Sci-Fi/Comedy racial commentary

“They Cloned Tyrone” Is a Comedy Wrapped In an Enigma Within Racial Inequity Commentary

Moonlair360 and I highly recommend this movie

Teyonah Parris as Yo-Yo, Jamie Foxx as Slick Charles and John Boyega as Fontaine in They Cloned Tyrone. Publicity photo from Netflix and NPR

My son and I watched “They Cloned Tyrone” together. He’s half-Black and 30 — a budding filmmaker and a social media influencer. I’m white, a therapist, and over twice his age. We both thought it was one of the best movies we’ve seen.

It defies genre — listed on IMBD as a comedy, thriller, mystery, and Sci-Fi. It’s certainly all of those.

The movie also defies demographic appeal, as witnessed by the fact that both my son and I enjoyed all its twists, turns, and elevator rides down to mysterious labs.

Starring John Boyega of Star Wars fame, Teyonah Parris — star of the film Dear White People, and Jamie Foxx — star of anything and everything he chooses to be in. They are spellbinding separately, and as unlikely champions in a mystery-solving group.

“They Cloned Tyrone” presents as a comedy at first glance. The writing is fast, witty, meta, and many-layered. The kind of dialogue you hear, laugh at, and then say— “Oh wow, did you hear that? Do you know what it references?” Or maybe that’s just me and my son, as we connected all the historical…