Bad movie.
Interesting issue, but bad movie.
Here, Sanaa Lathan is a successful professional woman (she is an accountant, not a corporate lawyer) and a co-worker gets her a blind date with Simon Baker.
She has a problem with him being white, but Sanaa just got a house and needs landscaping. Simon becomes her landscape architect and they begin a relationship. Blair Underwood and the white issue get in the way.
Something New basically inverts what you usually see in movies. Here, the black people are the rich (but haughty) and successful ones. In the picture below you see Sanaa and her brother, played by Donald Faison.
You could think they come off as prejudiced against white people, but I really think all their snootiness in the movie was a defense mechanism against the racism black people still face in society. They have to work twice as hard just to be equal. The movie calls that the "black tax." We can easily relate to that, don't you think? We, the gays, have a huge gay tax and we don't even have equal rights. But we'll get there...some day.
We had a tiny bit of gay content. Early in the movie, Sanaa and her lady friends are celebrating Valentine's Day and they start to look for the guys in the restaurant. It happens that the very first guy they check out is a big gay. Yay! It's just suggested that the cute guy they are looking at is gay, but it's a strong suggestion. The dude does a little snap when he sees the ladies are looking at him. The portrayal is a little stereotypical, but I thought it was neutral (remember I don't have a problem with the fairy stereotype). So I'm giving the movie a LightShed score.
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