flawed attempt to make a film about the legend that is Melvin Van Peebles. Still better than just about anything with Will Smith in it. Toe knee :-)

I love movies about movies, and this is one of the best. Baadasssss! is a love song to film-making, but first and foremost, a touching tribute to a father from a son. Surprisingly, Mario Van Peebles doesn't idealize his dad Melvin: as the writer, director and star of the film, he crafts on honest portrait showing the real man, warts and all. His approach lifts the movie beyond being just a great underdog story. It's a great film.

Good film.

Well, it looks kind of cheap in places, but as an admirer of Melvin's work, this was a lot of fun.

Fascinating film about a true pioneer.

"Despite the interesting subject and promise of the father-portraying-son dynamic, this plays very much like a standard biopic, lacking the dangerous spirit of the movie that inspired it."

A man makes a film and casts his son as his character's younger self. Three decades later that son makes a film about his father and plays his father's character, while casting his song as his (and his father's) character's younger self, as well as his father as a kid. Also there's an actor playing Bill Cosby while Bill Cosby plays himself.

Pretty good. I recommend seeing "Sweet Sweetbacks Badasss Song" first.

One of the best movies about movies. A powerhouse

Ser

Good, but once the actual filming of Sweet Back is finished, the rest of the film is just never as engaging.

What starts out as a weird, jumbled late '60s pseudo-documentary turns into an interesting, lovingly-crafted story about Mr Peebles and his drive to make a cinema for African-Americans everywhere.

It is badass. Mario Van Peebles does an amazing job emulating his father (Melvin) when he was making Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song. It was a hell of a lot better than I thought it was going to be, and is one of the better fliers that I've taken at the movie store. If you're a fan of both biopics and movies about the making of other movies, you'd be doing yourself a disservice to pass this up. Very good.

blaxploitation!