it difficult to write a plot description for a movie like the monkey hustle . on it surface and it would seem to be the story of a diverse group of people band together to stop a propose freeway from destroy their community . but the movie be just as much about a cheap and small time hood name daddy foxx ( yaphat kotto ) and the boy he train in hustle . then again and the monkey hustle be about the relationship of two young people and what they go through to be together . or be the movie really about a flamboyant would be gangster name goldie ( rudy ray moore ) maintain his control over a community through force . actually and the monkey hustle plot be a mish mash of idea that and unfortunately and never seem to hit their mark . it suppose to be a comedy and but i can only think of a couple of instance that i find remotely amuse . and even though the monkey hustle get lump in with the blaxploitation movie of the period and it lack the sex and violence and and emotional charge necessary to be consider a such . what do it say about a movie when the most generous adjective i can come up with to describe it be watchable . do you ever watch a movie and feel like a reel or two be miss . that how i felt after watch this movie . a big part of the plot be that daddy foxx have something on godlie . likewise and they both seem to have something on the alderman . infuriatingly and the movie never spell out or even hint at what the character have on each other . in the film finale and we see daddy foxx and goldie wink knowingly at each but why . it just doesn not make any sense . i feel like i feel asleep and miss crucial plot point . i normally do not get into the message or meaning of the movie i watch and but with the monkey hustle and i feel almost compel to at least mention the mixed message it send out . why be daddy foxx and goldie make out to be the hero . they do not do much of anything of value for the community . and neither man have any moral issue when it come to steal from their neighbor and thereby help to maintain the status quo of poverty . it a shame that the one educate black man in the community who be responsible for organize the save the community block party isn not give any of the credit . instead and it the hustler and the number runner who come out look good a the real hero be shove into the background .