THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES MOVIE REVIEW | Double Toasted

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  • Опубликовано: 3 янв 2025

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  • @forthenight3265
    @forthenight3265 9 месяцев назад +835

    It should have stayed a key and Peele sketch lmaooo

    • @lilmissknowitall5775
      @lilmissknowitall5775 9 месяцев назад +70

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

    • @seangalvin4582
      @seangalvin4582 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +10

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

    • @Labcabin96
      @Labcabin96 9 месяцев назад +4

      there can only be one....

  • @natedoggcata
    @natedoggcata 9 месяцев назад +499

    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 9 месяцев назад +76

      No. A pat of margarine. Thumbtacks are sharp.

    • @IMZ44
      @IMZ44 9 месяцев назад +46

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

    • @andrewcutler1380
      @andrewcutler1380 9 месяцев назад +77

      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 9 месяцев назад +55

      He plays himself in every movie

    • @ddbob1
      @ddbob1 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @joshjacks2837
    @joshjacks2837 9 месяцев назад +181

    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 8 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @octbaby88
    @octbaby88 9 месяцев назад +397

    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 9 месяцев назад +17

      Amen, this and Kung Fu Panda 4

    • @octbaby88
      @octbaby88 9 месяцев назад +12

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

    • @Birdyboys
      @Birdyboys 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +6

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

    • @Thisisjustname
      @Thisisjustname 9 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @chination1796
    @chination1796 9 месяцев назад +329

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

    • @superrazor7617
      @superrazor7617 9 месяцев назад +41

      way better movie

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 9 месяцев назад +44

      That sounds like a more entertaining movie.

    • @Anthonydavis65
      @Anthonydavis65 9 месяцев назад

      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 9 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @evitagiron
      @evitagiron 9 месяцев назад +2

      That’s what I thought lol

  • @AllanDanja
    @AllanDanja 9 месяцев назад +205

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

    • @themightyjim3614
      @themightyjim3614 9 месяцев назад +18

      I forgot that film existed

    • @samuelwetz8378
      @samuelwetz8378 9 месяцев назад +19

      A better movie!

    • @El_oh7199
      @El_oh7199 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +6

      It saved it from becoming a box office flop

    • @zod4365
      @zod4365 9 месяцев назад +5

      ​@DDarkestKnight how?!?

  • @Anthonycheesman2024
    @Anthonycheesman2024 9 месяцев назад +113

    I think everyone was hoping for black hogwarts lol.

    • @Spawnwick_Boseman82820
      @Spawnwick_Boseman82820 9 месяцев назад +5

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

  • @Agrellar
    @Agrellar 9 месяцев назад +181

    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 9 месяцев назад +30

      This should have been the movie!!!

    • @LeveySaintil
      @LeveySaintil 9 месяцев назад +15

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

    • @studiomansion7942
      @studiomansion7942 9 месяцев назад +4

      They're saving that for the sequel.

    • @OmniMale
      @OmniMale 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @OmniMale
      @OmniMale 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @dwayneadamsworld
    @dwayneadamsworld 9 месяцев назад +127

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

    • @krisj827
      @krisj827 9 месяцев назад +33

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

    • @MrMakingcake
      @MrMakingcake 9 месяцев назад +2

      Lol

    • @RGF91
      @RGF91 9 месяцев назад +14

      i feel sorry for him

    • @rockb922
      @rockb922 9 месяцев назад +18

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

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 9 месяцев назад +19

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

  • @michaelstrong5383
    @michaelstrong5383 9 месяцев назад +156

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

    • @realtalk8665
      @realtalk8665 8 месяцев назад +4

      Seen both films and It would be that type of film

  • @albatross4920
    @albatross4920 9 месяцев назад +59

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

  • @Montesama314
    @Montesama314 8 месяцев назад +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.

  • @Social_Pugatory
    @Social_Pugatory 9 месяцев назад +76

    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 9 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @zionsutherland6312
      @zionsutherland6312 9 месяцев назад +4

      Underrated take

  • @Moviebinger1124
    @Moviebinger1124 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +127

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

  • @mattfleurant9295
    @mattfleurant9295 9 месяцев назад +71

    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 9 месяцев назад +23

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

    • @mutantmagnet
      @mutantmagnet 9 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @GoB1996
      @GoB1996 9 месяцев назад +9

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

    • @JCPRuckus
      @JCPRuckus 9 месяцев назад +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 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @antwanjenkins6735
    @antwanjenkins6735 9 месяцев назад +293

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

    • @lukaszzylik4437
      @lukaszzylik4437 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +2

      💯💯💯💯💯 I swear if only....🤦🏾‍♀️

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 9 месяцев назад

      How so?

    • @tefnut93
      @tefnut93 9 месяцев назад

      just lazy

  • @james.b.mcgill
    @james.b.mcgill 9 месяцев назад +37

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

    • @damiendsoul360
      @damiendsoul360 9 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @LadyDuchess
      @LadyDuchess 9 месяцев назад +2

      🤣😂🤣

  • @SuperPal-tr3go
    @SuperPal-tr3go 9 месяцев назад +184

    Where's my Black Hogwarts goddamnit?

    • @HaintblueRee
      @HaintblueRee 9 месяцев назад +6

      I’m working on it 😉

    • @DDarkestKnight
      @DDarkestKnight 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @bakerofcookiesandloverofmovies
      @bakerofcookiesandloverofmovies 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +1

      There are already black people at Hogwarts

    • @DDarkestKnight
      @DDarkestKnight 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @andrewadachi9306
    @andrewadachi9306 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +31

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

    • @blackpanthro
      @blackpanthro 9 месяцев назад +10

      Wayans

    • @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881
      @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @hope-cat4894
      @hope-cat4894 9 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @TreyMcDonaldAnimator
    @TreyMcDonaldAnimator 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @oo4758
      @oo4758 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @zenfirebird5360
      @zenfirebird5360 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @totallytubular8760
    @totallytubular8760 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад

      Exactly the problem with American Fiction

    • @leonkuwata4510
      @leonkuwata4510 9 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @theconsciousobserver6829
      @theconsciousobserver6829 9 месяцев назад

      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 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@marcusdavis5599American fiction was actually good lol.

  • @Kickinthescience
    @Kickinthescience 9 месяцев назад +67

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

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +1

      What about Undercover Brother?

    • @Justmyhandle
      @Justmyhandle 8 месяцев назад +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.

  • @gcolbyp
    @gcolbyp 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +12

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

    • @MattyCamachio
      @MattyCamachio 9 месяцев назад

      What were the other two fuck you’s?

    • @gcolbyp
      @gcolbyp 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @danavixen6274
      @danavixen6274 9 месяцев назад +3

      Thank God for Dune 2 and The Beekeeper! ❤

  • @bombast718
    @bombast718 9 месяцев назад +204

    Who in the hell was this movie for ???

    • @mikehall4730
      @mikehall4730 9 месяцев назад

      Young magical negros.

    • @Saavamusic
      @Saavamusic 9 месяцев назад +20

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

    • @jaygo8917
      @jaygo8917 9 месяцев назад

      Annoying interracial couples

    • @bearerofbadnews1375
      @bearerofbadnews1375 9 месяцев назад +70

      It’s for grifters to make quick content.

    • @johnwerner69
      @johnwerner69 9 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@bearerofbadnews1375so critical drinker

  • @omenriver2399
    @omenriver2399 9 месяцев назад +46

    So Justin Smith is the blackish Micheal Cera?

    • @tmmartinesq.6216
      @tmmartinesq.6216 9 месяцев назад +7

      Eyes Glaze Over

    • @Swaggernaut_X
      @Swaggernaut_X 9 месяцев назад +4

      Kinda?

    • @enterthebruce91
      @enterthebruce91 9 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @intoxicatedmasculinity
    @intoxicatedmasculinity 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +1

      "Super easy, barely an inconvenience"

  • @06dking
    @06dking 9 месяцев назад +19

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

  • @JoseRodriguez-un2kc
    @JoseRodriguez-un2kc 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +14

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

    • @tayl0rd553
      @tayl0rd553 8 месяцев назад +2

      Spike Lee could've done it.

    • @KP82457
      @KP82457 7 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @Gemini_Samura1
    @Gemini_Samura1 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @maskedman5657
    @maskedman5657 9 месяцев назад +25

    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 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +8

      Dungeons & Dragons was dope

    • @deannawoolfolk4562
      @deannawoolfolk4562 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @Talmadge33
    @Talmadge33 9 месяцев назад +13

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

  • @_surreal99
    @_surreal99 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @jordanloux3883
    @jordanloux3883 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +4

      Bet the blind man laughed about that.

    • @PawnInTheHypeMachine
      @PawnInTheHypeMachine 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@doubleflores8350nah he shot himself

    • @PawnInTheHypeMachine
      @PawnInTheHypeMachine 9 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @Theohybrid
    @Theohybrid 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @AnointedFlow
    @AnointedFlow 9 месяцев назад +9

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

  • @KiamKweli
    @KiamKweli 9 месяцев назад +34

    When a bad side quest becomes the main story.🙄

  • @seanleon2766
    @seanleon2766 9 месяцев назад +31

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

  • @FairyPrincessNia
    @FairyPrincessNia 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @CraftyActressMama
    @CraftyActressMama 9 месяцев назад +8

    "Stop stuttering, Stand up straight!" lol

  • @gerardmakinart
    @gerardmakinart 9 месяцев назад +21

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

  • @rodrigoferreramenezes5274
    @rodrigoferreramenezes5274 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +1

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

    • @jennaywilliams1024
      @jennaywilliams1024 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @doubleflores8350
    @doubleflores8350 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +3

      I thought it was parody

    • @anthonygraham8122
      @anthonygraham8122 7 месяцев назад

      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

  • @JoeChillton
    @JoeChillton 9 месяцев назад +13

    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

  • @Pewpewpew182
    @Pewpewpew182 9 месяцев назад +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. 😂

  • @shakirfoster9292
    @shakirfoster9292 9 месяцев назад +125

    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 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад

      @@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 9 месяцев назад +10

      Jordan Peele is light skin

    • @shakirfoster9292
      @shakirfoster9292 9 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @A_YouTube_Commenter
      @A_YouTube_Commenter 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@shakirfoster9292Us. The greatest one.

  • @hope-cat4894
    @hope-cat4894 9 месяцев назад +6

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

  • @Lavolpeengreece
    @Lavolpeengreece 9 месяцев назад +15

    Dr.Umar gonna have a field day with this one

    • @darthekul1
      @darthekul1 9 месяцев назад

      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 ??

  • @chuito0008
    @chuito0008 9 месяцев назад +11

    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 9 месяцев назад +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

  • @rayname908
    @rayname908 9 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @inthedeadhours
    @inthedeadhours 9 месяцев назад +12

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

  • @crunkadile
    @crunkadile 9 месяцев назад +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

  • @Katfish1216
    @Katfish1216 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @michaelstrong5383
      @michaelstrong5383 9 месяцев назад +4

      That actually sounds way more interesting than this film.

    • @Katfish1216
      @Katfish1216 9 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@SammyRobinson62232 and the main villains are missionaries.

    • @Katfish1216
      @Katfish1216 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@gg8264it would tbh.

  • @sharolettehopkins7586
    @sharolettehopkins7586 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @adu1991
    @adu1991 9 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @citrusbutter7718
    @citrusbutter7718 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @IHStudiosHQ
    @IHStudiosHQ 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @IHStudiosHQ
      @IHStudiosHQ 9 месяцев назад

      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 9 месяцев назад

      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

  • @dominicarroyo6269
    @dominicarroyo6269 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @delycan4912
    @delycan4912 9 месяцев назад +10

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

  • @billy32burno
    @billy32burno 9 месяцев назад +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

  • @bptboy2
    @bptboy2 9 месяцев назад +10

    All the creativity went into the title

  • @datmeme8967
    @datmeme8967 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @DetroitAlan01
    @DetroitAlan01 9 месяцев назад +13

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

    • @EdgeO419
      @EdgeO419 9 месяцев назад +18

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

  • @fdub301
    @fdub301 9 месяцев назад +16

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

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 9 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @jasonseacord
    @jasonseacord 9 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @JCPRuckus
      @JCPRuckus 9 месяцев назад +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 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @derrickzorns6506
    @derrickzorns6506 9 месяцев назад +13

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

  • @xst0rshun626
    @xst0rshun626 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @RGF91
    @RGF91 9 месяцев назад +56

    Hollywood will never learn

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 9 месяцев назад +2

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

    • @OllieFreeman-w6g
      @OllieFreeman-w6g 9 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @zacharybosley1935
      @zacharybosley1935 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @ghosttemplar6989
      @ghosttemplar6989 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @voodoochile4147
    @voodoochile4147 9 месяцев назад +42

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

    • @krisj827
      @krisj827 9 месяцев назад +5

      Same

  • @noahknight4039
    @noahknight4039 7 месяцев назад +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.

  • @preciousgirl2010
    @preciousgirl2010 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +7

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

    • @preciousgirl2010
      @preciousgirl2010 9 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @F.Hakeem89
    @F.Hakeem89 9 месяцев назад +32

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

    • @justinadams7824
      @justinadams7824 9 месяцев назад +11

      they actually did lol.

    • @TeeJack_1
      @TeeJack_1 9 месяцев назад +16

      Naw Key and Peele did it 100 times better

    • @39Bosski
      @39Bosski 9 месяцев назад +5

      @@justinadams7824 and it was hilarious!

  • @stephen2597
    @stephen2597 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +12

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

  • @afterdinnercreations936
    @afterdinnercreations936 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +3

      Using swiffer mops as brooms to fly on lol

  • @7woundsfist
    @7woundsfist 9 месяцев назад +8

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

  • @shayZero
    @shayZero 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @tanjredshirt
    @tanjredshirt 9 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @Gchildwarrior
      @Gchildwarrior 9 месяцев назад +10

      The Black Man's Kryptonite 😂

    • @a.houston946
      @a.houston946 9 месяцев назад +7

      Yes. Yes he does.

  • @wrldonwill
    @wrldonwill 9 месяцев назад +6

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

  • @RuttorBlacksand
    @RuttorBlacksand 9 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @myytchanneldinakoha8498
    @myytchanneldinakoha8498 9 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @SaiScribbles
    @SaiScribbles 9 месяцев назад +2

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

  • @wtroupe64wt
    @wtroupe64wt 9 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @BigSmokeJitsu
    @BigSmokeJitsu 9 месяцев назад +14

    SOSWAG sounds like the magical side chick society

  • @jordanwilliams1546
    @jordanwilliams1546 9 месяцев назад +25

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

    • @drgreenthumb4526
      @drgreenthumb4526 9 месяцев назад +5

      There’s a first time for anything I suppose.

  • @AnointedFlow
    @AnointedFlow 9 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @alexjackson8647
    @alexjackson8647 9 месяцев назад +7

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

  • @InnerAtanih
    @InnerAtanih 8 месяцев назад +1

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

  • @stevekasan1575
    @stevekasan1575 9 месяцев назад +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

  • @manuginobilisbaldspot2
    @manuginobilisbaldspot2 9 месяцев назад +43

    All we wanted was Black Hogwarts…

  • @Nightwing-ce1tx
    @Nightwing-ce1tx 9 месяцев назад +10

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

  • @damiendsoul360
    @damiendsoul360 9 месяцев назад +5

    This sounds like a movie that needs to be ROASTED.

  • @jennaywilliams1024
    @jennaywilliams1024 9 месяцев назад +7

    I'll stick to black snake moan 😂

    • @ghosttemplar6989
      @ghosttemplar6989 9 месяцев назад +3

      Bruh lmao

    • @jennaywilliams1024
      @jennaywilliams1024 8 месяцев назад

      @@ghosttemplar6989 that's the only magical hebro I want to see 😂😂😂

  • @SirAbyss
    @SirAbyss 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @age6021
    @age6021 9 месяцев назад +4

    The toasted crew winning once again. Love y'all!

  • @pestyobsrvr4278
    @pestyobsrvr4278 9 месяцев назад +6

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

  • @troygoom2251
    @troygoom2251 9 месяцев назад +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 9 месяцев назад +10

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

    • @LuznoLindo
      @LuznoLindo 9 месяцев назад

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

  • @indauroleal7953
    @indauroleal7953 9 месяцев назад +3

    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" 😂

  • @JDotWill
    @JDotWill 9 месяцев назад +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.

  • @1984Brandon
    @1984Brandon 9 месяцев назад +15

    So this is like Jussie Smollett if he was strait.

    • @darthekul1
      @darthekul1 9 месяцев назад

      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

    • @enterthebruce91
      @enterthebruce91 9 месяцев назад +3

      Justice Smith is gay in real life as well, I think.