Out of all the final destination movies....

It does have self awareness, but they play it seriously. It is possible to have both at the same time, don't forget. I mean think about it, they even had characters die in ways that fitted their stereotype for one thing.

Also, just because a character is black does not mean he was cast as the "token black", it could easily have been that he was writen as any race, and the actor happened to be black. Just because only one character is of a certain race (and he wasn't as there was Amber as well) does not make him a "token".

At one point he was going to be a Hispanic, so take it as you will.

I agree that the film does have some self awareness to itself considering there is a special feature on the DVD/Blu-Ray called "Dead Teenager Movie"

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Frankly, I don't really find most humans all that likable, so, since I prefer not to waste my horror movie-watching time picking the movies apart (or otherwise not enjoying them -- it's my time, and my money), I deliberately care anyway, at least about the characters I don't find irredeemably vile. Since most of the cast weren't all that reminiscent of the Nazi SS, the Confederate South's slave-holding plantation owners, or most 19th/early 20th-century Russian aristocrats, it wasn't really a chore -- the cast was a bunch of ordinary teenagers, and a random group of "ordinary people" will naturally tend to include idiots, jerks, and cretins, since they're the majority, taken together. Can't say I cared much for Lewis, but I didn't *not care* to the point that seeing his head get smushed wasn't a bit of a turn; the rest of them were vastly less objectionable than him (even Frankie). The end was truly horrifying; people may largely be prats, but they aren't so generally awful that they have a good, thorough puréeing coming to them.

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