Mr Jiggyfly
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- Jan 29, 2004
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I was totally ready to roll my eyes as well considering how often critics tend to overrate films with the “correct” themes, but I was absolutely blown away by how great it was.
Maybe that’s in part because my expectations were tempered as I was genuinely expecting some tired SJW pandering but I felt none of that; and I was probably wrong to expect it because the terrible SJW stuff always comes from the white left, not funny/talented black creators.
As far as plot holes go, I enjoyed the movie more as a comedy than anything else, so I don’t tend to pay much attention to ‘plot holes’ in a comedy.
The woman who played Regina did such a good job. I was dying laughing at the scene when the main guy confronts her about the cell phone in the bedroom.
Chris's buddy Rod legit had me laughing, as most of his scenes were funny as hell. But the movie was deemed to be a thriller, and not a comedy. I.e. the parts that weren't suppose to be funny, really were because it was so out there and unrealistic...
I get the message behind the movie and the stereotypical form of racism they Peele was trying to hit on, but it was just cheesy as hell IMHO.
It felt like Peele was telling us he had a great message, so he could take his audience for granted. He set Chris up to be such an intelligent guy, then at the end he became a cliched dumb ass movie victim.
When Chris conveniently finds a box Rose stupidly left lying around of all her previous victims, and he still buys her act all the way down the steps and puts himself into obvious danger... like cmon.
He was way too smart not to see something nefarious was going on by that point.
I just think the critics and audience gave this movie way too much props based on its message, and ignored the very flawed delivery.