Coonskin is a 1975 American live-action/animated satirical crime film written and directed by Ralph Bakshi. The film references the Uncle Remus folk tales, and satirizes the blaxploitation film genre as well as Disney’s racially controversial film Song of the South, adapted from the Uncle Remus folk tales. The film’s narrative concerns three anthropomorphic Uncle Remus characters, Br’er Rabbit, referred to as Brother Rabbit, Br’er Fox, referred to as Preacher Fox, and Br’er Bear, referred to as Brother Bear. They rise to the top of the organized crime racket in Harlem, encountering corrupt law enforcement, con artists, and the Mafia, in a satire of both racism within the Hollywood film system, and America itself. The film stars Philip Thomas, Charles Gordone, Barry White, and Scatman Crothers, all of whom appear in both live-action and animated sequences.

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    Oh boy. Here we go. Probably everyone should read the Wikipedia page before watching this, eh.

    Richard Eder of The New York Times wrote, “[Coonskin] could be his masterpiece […] a shattering successful effort to use an uncommon form—cartoons and live action combined—to convey the hallucinatory violence and frustration of American city life, specifically black city life […] lyrically violent, yet in no way [does it] exploit violence.” Variety called the film a "brutal satire from the streets.

    Not for all tastes […] not avant-garde. […] The target audience is youth who read comics in the undergrounds."