She Hate Me (2004)
6/10
Watchable, entertaining mess of ideas
18 May 2021
She Hate Me is like a whacky sex comedy with serious political ideas and probably like some criticism on current affairs circa 2005 (like George W Bush and affirmative action) and so forth. It has a great cast of characters who act very well and probably were lesser known for their time (Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington). It even stars Monica Bellucci and other stunning actresses.

With all these different components the movie manages to work pretty well with some fancy editing and unexpected kinds of footage (like seeing an actual vagina in a giving birth scene). Sometimes though, and more towards the end, I was shaking my head wondering what was going on. Still the movie has a good sense of humor (like this guy has 19 kids, "sheeeeiittt") even though it sort of ends at another head scratching moment (what is this now a polyamorous family?) which does in mind take the movie toward fantasy. Just because the lesbians are hot and Anthony Mackie is hot doesn't mean that they all make like a happy family together.

This is an odd movie with some problems (what exactly was Anthony Mackie's character in jail for?) and I'm sure if you dug into it maybe more and maybe less would make sense. At face value though it's an entertaining film and that's what matters at the end of the day.
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