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Article: Jungle Fever.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 29, 1991
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The Trashcan School
The General tastelessness of our pop-culture world combined with pandering to minorities has allowed two clever mediocrities, Madonna and Spike Lee, to bestride our screens like titans. Let us advert to their current hits. Ladies (in a manner of speaking) last: for Madonna, see next issue.
Spike Lee's Jungle Fever is, in most respects, a poorly thought out movie that makes little sense, its plot and subplots unable to mesh, its main characters either unbelievable or boringly obvious, its minor characters mostly cliches, its attempts to be experimental ludicrous, its pretensions to profundity even more so. The often unconvincing ...