Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Horrible, fascist and poorly acted

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

The acting was horrible. Worse mother of the year your how you going to dump you only child off with your father without telling him his father just died. Oh and by the way this is their FIRST meeting. What the hell is that? I cannot imagine even an engaged loving father sending his only child to someone that is a stranger to them. The was a utter disjointed mess with very little redeeming value. Even Spike cameos as Mookie from "Do the Right Thing" were flat and uninteresting I felt sorry for Clarke Peters decent effort playing Bishop Enoch. It was brave to take on the role of a child molester preacher. I don't know if Spike Lee is fighting through religious issues in older years but working through your personal issues if clumsy way without comedy is not entertaining. It is more like watch a spectacular car wreck. You know it horrible but you are fascinated and can't look away. This is how this movie struck me. If I had the misfortune of watching this at the cinema house I would have walked out in spite of "car wreck fascination". .

The acting was horrible and the songs sucked. Also the story made no sense why did a well off mother send her vegan normal child to live with her poor God obsessed molester father who he never meet for a summer in the hood? It wasn't good It feels like they are trying to say something but the acting is so bad you can't feel it. Your better off talking to your grandmother and thinking about it your self because this is a confused moral with a movie made around it and it should be the opposite. We should be trying to understand the characters the reasons why they made there choices and the reasons why they think the way they do. The mother should of been shown at least once in the beginning to give some exposition on why she is leaving her son there or even why he never meet his grandfather and if it's because he is a molester then why did she send him there? The boy should of had more personality then just being a smart mouth that doesn't want to be there and I don't blame him. Also the scenes when they just talking, should be touching moments it just feels like they are reading out of a book. low budget or not this is horrible.

I thought this was the worst project out of all of Spike Lee's body of work. It takes you into the New York, Red Hook project, and follows a young boy, Flik, who's sent to New York from Atlanta, by his mother, to spend the summer with his "Holy Roller" grandfather. With long scenes of dialogue, this movie lacks action and conflict. Lee who wrote and directed this film, finally created real conflict within the story, in about the last 20 minutes of the movie, so I sat around waiting for it to get good, and as soon as it did, the movie ended which is why I rated it so poorly. The character development, and back story worked really well, but I think there was too much emphasis on setting up the conflict instead of showing and resolving. This movie really let me down in comparison to some of his other films.

I give this film an 8 out of 10 only because of it's obviously miniscule budget, a few more takes on some of the scenes and we would have yet another great 'Spike Lee Joint'. Gotta let you know, Spike Lee is my favorite director, has been since the death of Stanley Kubrick, and, although neither here or there, they both made/make superior films whose appreciation oftentimes came way too late! The film begins a bit preachy in its dialog, contemporary religious and social and political pontifications, and I am OK with that, it's what Spike has always done. The slice of life tale of a young boy spending a summer with an extremely religious grandfather he's just met, and the unexpected denouement is very good storytelling and very worthy of Spike Lee. I really wanna spoil the story, but, please, see it for yourself.