Purely Joyful Movie!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

It's a great show, I love it so much. If you are an activist, art lover, or interested in having a good laugh in general this is the show to watch. I love everything about this show and their quotes are beautiful. Huey Freeman for president! The things I truthfully love about this show is just how the characters are descriptive of all types of people, Huey Freeman is the activist black man who feels the N word is not a description for black people and I love that very much within itself because since watching this show I have become an activist since, Riley is the person who doesn't care at all about anything, except for himself and what a definition of a real thug and gangsta is, which is said because many of our young African American men feel they need to portray themselves that way. Robert Freeman, is a lazy man who feels everything should be around him only and the world revolves around him, and last, but not least Uncle Ruckus, is the African American man who is against his own race and believes white men are superior to every race (pretty much a black republican). Once again this is sad because there are African American men who despise our race and think the same way Uncle Ruckus does, now they definitely don't think life was better with slavery like Uncle Ruckus, but they definitely have pretty much the same mindset.

I've gotten plenty of laughs out of the boondocks and they have a insightful perspective for sure, but there's also been a bunch of times where i've shook my head thinking, yeesh, black people exist, get over it. The boondocks is one of those shows who pokes at the ignorance of social standards by playing them out, and like any show, there are things it takes too far.Basically the only sensible, open minded person in the entire series is Huey Freeman, the main character who often predicts the wild, ridiculous fallout of the exploits of his grandad Jebediah Freeman and brother Riley Freeman, to no avail. Being the only reasonable character in a world full of bigots and disillusioned saps, Huey and his sage advice is constantly ignored in the favor of selfish, harebrained or otherwise ridiculous plots, often ending in gunfire, samurai sword battles or someone getting swindled. So you can expect a show that puts an emphasis on nigga culture as the driving force behind much of the shows plot to basically showcase one giant melting pot of ignorance, which is actually brilliantly captured.This is, so far, the only show that can reimagine what it would be like if martin luther king came back from the dead in our time, or highlight the ridiculousness of the r kelly trial without seeming pretentious. It has a great way of taking a step back from all the ego and social stigma and make light of it in a way that really just makes you shake your head at the world and all we've grown used to. But on occasion it crosses the threshold from exposing ignorance to personifying and even glorifying it, and you just have to thank god Huey at least has a clear head on the matter. For one, i don't know if all the "Nigga Moment" episodes are helping anyone redefine their reality and it seems hypocritical next to their own criticisms of BET for perpetuating the same stereotypes. Buuuut i do agree that BET is the single worst proponent of social segregation in the modern world.

Well some episodes of the cartoon are good and some are just plain boring, it's funny like the episode with no chicken is hilarious of the episode where Heuy and Riley had to go to jail with their school about rape, I love that episode but then again there are some really really doll boring episode about that one when a teacher called Riley the N word, it's boring because nothing really happens, sometimes the episode can be ignorant like when Martin luther king said "Michae jackson and usher are not a genre of music" thats just ignorant and annoying but all in all boondocks can be sometimes fun and funny to watch its not like South park, South park is just amazing and funny and smart, I love south park but boondocks is good to, it's my 3rd favourite cartoon 1.South park 2.Family guy 3.Boondocks. :D

An antidote for an ailing contemporary black mainstream culture, Aaron McGruder's comic stip turned TV show offers finally much needed criticism of a culture jaded and leaden with ennui from years of unmitigated platitude. Whether it's played out gangsta pop, the "coonery" imagery of movies like soul plane, constant images of bling and brand flashing rappers and just plain flashing from half naked women in music videos, the resurgence of lame black stereotypes, this show satirizes all that garbage and in the process partially sanitizes the dirt and grime of mainstream black culture. To be fair, this show offers a number of new and old black stereotypes itself, but almost always they are presented as satire–though sometimes they are presented as just extreme sick jokes, like the character of Uncle Ruckus, whose basically the most submissive, uncle Tom, self-hating black man you would ever meet.Boondocks replaces Family Guy and Southpark as the animated show with the sharpest bite. With its gratuitous use of the words "nigger" or "nigga", bitch, and constant cussing beeps, the show deals in frank language, which is congruent with the general straight up frankness of the entire show. One of the great things about the it is this appeal of candour–such a refreshing break from the norm of most black TV shows--or any other kind of show for that matter. It doesn't relent on any issue. But the show has a contradictory deliverance of satirical message and apathetic nihilism. Then again, the fact that the show highlights the often undiscussed assaults on the black collective consciousness (I glad that someone finally cited the problems of BET and movies like Soul Plane)is enough to redeem it. Many shows are satirical, and there have been black satirical shows too. What's truly innovative about it has more to do with its style. A silk road is paved between the animation form and the show's content. The combination of Eastern influenced animation and the black American themes is something new to our culture It's the first black themed TV show that I ever saw animated in the anime style. The manga inspired fight scenes are particularly enjoyable to watch. I mentioned that this was an antidote for an ailing contemporary black mainstream culture; well, I'll modify that and declare it is an antidote for an ailing mainstream culture as well, because it doesn't only attack aspects of black culture. It's always such a relief when something comes along and kicks the bull---- out of the mindlessness of the current state of affairs. Two of McGruder's chief influences did it: All in the Family and Monty Python. So maybe somewhere deep down in himself, McGruder reverently strives for the greatness of his favorites comedies on the edge as he irreverently attacks the things he despises. The Boondocks is a likely candidate to be in those high ranks.