Akroyd in black face...

It was funny, and didn't hurt anybody with a functioning brain.

You should see the black face scene in Don't Give a Damn (1994).

Cry some more.

No one should be offended. He was an actor playing a part. That's what they do.

The Bounce TV network it, so they must not be worried about offending their audience.

As a Jamaican, in no way Dan Akroyd did an accurate Jamaican accent. Most people do understand an authentic Jamaican accent. A good effort on his part nonetheless.

I've just watched the movie for the first time in about 1,000,000 years. I'd forgotten about the black face scene.

It is a bit jarring in 2024, but it's just a product of its time -- I think the fact that it comes in the midst of a movie with a very clear anti-racist, anti-classist message only underlines that no offence was intended. 'The past is a foreign country: they do thing differently there', and all that.

For all its date-stamped stuff, the film's heart is ultimately in the right place, I think.

Nothing about it was intended to be or, in my opinion, could be considered offensive about him in black face. If he was making fun of Jamaicans or trying to misrepresent them in some way, then I would understand being offended by the scene. However, no derogatory comments were made, and hen did it in order to trick one of the villains, so it fit within the story.

If you find Akroyd's black face offensive in this then movies like White Chicks and Tropic Thunder where the main characters are in black face/ white face for the entire movie should be extraordinarily offensive to you.