Just A Bit Better Than "School Daze"

Rating: 1/10 (26 June 2001)

Possible Spoilers Here
Let's get one thing straight. I like Spike Lee, but I must say this to him and all film directors and producers. If I wanna see gratuitous sex in a film, I'll rent a porno... and won't be afraid to admit it. I'll really do it. It ain't that I mind sex and violence in major feature films. It's just insulting to me when Hollywood gives us sex and violence in flicks and they have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE STORY.
This film could have been a LOT better without the insulting sexual situations. Like I said, watching other people doin' it ain't the worst thing in the world. The problem with this film is that there was a sexual situation that actually occurred in the story and was essential to the plot... BUT WASN'T EVEN SHOWN!!! In fact, most of the sex that WAS shown featured people who weren't even characters in the story! They were figures in a senseless montage of sex and violence narrated by an obscure acquaintance of the main character.
With that aside, the story was actually interesting (as it usually is up to the middle of Spike Lee's flicks). As usual, however, Spike had to throw his little personal favorite artsy filming techniques in it and suture his patented ridiculous ending to the film. To be fair, if you like sports flicks, this one is a necessary evil because of what occurs in the story. If you like sex in movies for no reason, you'll like this one too. After all, the stupid sex scenes were as steamy as the MPAA will allow in an R-rated flick. If you're a drama-lover or a serious film watcher, this ain't a necessary flick.