Directed by Ralph Bakshi
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Xenon Pictures)
Ralph Bakshi utilizes stereotypes prevalent in the 1970s, and to a certain extent today, to expose injustices perpetrated on the black community. Scat Man Crothers and Philip (Michael) Thomas are sitting in a prison yard in Oklahoma planning their escape. Crothers tells the story of a trio of friends, animated versions of themselves, who go to Harlem to liberate the black man. They take on a fake black preacher, a racist cop and a godfather in the mafia. Each of these characters are represented as fat, ugly and selfish, eventually morphing into monstrous caricatures of their bigotries. This is a no-holds barred, politically incorrect assault on the senses, suppressed for over a quarter of a century, and certainly not for every taste.
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