Rating of
2/4
SIngli6 - wrote on 08/27/12
'Soul Man' is quite an impressive misstep of merriment. Leslie Nielson, James Earl Jones, and C. Thomas Howell are all excellent talents and the film gives them absolutely no material to work with, apart from 'white people are not cool'. You don't BLOODY SAY! The film's context arguably does not warrant the infamy its use of blackface has brought it, but the film is certainly is not clever enough to ever really sharpen 'Soul Man's edgy premise. Even still, deserves its fair share of spiteful criticism for being spectacularly unfunny.
