Fifty Shades of Black Official Trailer #1 (2016) - Jane Seymour, Marlon Wayans Movie HD
Parody of Fifty Shades of Grey has nothing to say funny or otherwise about the S&M book and movie phenomenon
In her recent Jezebel piece Im So d**n Tired of Slave Movies, Kara Brown notes, I want stories about Solomon Northup and Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman to be told. But I also want to watch movies about black debutante b***s and the Great Migration and a coming-of-age movie about a black teenager in Houston who loves to skateboard and gets into trouble with her Desi best friend.
Missing from Browns wish list is a desire for a black Seltzer & Friedberg the perpetrators of Epic Movie and the like mainly because a) no one in their right mind wants that, and b) weve already got one, and his name is Marlon Wayans. And with Fifty Shades of Black he continues his pattern of creating movie simulacra calling them parodies or even spoofs puts far too fine a point on it whereby were supposed to laugh because we recognize the thing that is being reenacted, rather than at some comedic point that the reenactment is making or even at a funny or silly joke that has been draped upon the reenactment.
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The first Scary Movie had its moments, which seems shocking in retrospect since Wayans, Seltzer and Friedberg are all credited co-writers. (Perhaps that movie represents the Skynet-attains-consciousness moment that some time-traveling film critic should attempt to destroy.) Since then, however, Wayans has subjected us to countless insults to our collective intelligence and sense of humor, including two A Haunted House entries and now Fifty Shades, a laboriously humorlessjab at a movie that already seemed halfway to self-parody on its own.
Compared to other recent Wayans efforts, this one at least maintains a sense of focus, slogging through a scene-by-scene re-do of the original movie with only a few departures into other titles. (Whiplash and Magic Mike, if you must know.) But we still wind up with a slapdash movie thats more unbearable than the heavy-breathing best-seller and its emotionally timid screen adaptation, even though the dreadful Fifty Shades of Black has the audacity to think it has earned the right to mock the slightly-less-dreadful Fifty Shades of Grey phenomenon.
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Hannah Steale (Kali Hawk, Black Jesus) interviews business magnate Christian Black (Wayans, who co-wrote with Haunted House co-conspirator Rick Alvarez), and look, Im not recapping the plot, which touches on just about every moment from Fifty Shades of Grey except for the glider. But heres an example of the ha-ha jokes: Christian puts Hannah over his knee to spank her. He hurts his hand. She feels nothing. He hits her with a shovel. She puts on lipstick. He hits her with a stool, which shatters. She knits. Then she tells him she doesnt feel anything down there since getting b**t implants. Comedy!
As an actress, Hawk comes off as game and misused, and I felt genuinely bad for her for the films entire, nearly unendurable 92-minute running time. I also got very depressed watching Jane Seymour play an oblivious racist, Florence Henderson as a potty-mouthed nymphomaniac, and Fred Willard just being there at all. Jenny Zigrino, as Hannahs oversexed roommate, is subjected to perhaps the films most egregiously embarrassing dialogue and costuming, with the central joke being that shes awful because shes zaftig and likes s*x.
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If anyone involved with Fifty Shades of Black should take pride in their work, its cinematographer David Ortkiese and production designer Ermanno Di Febo-Orsini, who recreate the look of Grey right down to specific shots and sets, as should Wayans personal trainer, who gave the actor a Jamie Dornan-comparable torso. Everyone else should bury this one deep in the back of the bookshelf, like so many rightfully chagrined E.L. James fans.
Source: http://www.thewrap.com/fifty-shades-of-black-review-marlon-wayans-kali-hawk-jane-seymour/
