Loqueesha (2019) User Reviews

An embarrassing vanity project of the worst variety

[Deimos-remus · 1/10 · 21 August 2019]

Making this film in this era is just about the worst idea a comedian could've come up with- I don't understand how this was released, let alone funded. This is the most nauseating vanity project I've ever watched; a comedian, in his self-professed infinite charm, wit and wisdom gets on his soapbox to school the rest of us about The Issues™

The twist? He's vocally masquerading as Sassy Black Lady™ (basically an inarguably offensive modern day equivalent to minstrel shows and blackface) because according to him, minorities and women are completely phasing white men out of the entertainment industry, or more specifically, radio. (as if talk-radio isn't already dominated by male conservatives- something they always seem to conveniently ignore in this discussion). But at the end of the day, It's also just writer-director-editor lead Jeremy Saville lampshading ("hey, as long as I address that the premise is totally racist at some point, I'll move on and it'll be forgiven, right?") it's completely awful- I mean, at one point, bartender Joe (Saville) claims to be a better black woman than a real one. I get that this in jest, but seriously?

It's almost kind of fascinating. On one hand, there's *maybe* a shred of Saville having innocent (yet very very misguided) intentions in making this, but on the other, it's such a clear vanity project about the guy playing himself so he can have a platform to vent about society's problems (or more specifically, the problems that comedians have run into in this modern "PC culture"). With all the lampshading Saville does, it's hard to not see him guilty of the racism he's supposedly denouncing.

Beyond all this, if you weren't offput by its reprehensible premise, the film is technically dull, has very poor production value, and there's absolutely no style or flavor to how it's filmed, acted, shot or edited. It's no doubt, an amateurish production through and through. As a whole, it's just flat-out embarrassing and shameful.

Truly a terrible comedy.

[NickGagnon942 · 1/10 · 9 March 2020]

So I checked out the comedy Loqueesha. The film is about a bartender who is good at giving advise and needs money to send his son to a private school. He gets a job as a talk radio host but he does it in a voice of a black woman named Loqueesha and things go from there.

It struck some controversy last year as being racist and insensitive. Many could not believe the film was made and many took it as offensive and intolerant. And if a film strike that kind of controversy then I need to see it. The film has a whopping 1.2 on IMDB.

So is it as bad as everyone says? I say yes and not because of the film being racist or intolerant. Simply I did not find anything at all funny. Not a joke or gag works at all. Its just a total mess of incompetent film making. Also it caries some awful green screen effects and pretty bad adr voice over work. Also the film comes of a pretentious and smug like as if the director/star of the film was trying to say something deep with this film. Talk about a vanity project. Its a complete mess, its boring and most of all unfunny. It has my vote for worst movie of 2019 and one of the worst comedies I have ever seen.

The Unholy Trinity

[tacelano · 1/10 · 30 May 2023]

Watched this thinking: Wow the premise sounds awful and offensive, perhaps it's amusingly bad as it's written, directed and stars one person.

So let's go through what we have in this film:

A painfully unfunny leading man who literally will not stop talking. It appears he wrote almost all the lines for himself.

The jokes and comedy are offensive, sometimes due to being trite and racist but primarily due to being painfully and I mean painfully unfunny. I believe the only remotely amusing lines are delivered by other characters (when they aren't busy praising the protagonist).

Maybe 4 sets intermixed with stock footage.

Preachy, dumb advice that also soapboxes in an extremely unpleasant manner.

Irritating attempts to justify the premise of the film within the film. Like pre-empting criticism about the premise.

To sum it up I'll quote the film:

"This is not a crime, this is theater."

That is wrong. This film should be a crime and is not theater.

A Modern Embarrasment

[dreweharding · 1/10 · 4 March 2020]

As if the cheap production, uninspired cinematography and bad acting weren't enough; Jeremy Saville had to use his vanity project for a poisonous message. I can only imagine that the motivation for this project was that Saville was tired of losing arguments with strangers in bars whenever he voiced his deluded opinion that white men face more discrimination than anyone else in the modern world. There is a moment in this film where Saville wrote lines for an African woman that had her character admit that he was better at being black.

Do not see this sad movie. Let it be forgotten along with anyone that allowed it to come to light.

How could this even happen?

[tomandfawnweber · 1/10 · 14 September 2020]

I think I may have found the worst movie in recent history. Its Loqueesha. This movie is truly bad in every possible way. Its not the enjoyable "over the top/what am i even watching?" bad, like The Room. It's not the obviously low budget, "visible nylon strings attached to to jaws of a giant rubber spider" bad, like an Ed Wood film. And it definitely is not the "shock-camp, wink-wink, we're all in on the joke" bad like Sharknado or any of the intentionally hilariously bad offerings by The Asylum. It is just straight up bad. It is badly written and equally badly acted. The production is horrible, with cheap camera work, terrible editing and nonsensical green screen effects. The story and message are outdated, offensive, and misguided. Worst of all... it's supposed to be a comedy, but there are no funny scenes. It actually seems to be trying to send some sort of moralizing message, but does the exact opposite. Its hard to imagine this could have ever been released in this day and age. You can get a little taste from the trailer, but you can't really appreciate the full Badness unless you invest the whole 98 minutes. That's a big ask and extra challenging because it doesn't even really lend itself to be a drinking game, but perhaps one could find some already wasted friends and make it a simple stamina contest (like holding your breath or not blinking) to see who can last the longest without giving up. It's just that bad.

one word: delusional

[FeastMode · 1/10 · 15 May 2020]

There is so much i can say but i will try to keep it brief. i have a very different view on racial comedy than most. i very much enjoy it. seeing a white guy act like a stereotypical black guy/girl is funny to me. as is a black guy acting like a stereotypical white guy. or latino. or arabic. or anything. i grew up on family guy and south park, shows that frequently use politically incorrect racial humor. chappelle show did it hilariously. my favorite key and peele skits are their various latino bits. comedy has no limits

so when i heard about this movie, i was down. additionally, the way i heard about it was from multiple youtube reviewers worst movies of the year list. and i frequently enjoy watching terrible movies.

let me first address the racial aspect. i didn't personally find it malicious with its racial intent. whether he crossed a line with his performance is up to each individual person. but i didn't view it as him making black women sound stupid. i view it as him going full stereotype because that should be the funniest route (keyword: should). if he was imitating a non-stereotypical black woman, it would just be him doing a higher pitched voice. that's not intriguing from a comedic perspective.

when i watched marlon wayan's show "Marlon," he does this impression of a fully stereotypical black woman. it cracked me up every time he did it. i understand that it's not controversial because he is black, but my point is, that's funny. and in that same way, it should be funny when a white guy does it.... if it's a good impression in the first place.

but it's not. it barely mad me laugh at all. same with his indian impression. plus he sounded like a man. the rest of the movie is barely funny. most of the intentional humor falls flat. i laughed at a bunch of unintentional humor, but not enough to make it an overall enjoyable experience. although i did find enjoyment from being shocked at how bad it was.

what did i like? i was going to say some of the scenes where he's giving advice were oddly watchable... but the advice was mostly generic and sometimes bad. so.... i liked nothing.

what was bad. the acting was horrendous. like seriously did he get these ppl off the street? i'm not one to notice lighting and sound quality but omg. the dialogue was trash. the story was ridiculously bad, sometimes to the point of shock. seriously jaw-dropping moments. the music was a joke. the ADR was awful

at it's core, this movie is delusional. i feel like half the time it's trying to make the lead feel better about himself. like in real life. characters tell him "i'm proud of you" on more than one occasion. he legitimately tries to tell the audience that he knows what it means to be a black woman. i honestly couldn't believe some of the decisions that were made. just make a comedy. trying to have life lessons in this kind of movie is absurd. (1 viewing, 5/13/2020)

SPOILERS

at the end of the movie he confesses to the producers. the old producer suggests that he continue on as loqueesha after he confesses to the public. son goes "great idea dad!" jaw.... dropped.... wow. loqueesha guy says lets do a facebook poll and let the fans decide. 20% vote to fire. 40% vote for the joe show, where he's just himself. 40% vote for loqueesha. so they decide to do both shows. as i'm typing this i literally scratched my head in befuddlement. my brain hurts from how dumb this ending is. he would be run out of town by the public.

and hey, suicide girl, maybe jump from a higher bridge with some rocks at the bottom or something. she was like 20 feet above water. you're definitely not dying.

and the love interest lmao. she yells at him, tells him he's racist and that he betrayed her. then he says but i love you. and she says something like, that's what i was gonna say. i love you. BRO jkasrfhlkkdrfp[ f'ojawef;artf [-9auw-9ujp-0fvwsp0w wfl;; fjpos.

like omg adjlsakjdfflkjwlfkjasdlf. i don't even know what to type. how can you write story and think it's even a tiny bit believable

New levels of bad

[Travo71 · 1/10 · 24 December 2020]

Wow, sorry there was no negative number to rate. How was this movie funded? One of the worst writers ever , I feel bad for the cast having to b n this train wreck

not even funny and racist

[katelynsantiago · 1/10 · 17 January 2020]

Where do I even start let's start with the name of the whole movie it's like he took a hat and put all of the basic "ghetto" "stereotype" black girl names mixed it up and picked one. He directed wrote and stared in the movie, throughout the whole movie he was never forced to act like a black female it was all his own choice and the notion that he would have gotten the job if he was black? was he trying to make the audience sympathize with him, was he trying to make the white man victim, that was a choice and a very bad one. That might be the only funny line in the whole movie but it's not funny for the reasons he wanted them to be funny it's funny because it's stupid. Throughout the whole movie no one seems to have a problem with it at all and at the end he tries to wrap it all up like oh I have morals I'm a good person so what I did wasn't bad and then on top of everything else his actions had zero consequence whatsoever nobody was mad at all which is completely false if you would've done that in this day and age your life would have been over completely. In the first like two minutes of the whole movie it starts off with some bullshit ass moral lesson about being yourself, then some angry black girl walks in complains about it man and then he tells her to shut up something along the lines of that. The next day she comes back with flowers and a job like that ever happens, on a small slip of paper that only has three lines on it and one of the lines is Minority and black females are welcome to apply. Just Forget that one line just read the other ones like WHAT. Then he ropes another black guy to help him which would never happen in real life because they would slap you. If he wanted to make a comedy about a black Radio host why didn't he just hired a black woman why pretend to be black I can't understand why . This reminds me what they used to do back in the old days where Black people can't have rolls in TV shows or movies so they would use black face to portray black people I'm pretty sure people see the problem with this because it has one star rating how worse can you do that you wasted your time you wasted your credibility as a filmmaker and as a writer and as a actor because the acting in this whole movie was horrendous what ever chance you had in becoming a filmmaker after this film just went to the shitter because you decide to make a racist movie full of microagression towords trans and gay people and a big aggression towards black people and you thought It was a good idea you thought it was gonna be funny even though the whole movie was completely un funny and your black voice was not even that good if I could give this zero I definitely would. it's not racist in the sense that saying no I hate black people it's racist in a sense that you're making fun of my people. Why did you have to put on a voice act like a black woman thinking that it was funny thinking that it was entertaining, is was entertaining it was funny but not for the reasons you wanted it to be funny, it was funny because who in the hell would make this, I was funny because I was laughing at the creator and not the content. That was a choice.

Racist, sexist, transphobic

[robertsmithmullins · 17 January 2020]

Don't. Don't watch this. Watch macdoesit on YouTube for a full review on the entire movie.

Complete Garbage nothing good

[maggieh-41778 · 1/10 · 15 July 2021]

I hope the man that wrote this gets therapy or prison either or. I hope that his parents are deeply ashamed of this movie because I would be.

You Have To See It To Believe It

[Brillfury · 1/10 · 14 January 2024]

Like the title of the review says, you really have to see it to believe it.

Even if the plot itself wasn't problematic, and it certainly is, everything else about the movie is also terrible.

This is an independent comedy written and directed by the main guy, who sounds a lot like Norm Macdonald, but without even a shred of his comic talent.

He plays a bartender who dispenses folksy advice to patrons of the bar, and one day an opportunity to work for a radio station pops up, which coincides with his ex-wife demanding that he pay for their child's expensive school.

The radio station rejects his submission, but he notices they specifically wanted women or minorities, so he invents a character called Loqueesha and submits a new demo.

The voice he does is ridiculous, he sounds exactly like himself pretending to be black and "sassy". Honestly he sounds like Lindsey Graham. Nobody would ever believe that was a black woman, yet he fools everyone seamlessly. The plot gets more ridiculous from there.

But maybe maybe a person could forgive the stupid premise IF it was actually funny. But it's not. Not for one single moment. In fact, a lot of it is pretty boring. There are lots of clips of him pretending to be Loqueesha and answering people's call in questions, and it gets very dull.

The acting is so bad. The sets are bad. The dialogue is bad. It's not even a "so bad it's good movie". It's dreadful. He dedicated the movie to his parents and some twisted part of me would love to know what their reaction was.

Sometimes you just have to go at it with an open mind.

[nagikevin93 · 8/10 · 16 July 2020]

I watched this movie and came to find all these negative comments. I can bet these critics haven't watched this movie. It's excellent in its own right. It got a story and substance and very daring.

Comedy Gold!

[EyeSeesMovies · 10/10 · 15 January 2020]

I'm not a paid reviewer. This movie is actually funny! The majority of the people who gave it thumbs -down probably didn't even watch it. Give it a chance.

One of Albie Selznick's finest!

[bulutmuminoglu · 10/10 · 5 July 2020]

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. The production quality was excellent and the movie didn't fail to keep me entertained every single second. The movie was absolutely hilarious and all the other movie makers must take notes from this movie as it has close to no imperfections. Absolutely Brilliant!!!

one of my favorite movies. (long review strap in)

[nsledbetter · 10/10 · 21 April 2020]

Brilliant, just absolutel ty brilliant. a wild ride that is unforgiving. my wife was crying and laughing from the thrill

This movie is very poignant

[jebruce · 10/10 · 25 July 2020]

Loved it! This is not a racist movie! This is a very poignant and funny movie. We laughed and cried. Everyone who got all uptight about it was looking for something to get mad about missed the triumph of the human spirit in the message of this film- honesty, integrity, and accepting and appreciating different cultures. Too bad for them. WATCH THIS! It's great!