In between ‘early promise’ of She’s Gotta Have It and the massive success of Do the Right Thing came Spike Lee’s obligatory ‘difficult’ second, and perversely enough it was a musical. The social phenomenon of black US college students separating into groups of various degrees of ‘blackness’ was the big point here, but it gets lost in the raggedly-shot musical numbers. The music’s pretty turgid too – a brave attempt to mix trad West Side Storyesque musical numbers with the rather turgid sax-‘n’-fairlight funk-lite of the time does no ears any favours, sadly.
Richard Davies
December 1, 2010 at 9:24 pm
No trace of Eric, Angel Face, Mr Whacker etc…;-)