Customer Ratings & Reviews

Spike Lee's fascinating film is an extraordinary lesson in a film presentation of the black history entertainment world as told by today's greatest Black American cinema director. At times a disturbing look at an entertainment that emphatically perpetuated the stereotype of black entertainers by putting them in blackface, but told in a brilliant piece of cinema that is a masterpiece of great film artistry at its best. This expose' is pure entertainment, yet demoralizing in its content about black entertainers. Spike Lee tells ai n in-your-face factual story of the era of minstrel shows that places at its core white America's racism and race prejudice, that, in its glory, creates the image of black people as a lower form of life, lending further bias to a personification at the time that black people were inferior human beings in all aspects to whites people. Thank you, Spike Lee and Criterion, for preserving a film masterpiece of the shameful past of racism in the American entertainment world. Let it never be forgotten that minstrel shows and minstrel show history is stained and racist and will always be painfully remembered in the annuls of humankind.

This film was released about five years too early, but it definitely predicted a lot of what passes for entertainment these days. As usual with Spike Lee's films, the ending is a bit muddled and chaotic. But the images and dialogue easily make up some of his best work before and since. Can't wait to dive into the new Criterion features.

Damon Wayons and Tommy Davidson deliver the laughs in this satire portrayal movie! But make no mistake, Michael Rappaport steals the movie with his deliberate stereotypical white guy humor! A must have for your comedy collection!

Spike lee is one of the greatest directors of the last two centuries and with this 2000 film managed to satirize and predict the hypocrisy of America again.

My estimate, probably Spike Lee's best productions. An education of America's past and present.

Bamboozled is an underrated film. The underlying messages remains on-point.

Never really heard of this till it was added to the criterion collection. Definitely a good social commentary watch.

An underated Spike Lee movie...very interesting considering the times.