BAMBOOZLED (2000)

Spike Lee is shocked, shocked that blacks still get a big kick out of "Amos & Andy" and all that gang. Two decades past its expiration date, Lee’s satire substitutes pontificating for controversial ideas while NETWORK supplies a loose dramatic template. Damon Wayans uses a bizarre voice to keep his distance and the great, light-skinned tap dancer Savion Glover has no screen presence until he goes, strikingly, blackface. Lee apparently misses the ghastly irony. A self-serving montage at film’s end mixes black-faced whites, shuffling darkies and house domestics as if these weren’t actors doing a job of work.