If you've
ever contemplated attending the Acapulco Black
Film Festival (Who even knew there was one?),
then this little tidbit should help you make up
your mind. Are you ready? No, I'm serious. Are
you sitting down? Stop laughing. I'm serious.
Okay, here goes...
Halle Berry was nominated for Best Actress by
the festival for her performance in B*A*P*S.
This fact, of course, made me look up her IMDB
record to see if, perhaps, she'd received the
same nomination for her Razzie winning
performance in "Catwoman," a performance that
may, in fact, have been a better performance
than the one offered here.
In the film, two Black women move to Los Angeles
to become dancers and, instead, become Black
American Princesses (you should see the goose
bumps I have right now). Nisi (Berry) and Mickey
(Natalie Desselle) end up working with Mr.
Blakemore (a clearly horrifying and awful Martin
Landau, who should have returned his Oscar for
this performance). Director Robert Townsend
pulls in numerous favors with cameos from the
likes of Dennis Rodman, LL Cool J and others
along with performances from the likes of Bernie
Mac, Rudy Ray Moore and others that should have
helped salvage what is, at its core, a simply,
truly, totally and completely crappy film.
The vast majority of films I am willing to
discuss. I will listen to your arguments, your
ideas, your opinions no matter how much they
differ from my own. Then, there are those films
for which there can be no compromise. They are
films that I either consider beyond reproach or
beyond approach. "B*A*P*S" is a film that should
have never been made. It is completely lacking
in cinematic value barring a few, most likely
accidental, chuckles that save the film from
complete and total failure. Yet, it is a film I
will never watch again and it is a film that so
deeply wounded my psyche that now when I see the
DVD cover these goosebumps that have stayed with
me throughout my writing of this review will
resurface, I will cringe and, despite all the
skeletons in my closet, I will thank God that I
never appeared in "B*A*P*S".
©
Written by Richard Propes
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