Salt-N-Pepa

I love Salt-N-Pepa, but not this movie. I forced myself to commit to the two hour flop. Normally, I'm up singing and dancing with the movie. This time I was in my bed under the covers. When it ended my husband asked if I want it deleted, I said yes. Normally I save good movies and watch them again and again. The movie was choppy. The characters were not distinctive. I kept mixing up Salt and Pepa. Spinderella needed to be more prevalent in the story line. But seeing Pepa on GUHH she likes all the attention. No way she was sharing it with Spin. When I think of Salt-N-Pepa I think of all three women. When we think of RunDMC we include Jam Master Jay. When we think of Whodini I visualize Grandmaster Dee right beside them. Too bad women always have issues that leads to situations like this. Calling Spin an employee hurt me. Spinderella rapped, she danced on the videos, etc. An employee is the assistant, stage hand crew, or the back up dancers. Women need to support and uplift each other more, through the good and bad. I'm glad TLC still had sisterly love for Left Eye even during their difficult times. That's a true sisterhood. And that's why their biopic movie was good.

This interesting look into the life and times of one of the 80s good but not great hip-hop duos comes off a bit amateurish. Considering the experience level of director Mario Van Peebles, this formulaic approach was missing a professional touch. The decision to place unknown and untested actors in starring roles might save the budget, but it insures that this style of film making will stay on the Lifetime channel where there is a ton of time to fill and nor enough original product. Black women viewers deserve better. I hope Queen Latifah's acting chops keep going up because this nonepic dioes nothing for her as a producer.

Like seriously EVERYONE knows she was part of the group for decades but now all of a sudden she has 1 page maybe of dialogue the whole movie?! Do better and stop lying like she didn't have an integral position in the group.

I liked this biopic, but I did think that the girl who played Spinderella could've had more lines or something. Only thing I could think is maybe salt & pepa only based it on their lives.

Some of the movie came off choppy. There were slow points that were extremely detailed and other points that seemed rushed that left the watcher with questions. As a Salt-N-Pepa fan through their entire career, I was disappointed that they left Spinderella pretty much out of the story. It would be nice if they would have delved into the issues there since many of their fans know how much she was left out of the limelight particularly over recent years. A decent start for a biopic, but definitely could be improved upon.