My faith in Spike Lee was restored by this.. The "joke" is pretty heavy-handed of course,but played out very plausibly...The digital look of the film ,we have become well accustomed to by now. At the time this only served to further add an immediacy that probably kept some audiences guessing as to how seriously they should take things. Mos Def ,(first time i remember seeing him) with his hyper-radical crew,and his insistence on a name change to "Big Black African" should leave noone in doubt that this IS a black(sic)comedy. Your funny bone will surely stop vibrating though, as the credits roll; showing, a catalogue of appallingly racist toys and "knick knacks" ,like the "money box" that Damon Wayans has in the film...