Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

the audience applauded

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Considered to be Spike's worst, I still found this engaging (ha ha) as his others. Randle holds her own as a New York actress, dropped from her agency after walking out on a QT audition. Idiot. Footnote: If you see how bad Randle's character's acting is, you question how she's come so far. Now out of the work, scoring the odd extra audition, Randle finds a new way to tap into her talents, as a phone sex operator. This is where the movie gets juicy, thanks to Randle's colorful callers, one Hispanic couple cracked me up. Unfortunately, one of her callers is a unhinged stalker, where the movie later shifts into drama, where originally, really, it was an intended drama. The stalker who played De Caprio's dying friend in The Basketball Diaries, a year earlier, sent some chills through me when getting to the crux his threats, on poor suffering Randle, where this change of mood to the film was good. Randle's ex, a good hearted thief (Issah Washington) isn't really, helping as wanting to get back with her. Her good friend/neighbor, Jimmy, of course played by Lee, who sort of bludges off of her, tries to talk her out of this dangerous and nowhere job. Lee's quite good in this, a proved actor, given the right environment. Too, Randle's being harassed by a middle aged Indian store owner, who rejects his advances. Underneath, this is a movie about woman's rights, not wanting to conform, like when being asked to strip for a movie audition, where she blows other ones later on these same grounds. It too shows how dangerous it can be, when you get too friendly with the wrong client, who sounds so nice and genuine over the phone. Women shouldn't have to tolerate drooling men, or sick minds. Randle's character's independence, I really liked, and she does have a real sexy voice. If you're a Lee fan, don't shun this one out, or if you're an avid Lee fan, it goes without saying. Opening score is great, as is a guest appearance by Madonna, fondling a cute dog, plus all those dropping phones in the street, in it's finale, with Randle and partner making up.

Spike Lee is one confusing filmmaker. Sometimes he makes masterpieces like (Bamboozled) or (25th Hour). Sometimes he makes good movies like (Jungle Fever), (Malcolm X). Or at worst just enjoyable ones like (Inside Man). But, on the other side, and what an other side that is, he makes weak rather stupid and aimless movies with enjoyable nothing, like (Summer of Sam), (He Got Game) or (Girl 6).The funny thing about this last bunch of movies is that it alleges a very serious case. And that what gets on your nerve badly, since the level of the movie is chokingly shitty in delivering whatever it says about such a case.I don't know. Is it vanity ? Is it the unsecured trial of new ways to tell a story ? Is it only laziness and sluggishness ? However what I do know is that I didn't conclude much of Girl 6, or enjoy anything of it as well !The matter is easy to review. We have parallel story lines that go exactly like this : a black girl who works in the sex phone business; making a living during her suspended career as respectful actress wanna-be, her talks with a guy who loves her, a good neighbor, her fantasies about herself as one of the black icons in the history of Hollywood, her dealing with her customers as horny lonely mostly sad callers, one of them is a deranged, and an accident of a black poor child who's trying to survive. Actually the movie moves so outrageously tepid from storyline to the other in what seems as arithmetical order AND THAT WAS IT !Making a movie about the sex phone business is so inspiring idea. Aside from being different – rarely seen – subject, it could read many delicate problems in one society. But with that script forget it !The effort done by (Theresa Randle) to make her character believable and effective, the movie's only positive thing, was wholly wasted among the cold dealing with the material. The movie has so artistically poor, sometimes immature, personality. There is no focusing on one pure thing. And with silent drama and uninterested camera it made me want to shut it off. The love interest's storyline was handled in originally dull way. Actually everyone and everything looked idiot. And the end, oh the end, was the top of what this movie can achieve of stupidity; the heroine goes to a cinema that shows "girl 6" and there is a wide board hanging over the same street with the word "The End" ???!!!It's a journey from knowing that sex is needed obscenely trite whether in Hollywood or else. Women are goods to be sold for the men's desire anyhow. Or how we all live daydreams, having too hard time to fulfill them through big deranged world, or surrendering for them lastly. But as a matter of fact this movie has no clear point at all. Those were my wild guesses. So "maybe" it wanted to say something of them, none of them, all of them (!) Whatever its real meaning is it was shown as disarranged as all the disarranged scenes; that turned it eventually into a boring nonsense that has something serious but surely lost.This is bad movie, and a draft of real good one in the same time. Alas. Feverish P.S : did you notice how the standard of the celluloid was getting worse by the end of the scene just about every scene (with big black dots appear intermittently on the high right side of the screen) like the case with some ancient home made movies, the early poorly made new wave French films, or in the very old American ones, especially Tom & Jerry's ?! Is it a glitch? Or is it some *artistic* way from Lee to increase the size of this movie's crap ?!

SPOILERS THROUGH:I haven't heard of to many movies that center on the phone sex industry before. I went into this movie not knowing to much about it although I did know it was a Spike Lee picture. And after seeing it I must say I thought it above average though I'm not surprised a lot of people may not like this as it is definitely not a mainstream flick.Girl 6 seems to be a very polarizing film in that people seem to either absolutely love it or despise it. I feel neither way, I liked it a lot and could see maybe loving it after I see it again a few times but as it stands now I see it as an interesting, unusual film that takes on a little bit of a taboo subject and features some great performances but that still has some flaws.I'm not going to get into reviewing the plot but will say that Theresa Randle should really be a household name as she was excellent. This would have been a very very difficult role to play (and play well) And she did that. I think the performance was perfect. I will also say I disagree with a lot of critics about the fact that this film almost makes the phone sex industry look to glamorous. I don't agree with that view at all, in fact one of the film's strength's to me, was how strong it was on mood and atmosphere. I do not think this was an industry made to look glamorous, I can't see many people watching this film and thinking:there's an easy, glamorous, exciting fun job. Quite the contrary, this film did with phone sex what "Boogie Nights" did with the porn industry and that is show the inner workings in a detached, dispassion rather monotonous way. I think the film's to be commended for that.Then there's the question of the movie maybe being unrealistic in Girl Six's gradual addiction to the job. In terms of that, it would be difficult for me to comment as I have no idea whether phone sex workers ever do in fact become addicted, but I will say that there isn't much in life that someone, somewhere, probably has not had an addiction to and I think Theresa Randle does a wonderful job in painting a poignantly sad picture of the loneliness that envelops Judy/Girl 6 so whether or not this plot line maybe realistic, strong character development helps with that. And I did enjoy the small appearances from some well known people such as Madonna and Tarrentino.As much as I enjoyed this film there were things that I didn't like although maybe I shouldn't call them flaws, more like frustrations. First, something that others have mentioned is the "why factor". I wanted to see more things explained and less ambiguity. A good example would be when she gives Bob her phone number. There's a lot that's not explained and I wish there had been at least one time we'd gotten to see Girl 6 actually interact with one of these customers in person or at least seen more character development of the men. I felt a lot of time was spent on the fantasy scenes, which I know many liked but that I thought went on to long. I felt to many scenes lasted to long, while others that seemed more interesting were dropped to quickly. I felt the movie was to disjointed at times and was a bit to arty for my tastes at times, with the camera work and some of the imagery.So I'd have to say, for me, this was a daring picture, an above average picture, a well acted(wonderfully acted) picture, but not a fantastic picture. Personally, I think many would hate it, even if it had little to no flaws at all. I mean any film that takes on a controversial subject matter is going to have a lot of detractors. My vote is 7 of 10. I'd definitely recommend it and see it again but there were a lot of moments I wasn't that into as well. Still worth seeing though and really should not have received some of the bad reviews it did from some critics considering all the garbage out there. My vote's 7 of 10.

This movie is by far one of my favourite Spike Lee movies, along with "She's Gotta Have It" It follows the trials and tribulations of an actress trying to make it in New York City. She decides to take a job as a phone sex operator until she gets an acting job. Theresa Randle gives an excellent performance throughout. The musical score by Prince, which includes some of his classic '80s tunes, makes this a movie that you can watch over and over again. Too bad it's not available on DVD, like some of Spike's other movies.