Blackhacker

Just saw the premier of the Boondocks Animated series. The reviews I heard where mixed. I take reviews with a grain of salt. USUALLY people who do reviews are hardly ever the intended audience. Me being a HUGE fan of the strip am willing to give the show a HUGE benefit of the doubt.

I thought it was pretty good. Their where some pretty funny parts. John Witherspoon is the OBVIOUS choice for granddad but Regina King playing Huey and Riley is going to take getting used. her pitch is just too daggon high. She sounds like a south park character. They also sound to much alike to be two different people. Lastly she really needs to work on her comedic timing. I could tell where I was supposed to laugh but I wasn’t always compelled to do so.

There where still funny moments. But they where mostly situational. Not really the cleverly delivered lines that I would expect from a a comic with so much social commentary. They should high hire some joke writers.

Highlights:
“Bet You wish you had your rain coat right now.”
“Don’t trust them new niggas over there.”

While the show wasn’t AS funny as I was expecting, (I had high hopes) the show did get a chance to get some social commentary in:

1. Rich white people have a different level of threat than the rest of us. Even if they found that the Reagan was the devil it wouldn’t faze them much. After all. no matter what they are still rich.
2. “He’s so articulate” Chis Rock has a joke about this. He was talking about Colin Powell. He would say that people LOVED Powell but and he would say that the only thing white people had to say about him is that “he’s so articulate.” The point of the joke was that Colin Powell was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the time. Of course he knows how to speak. Chris and Eric are making the same point, that white people are so amazed that black people can speak that they are not listening to what we say.
3. “In thirty years that boy will be President. and he’ll still be “I wonder if Bush Sr. knew with such certainty the destiny of Bush Junior after he dodged combat duty.

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