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Mr. Wong

Mr. Wong

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Laugh ...
Review: Mr. Wong is the funniest, most irreverent thing you will ever see on your television. Pam Brady (Miss Pam) co-wrote "South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut" and this newest creation of hers is even lewder, cruder and more off the wall. Mr. Wong was a huge hit on Icebox and this video has new stuff that's never been seen before. Kyle McCulloch (Mr. Wong) is also a South Park writer and his character is so freakin' funny it makes you cry. If you like The Simpsons and South Park and you like really outrageous humor, you will love this video!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: warped, but funny
Review: the satire is way out there, and if you are in any way PC you will not like this film as i see on reivews here, but if you like wacko cutting edge films this is for you.

the character development is wonderfully sick and gruesome. its hard to like wong and pam, yet they end up growing on you. or at least they did for me and my girlfriend. animation is crude but effective part of the program. i also liked the theme song. the harpsichord solo adds a bizarre but somehow appropriate touch.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: warped, but funny
Review: the satire is way out there, and if you are in any way PC you will not like this film as i see on reivews here, but if you like wacko cutting edge films this is for you.

the character development is wonderfully sick and gruesome. its hard to like wong and pam, yet they end up growing on you. or at least they did for me and my girlfriend. animation is crude but effective part of the program. i also liked the theme song. the harpsichord solo adds a bizarre but somehow appropriate touch.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: It's all racist to me
Review: The two main characters are Ms. Pam and Mr. Wong, respectively voiced by Pam Brady and Kyle McCulloch. Ms. Pam is a self-absorbed and sadistic single white female and Mr. Wong is her 85-year-old servant. The Mr. Wong character is vile, foul-mouthed, grotesque and all-around offensive. His living arrangements are no better than a jail cell; the bed he sleeps on is made of wooden slats arranged on cinder blocks and he uses two bricks to lay his head upon.

These people show no creativity beyond rehashing tired and lame racist jokes through the played-out medium of cartoons. The cartoon itself resembles shiny paper cutouts pasted onto popsicle sticks, moving back and forth.

The two main arguments used to deflect criticism of the show is that Asian Americans cannot take a joke or laugh at themselves and that the show is just an equal opportunity bigot, making fun of both whites and Asians. But these are paltry arguments and do not even address the main point of the criticisms. That is, this cartoon perpetuates white racist attitudes and actions toward anyone who is non-white. This is not anything to scoff at; we have history on our side. Mr. Wong is yet more proof of the mass media's complicity in keeping the racist flame alive.


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