so critical drinker
So Justin Smith is the blackish Micheal Cera?
Eyes Glaze Over
Kinda?
@@Swaggernaut_XYep Justice Smith is the half Black Michael Cera, but less funny...
every time there's a character with really unclear motivations I always picture the pitch meetings guy saying "Because the movie has to happen."
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience"
This film also intentionally chose the least imposing black man for the lead role.
Donald Glover would have been a perfect writer for this movie. He's probably the only one that can pull off this movie premise.
Boots Riley could've worked the hell out this premise also
Spike Lee could've done it.
@@tayl0rd553 I agree. He did a good job with "Bamboozled".
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.
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
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
Dungeons & Dragons was dope
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.
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.
To be fair, the trailer told you everything you needed to know about this movie
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.
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.
Bet the blind man laughed about that.
@@doubleflores8350nah he shot himself
Had buddy tryna knock a stump out the ground 😂. That comic was one of my favorite stories in idk how long
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.
This is one of those Disney, Hulu, Prime productions that try so hard to relate to the "black" experience and fails.
When a bad side quest becomes the main story.🙄
Here I thought this film was inspired by the Key & Peele skit Magical Negro Fight.
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.
Don't let it
That actually sounds kind of cool ngl
"Stop stuttering, Stand up straight!" lol
35:40 😂 "it kick me in my ass in the theater" 😅 Now that was funny
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.
😂 Americans are the mystic and magic to foreigners. Why else would they be here?
@@stronkturtle1406 a fleeing tether who thinks that by serving yt people and acting as inferior they will keep yt people from acting a fool.
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.
I thought it was parody
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
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
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. 😂
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.
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.
@@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
Jordan Peele is light skin
@Getawayk my point exactly .
Jordan Peele only made one good movie.
@@shakirfoster9292Us. The greatest one.
29:56 They tried to do a Barbie speech in the film about why it's impossible to be black? Oh dear. 😳
Dr.Umar gonna have a field day with this one
U mean the guy who screams about how much he hates interracial relationships like miles and Gwen like its 1957 (and gets caught dating white women) and and goes on supremacist rants against anyone who isn't black like a black equivalent of a nazi ??
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.
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
If the premise allows the question, "if this society has magical power why don't they help black people?". Nice cast waisted
The end shouldve been the American Society of Manic Pixie Dream Girls.
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
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
That’s sound like a cool idea. And if written well will be an awesome movie
That actually sounds way more interesting than this film.
@@SammyRobinson62232 and the main villains are missionaries.
@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
@@gg8264it would tbh.
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.
Which movie was worse...
This, or Madame Web?
I think that this one actually accomplished the feat of being worse than Madame Web.
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.
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.
Which is kinda weird since every piece of media has commentary in it.
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
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
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
Very good, that's exactly it: Out of fear. And fear will always be the killer.
Hear about this movie before trailer. Thought it would be good. Watched trailer and went "Oh HEEEELL NO."
We were so close.
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
All the creativity went into the title
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.
Spike Lee coined the phrase. Well, Spike Lee should’ve done this movie.
Spike already did a better scathing critique of black stereotypes in films over 20 years ago, it was called "Bamboozled".
I feel like the trailer gave away how off the mark this was gonna be
And people were Still crying about how racist it was then.
I really thought this was going to be a takedown of the trope. I can’t believe they upheld it. Amazing.
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.
@@JCPRuckushow is it a takedown when the takedown was based on wanting to get with a white women?
Imagine everyone from in living color writing or having input in this movie it would have been so funny
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.
Hollywood will never learn
Hollywood has valued profit over art since the Hayes Code, my dude. This is truly nothing new
@@zacharybosley1935this isn't going to make a profit.
@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.
They're the ones that created the troupe. They're not going to learn from themselves
They haven't learn since most of us were in our mothers belly seriously.
I didn’t miss the point. I missed the movie 😂I suspected this would be the outcome.
Same
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.
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
Honestly you could see it shift that way in the trailers tbh.
@@dominicarroyo6269 unfortunately I didn't watch the trailer lol I went in blind
This sounds something that Dave Chappelle or Keye and Peele would do.
they actually did lol.
Naw Key and Peele did it 100 times better
@@justinadams7824 and it was hilarious!
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
SEE KEENAN AND PEELE'S MAGICAL NEGRO SKIT FROM THEIR SHOW! 😅😅😅😅😅😅
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.
Using swiffer mops as brooms to fly on lol
So it's steppin' fetch it the movie? I knew this looked bad, but damn!
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.
He meets a Manic Pixie Dream Girl, doesn't he?
The Black Man's Kryptonite 😂
Yes. Yes he does.
Got rid of Aunt Jemima's scarf and gave her a Jheri Curl.
Can we pre-emptively petition to never have Justice Smith cast as Miles Morales, ever?
Why does Hollywood keep trying to make this dude happen? He’s not a stat. No charm whatsoever.
The worst part is this could have been a very good premise for a madcap satire.
Now I want to see magical Society of Karen’s😂😂😂😂
SOSWAG sounds like the magical side chick society
If the Wayans family worked on this film I bet it would’ve been hilarious
There’s a first time for anything I suppose.
19:32 This movie for sure made Korey tired.😂
David Alan Grier could've say no to do this movie.
8:57 no a lot of PEOPLE got mad about this movie because the premise was racist and ignorant
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
All we wanted was Black Hogwarts…
Binjo
Never have an original thought.
There were black people at hogwarts lol
Hand down characters?
Why?
I knew from the trailer exactly what this was going to be a lame love triangle romantic comedy
This sounds like a movie that needs to be ROASTED.
I'll stick to black snake moan 😂
Bruh lmao
@@ghosttemplar6989 that's the only magical hebro I want to see 😂😂😂
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.
The toasted crew winning once again. Love y'all!
You know, the movie is bad when Korey forgot to censor himself
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.
From what I remember this was written, and directed by the same person
That's very sad then because these writers clearly have no idea how real human beings interact with each other.
What I find funny is that some RUclipsrs like Grace Randolph pretend
this movie does not exist because she does not dare say the word *negroes" 😂
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.
So this is like Jussie Smollett if he was strait.
Buzzwords to bitch about black and gay people with , suprised you didn't also bring up Colin kaepernick for no reason lol but u had to bitch about gay people too lol
Justice Smith is gay in real life as well, I think.