As much as I loved Nicolas Cage in his weirder-than-weird “Willy’s Wonderland,” it was just too much of a struggle to love the even weirder “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” (2022). Cage is a strange dude in real life (ask the IRS) who apparently isn’t afraid to parody himself and his film roles, which “Massive Talent” accomplishes to pull off this Escher drawing of a movie-inside-a-movie-about-a-movie. A trip to Spain for a quick buck and a script-reading takes an awkward turn toward guns-blazing hijinks. Cage is sooo uncomfortably strange, it’s hard to see where reality ends and parody begins.
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Sometimes it’s good to not overanalyze things. Just shut up and watch the movie. “Undercover Brother” is a good example. It’s a stupid/funny 2002 homage to the 1970s blaxploitation movies in which self-assured black protagonists crack the case and stick it to The Man. It’s not a microcosm of anything, it’s not a symbol of anything, you’re not supposed to be sitting there wondering whether you should be laughing or whether laughing would confirm some ulterior motive by the filmmaker to show that you’re racially insensitive. Like I said, all you honkies just shut up, watch the movie, and laugh.
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