I tilted my head, looking at him like the dog on the RCA label. “Don’t you know this is RACIST against Black people?!!!” And they’re ALWAYS WRONG too! “How could you laugh at this shit?” he asked me. Folks, you know the one, where the Negro-impaired person you know and love feels it is necessary to tell you what it means to be Black, and what racism is, as if your dumb country ass had never experienced it before and was in dire need of enlightenment. I was still wiping tears out of my eyes from laughing and he gave me one of those lectures. ![]() We walked into a Manhattan theater looking like one of those black and white Jungle Fever cookies, and when we walked out, my pal was livid. Siskel and Ebert took sides on this, as did my best friend and I after a screening of the film. Either they thought it was funny, or they thought it so offensive that it should have never been made. People seem to be divided into two camps on this picture. It also benefits greatly from Keenen using the funniest and most subtle Wayans brother in a prominent role. Sucka is the best of the lot (though I enjoyed the first Scary Movie almost as much) because it has a story to keep veering it back on track. Sucka began their tradition of throwing every possible joke, no matter how questionable, at the wall and seeing what sticks. If you look closely and quickly, you’ll also see Shawn and Marlon Wayans as well. Director Wayans makes it a family affair, casting his brother Damon as a bumbling henchman paired with Dwayne Wayne from A Different World, and his sister Kim as the worst club singer in history. Like Blaxploitation, it celebrates the determination and power of strong Black men and women in their pursuit to stick it to the Man, except this time one of the brothers is felled by bunion problems, and the most powerful sistah in the picture is the hero’s Mom, played by Ja’Net “Willona on Good Times” DuBois.įor those counting the signs of the Apocalypse brought on by the Wayans family, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka is your First Sign. Like Shaft’s theme, it prevents the singer from saying a word we’ll be hearing a lot of for the next 89 minutes. Sucka makes its parodic intentions known from the opening credits song, sung by The Gap Band and written by 70’s music icon Norman Whitfield. ![]() So begins the Blaxploitation-mocking I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayans’ directorial debut from 1988. ![]() How did he go to the bathroom with all that stuff on?
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