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Pootie Tang

Pootie Tang

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hilarious, lighthearted blaxsploitation spoof
Review: I was expecting a crude, low-brow film in the vein of Scary Movie 2. What I got was a fun, silly and faced-paced spoof of blaxsploitation flicks that is even better than the Wayans' "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka."

Looking like a younger, scrawnier Billy Dee Williams, Lance Crouther excells as Pootie Tang, an urban, crime-fighting dude who does PSAs telling kids not to eat fast food or drink malt liquor. Chris Rock also co-stars as a neighborhood pal of Pootie, and the other characters in this film are funny stereotypes cut from central casting.

The film editing and camera work combines the zaniness of Laugh-In with 70s cop shows, and the soundtrack is fantastic. This movie has no redeeming social value and will never win any awards. However, I laughed out loud and giggled many times at its childlike silliness and fun atmosphere. It's a funny, funny flick for teenagers and adults.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This movie should have been huge!
Review: Outstanding! One of the best comedies of the year, if not ever! While it is slap stick humor, it is very well done and intelligent. I cannot recommend it enough! This movie should have been a major hit. It is destined to be a cult classic.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AMAZING
Review: i saw this movie twice in the theater and have rented it and watched it twice in a row. its so amazing. the thing that i would have to say to help you out is that people that don't think they will like it will love it and that people that think its going to be good, it will be over their heads. this movie is so good it makes me hurt.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: You Got To Be Kidding
Review: This was easily one of the worst, if not THE worst film of the past year. Complete, incoherent nonsense. It has no comedy value whatsoever. Everybody in the movie would be wise to get a new agent. It tanked big time at the box office and deservedly so. One of the all time worst.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Worth a look, so Wa-Da-Ta on the Na-Ga Day!!!!!!!
Review: I had reservations about this movie, but I'll have to say, it was pretty funny. I can't remember a movie quite like this one since I saw "I'm Gonna Git you Sucka." Pootie Tang reminds me a lot of that movie. I thought this was a pretty funny movie, you just have to know how to approach it going in I guess.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Saba Tay on the Tippie Ti.
Review: This movie came and went in theaters so fast I didn't get a chance to see it, but I rented it because Pootie Tang was always funny on the Chris Rock show, and I consider Chris Rock one of the funniest men in America. Pootie Tang is a rapper who speaks some sort of very extreme rap lingo, to the point where you cannot understand a word he says. Meanwhile, everyone else always understands him (kind of like Chewbacca, somehow the other characters can interpret what he says perfectly) though once in a while they'll say, "What the hell you talkin about?"

The plot isn't complex, Pootie fights bad guys (like drug dealers) with his magic belt, sings songs that somehow people can understand, and the ladies love him. Chris Rock plays his father, one of his friends, a DJ, and probably some other character I'm forgetting. Meanwhile The Man wants to brainwash Pootie into endorsing their horrible product, and (surprise surprise) he loses his magic belt, and goes on a mission to get it back. Wanda Sykes is great as...uh...I forget her name, but she narrates the story and helps Pootie, plus she wears a different cool-... wig in every scene. I wasn't rolling on the floor laughing, but the movie was funny and entertaining It starts out with Bob Costas interviewing him and saying he's gonna show a clip from his movie, 80 minutes go by, maybe even less (the end credits seemed to go on for 10 minutes) . The opening, with him fighting Dolemite-type bad guys, is hilarious. I also was impressed that the movie didn't rely on gross-out humor and wasn't violent-I don't think anyone got killed- and has a positive message that makes it a good family movie. I think it was "Do right, fight what's wrong, but the important thing is to love the world while you're doing it ." And what's wrong with that?

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: the worst
Review: hey i saw this movie in the dollar theatre, and you know what? that dollar would have been alot better spent on a cup of coffee.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Ohhhhh pooooooty TAAAAANGGG!!!!
Review: Pootie Tang!! What can I say about this movie? Well, it's funny. I didn't think it would be. But it was. I especially like Chris Rock as the corn. Don't know what I'm talking about? Then I suggest you watch this movie. ;) Man I gotta get me a phat belt like Pootie's...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: This movie is horrible!!
Review: I would have to say that this is the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Worse than Supernova or Lost Souls, this movie's lack of a real plot is dead weight to this movie. The pie scene was the worst and aside from Chris Rock's friend that always repeated what he said, this movie couldn't warrant a chuckle. You keep watching hoping that it forms some kind reason to watch or say it wasn't bad, but it never happens.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Alright...
Review: There are very few movies I have seen in my lifetime that have made me laugh hard. I'm talking about genuinely funny movies that only intelligent people get. Orgazmo was one of those movies. The Princess Bride was also one of those movies.

Pootie Tang is one of those movies. (...) I can't get through a day without watching it at least once, now.

I can't explain the ingenuity coursing all throughout this film. "Pootie Tang grew up in a small town outside of Gary, Illinois. That town was... CHICAGO!" Little things like that, and big things like Pootie's pseudo-sentence-fragments. The soundtrack fits so perfectly with the movie. I think they should've used that Dirty Dee song more. Pootie's song, which was just silence, and the father busting in to tell his son to "turn that noise down NOW!" The western-style sequence where they basically use stop-motion to place Pootie and Dirty Dee closer and closer to one another until they're touching and then they've suddenly passed through one another. The belt Pootie's father bought at Piggly-Wiggly for 59 cents. Daddy Tang being the third person mauled by a gorilla at the steel mill. "It's tough out there, Pootie. You got drugs... crime... gorillas..." No attempt to make the monkey look real.

Bob Costas, Robert Vaughn, and the hilarious Dave Attel all lend their hands to the hilarity. I can't even list everything that's great about it because I'd have to put the entire script down. See it,(...)


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