Grand Special Prize |
This movie started out really gripping with some clever juxtapositions of the two cultures. The hip-hop scene and the Jewish wedding set the stage for what seemed a very promising movie.
Of course it is Romeo and Julliet, but then so many movies and plays and books are Romeo and Julliet. It is a time honoured tradition to interpret a classic story.
Brooklyn Babylon is Marc Levin's 2001 film about the African American and Jewish community in Brooklyn, N.Y.
First of all, I'd like to reply to one of the reviewers (Kastellos) who dismisses hip-hop music as cheap and says that hip-hop artists become successful only on luck. Well, I'd like to inform him/her that The Roots are one of the most revered bands not only in the hip-hop world, but internationally, since they blend soul, hip-hop, rhythm'n'blues; their songs have been used for the soundtrack of dozens of movies and one of them topped the charts in 2002.
I agree with the last reviewer that the best thing about this film is the fact that it features DA ROOOOOOTS!!! Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter stars as an up and coming MC of an organic hip hop band....
I saw this last nite and while I enjoyed many of the performances and certain scenes I was left with nothing after I left the theatre.The whole movie was contrived and did not offer any solution or direction towards resolving the plot.
On a lot of levels this movies comes after several other films that belong in the same genre...do the right thing, save the last dance, romeo and juliet...
