Daddy, where does money come from?

Rating: Null/10 (9 September 2010)

"The Pursuit of Happiness" would make a good satire. As it is, it's a mindless endorsement of Reaganite policies which jettisons any real insights into the stresses of poverty in favour for a narrative sentimentally geared towards a "happy ending", our black hero's race never mentioned as he uses his million dollar megawatt smile (and mad ghetto skills with a Rubik Cube) to climb the corporate ladder and win the hearts and minds of his saintly white stockbroker masters.
Will Smith's "I Robot" pushed product placement to new levels, and this film does as well, Smith's son sporting a Ronald McDonald afro throughout. Coincidence or subliminal product placement? I don't know, but this film makes me want to eat flame-grilled black kids.
7/10 – Worth one viewing. Note the casting of the mixed race Thandie Newton as Smith's wife and Smith's repeated attempts to be the black Jimmy Stewart.