Cytat:The challenge taken on by prolific television writers Kenya Barris (Black-ish) and Alex Barnow (The Goldbergs, Family Guy) was to create a 50/50 balance between old and new social attitudes. This culturally safe approach allows the old characters to let fly with the barbed and often funny trash talk (...) But it also assures that preppy MIT grad John Jr., or JJ (Jessie T. Usher), who works for the FBI, is always around to reprimand the old guys for their uncouth, incorrect ways. (...) When old pop employs a certain word that is now verboten (and that was probably uttered more than any other word in every previous Shaft film), JJ exclaims, “Don't use the n-word.”

Cytat:A strange, angry attack on modernity that feels like the result of a group of bitter men griping about the metrosexualisation of a younger generation.

Cytat:Remember "Shaft"? How about more "Shaft," but with more hacky jokes about millennials and an incredibly ugly homophobic streak?

Cytat:Early on there’s a throwaway joke about an FBI boss having a transgender kid (the things he has to deal with!). It goes by quickly enough that it MIGHT BE forgotten, but then come the gay panic jokes — a lot of them — and the misogynistic jokes (because what women really want is a man who tells them what they want and never apologizes). As if that all wasn’t enough to sour what could have been a simply joyful experience, they also manage to get an extended fat-shaming joke in before the final showdown.

Cytat:Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow’s screenplay is pungent with subtle and blatant forms of sexism, misogyny and homophobia that could’ve easily and cleverly been fashioned into a dagger and turned around on the title character. John is positioned as a relic of the past, a fossil somehow preserved in time, until the picture begins to genuinely value and glamorize his outdated philosophies as assets. The father and son learn from each other, but it’s the younger Shaft who’s forced to change the most – discovering that guns are a necessary tool for defense, but more importantly, a way to win over the ladies. One action set piece has his smart nurse pal Sasha (Alexandra Shipp) completely enamored by him blowing away baddies as The Ronettes’ “Be My Baby” plays over the slow-motion shoot ‘em up.

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