Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song Movie Review
Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song Review
"Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song" Overview
Rating: R
1971
Cast and Crew
Director : Melvin Van PeeblesProducer : Jerry Gross,Melvin Van Peebles
Screenwiter : Melvin Van Peebles
Starring : Simon Chuckster,Melvin Van Peebles,Hubert Scales,John Dullaghan,West Gale,Niva Rochelle,Rhetta Hughes
Once X-rated and widely reviled, Melvin van Peebles' blaxploitation "classic"
still doesn't fare well by either artistic standards or simple good taste, but
any student of the genre is well advised to check it out. From the first scene
-- in which our hero is scene as a young boy, earning his nickname as he
vigorously mounts a hooker -- the film screams of obscenity. From then on, it's
typical ghetto themes -- dead white guy, racist cops, Black Panthers, and a
little jaunt to Mexico. Viva la Peebles!
Aka Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
