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Love, Sex and Eating the Bones (2003)
cheap caricatures
Aside from Ed Robertson's performance this movie had absolutely nothing new to offer. It was a cheap version of African American projects like 'LoveJones' with some American Pie-type humour. There was no real depth to the characters and the script was just weak. If you want formulaic blandness check this film out.
You see some folks seem to think that audiences REALLY want to be reminded that men only think about sex, Black men try almost anything to get a woman and ditzy blonde women really want Black men. This film needed a big dose of Dan Savage -why couldn't jasmine orally pleasure hill harper? why is the film so heteronormative? Why did it need to rely on imported African American caricatures (professional Black woman - check; gold digger out for a loaded man - check; 'artsy' Black man who is troubled but has talent to show the world if only he'd be given a break by the SYSTEM - check; hypersexual black females in beauty salon - check; Jamaican caricatures - check)? If Toronto wants to avoid celebrating mediocrity it needs to challenge complacent artists that think they can just roll out American cliches with some Scarborough flava and Haitian tokens.