History YMMV / TheJazzSinger

** And of course, ''Mammy'', best known today for the many parodies in the [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation cartoons]] of the time and for being a representative of a rather unfortunate vaudeville practice: [[ValuesDissonance blackface]].
* SoBadItsGood: The 1980 remake, with a script that tries to update the old-fashioned {{Melodrama}} of the original to TheEighties, and doesn't really succeed. Add to it Music/NeilDiamond, whose game but ultimately lacks the proper charisma for the lead, and a LargeHam performance by Creator/LaurenceOlivier. Thankfully, Diamond contributed some memorable songs, including three of his biggest hits: "America", "Love on the Rocks", and "Hello Again".

* CondemnedByHistory: The movie was a massive phenomenon when it came out, but now that [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny its then-revolutionary synchronized dialogue techniques have become commonplace]], it's hard to find anyone who has a good word to say about it. As [[https://www.alternateending.com/2014/04/hollywood-century-1927-in-which-we-aint-heard-nothing-yet.html Tim Brayton puts it]]:

* SoBadItsGood: The 1980 remake, with a script that tries to update the old-fashioned {{Melodrama}} of the original to TheEighties, and doesn't really succeed. Add to it Music/NeilDiamond, who's game but ultimately lacks the proper charisma for the lead, and a LargeHam performance by Creator/LaurenceOlivier. Thankfully, Diamond contributed some memorable songs, including three of his biggest hits: "America", "Love on the Rocks", and "Hello Again".

* ValuesDissonance: The {{Blackface}}. Dear lord, ''the {{Blackface}}:

* ValuesDissonance:
** Needless to say, the notorious blackface performance hasn't aged well.

** And of course, ''Mammy'', best known today for the many parodies in the [[TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation cartoons]] of the time and for being a representative of a rather unfortunate vaudeville practice: [[ValuesDissonance blackface]].

** And of course, ''Mammy'', best known today for the many parodies in the [[GoldenAgeOfAnimation cartoons]] of the time and for being a representative of a rather unfortunate vaudeville practice: [[ValuesDissonance blackface]].

* SoBadItsGood: The 1980 remake of ''The Jazz Singer'', most notable for Neil Diamond's songs, "America", "Love on the Rocks", and "Hello Again".
* ValuesDissonance: Needless to say, the notorious blackface performance hasn't aged well.

* OvershadowedByControversy: An otherwise important milestone in the history of sound in film, and the details that receive the most attention are the moments in which Jack dons the {{blackface}}. The context in which it's used -- that Jack is a Jewish performer [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope -- further invites discussion on the film's themes of race.[[note]]In his review of the film with Lady Jess, The Rap Critic, even after being forced to hold his tongue for the entirety of the movie so as to judge it on it's own merrits, outright said that he didn't care about any of the film's positives that he acknowledged, he still hated it because he doesn't believe that there's any justification for blackface.[[/note]]

* JerkassWoobie: Cantor Rabinowitz, a {{jerkass}} for how he violently rejects his son's lifestyle, and a [[TheWoobie woobie]] for having his own way of life - and years of tutoring - rejected by his son. And then he becomes terminally ill.
* OvershadowedByControversy: An otherwise important milestone in the history of sound in film, and the details that receive the most attention are the moments in which Jack dons the {{blackface}}. The context in which it's used - that Jack is a Jewish performer [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope - further invites discussion on the film's themes of race.[[note]]In his review of the film with Lady Jess, The Rap Critic, even after being forced to hold his tongue for the entirety of the movie so as to judge it on it's own merrits, outright said that he didn't care about any of the film's positives that he acknowledged, he still hated it because he doesn't believe that there's any justification for blackface.[[/note]]

* OvershadowedByControversy: An otherwise important milestone in the history of sound in film, and the details that receive the most attention are the moments in which Jack dons the {{blackface}}. The context in which it's used - that Jack is a Jewish performer [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope - further invites discussion on the film's themes of race.[[note]]In his review of the film with Lady Jess, The Rap Critic, even after being forced to hold his tongue for the entirety of the movie so as to judge it on it's own merrits, outright said that he didn't care about the technical innovations, Joleson's performance or even the justification for donning blackface because, at the end of the day, ''it's still blackface''.[[/note]]

* OvershadowedByControversy: An otherwise important milestone in the history of sound in film, and the details that receive the most attention are the moments in which Jack dons the {{blackface}}. The context in which it's used - that Jack is a Jewish performer [[InvokedTrope invoking]] this trope - further invites discussion on the film's themes of race.

* JerkassWoobie[=/=]WheelchairWoobie: Cantor Rabinowitz, a {{jerkass}} for how he violently rejects his son's lifestyle, and a [[TheWoobie woobie]] for having his own way of life - and years of tutoring - rejected by his son. And then he becomes terminally ill.

* OvershadowedByControversy:

* JerkassWoobie: Cantor Rabinowitz.

* SoBadItsGood: The 1980 remake of ''The Jazz Singer'', most notable for Neil Diamond's songs, "America", "Love on the Rocks", and "Hello Again".