The climax is so outrageous I can't believe it. The ending outdoes Inglourious Basterds because it's not even about making a statement. It's just about being crazy, which is what awesome movies should be.
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10/17/09
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Black Dynamite (2009)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:31
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: A loving and meticulous send-up of 1970s blaxsploitation movies, Black Dynamite is funny enough for the frat house and clever enough for film buffs.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Oct 16, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $131,862
Synopsis: When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to fight all the way from the... [More]
Starring: Michael Jai White, Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson, Kevin Chapman
Director: Scott Sanders
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Reviews for Black Dynamite
As a five-minute clip on YouTube, this spoof might be a small masterpiece. As a feature film, it's both too much and not nearly enough.
10/16/09
Top CriticYou'll either love it and think it's hilarious, comedic brilliance or you won't get it at all. I know which side I'm on cats. Black Dynamite's!
01/22/09
Unless you're seeing Black Dynamite with a slap-happy midnight movie crowd, the film's energy saps about halfway through and leaves you glumly anticipating the next obvious plot point.
04/25/09
Black Dynamite gets the details right, but so what? The result is like watching rightly vilified movies such as Epic Movie, Date Movie, or Meet The Spartans, but without as many scenes of characters being kicked in the balls.
11/10/09
If there's a night at the movies more fun than this deadpan blaxploitation flick, it's probably boosted by something bought in a dark alley.
10/16/09
A feisty, gleefully harebrained spoof of all things Shaft and Superfly, Dynamite is a jubilant ode to the firm cinematic pimp hand, which, in this picture, smacks bad guys around and tickles the audience with the same devotion.
11/05/09
Even if you've never seen a black exploitation film you will be thoroughly entertained by 'DY-NO-MITE! DY-NO-MITE!'
10/16/09
This may be the all-time best party film next to "Animal House." If this movie doesn't make you laugh, call a doctor.
09/26/09
The details are perfect, from the particle-board sets to the porn-ready score. (And dig those polyester suits.) But just like the movies it parodies, this one feels over long before it's actually done.
10/16/09
This is one of the cleverest, most consistently funny spoof movies since Airplane!
10/27/09
Beneath the good-natured retro silliness of Black Dynamite is something smart and new.
10/15/09
blaxploitation equivalent of the B-movies Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino cooked up for Grindhouse.
10/15/09
If you revel just a tiny bit in the 'blaxploitation' genre, then Black Dynamite is a sweet stew of shut-yo'-mouth that'll keep you loaded with glee for its apt 90 minutes.
08/11/09
A terrific satire of seventies blaxploitation classics
10/13/09
Black Dynamite scores brownie points for its brilliant, spot-on recreation of grindhouse-era ambiance.
06/09/09
If you don't ask Black Dynamite to be anything deeper an an entertaining retro diversion, you're apt to feel richly rewarded. Can you dig it, you jive-ass sucker?
10/11/09
As the theme song declares, this cat is dy-no-mite!
10/14/09
Can Black Dynamite fend off the Man and the mob and the phalanx of wah-wah guitars arrayed against him and fight his way to the Honky House to mete out kung-fu justice? Most likely!
10/16/09
A cheerfully affectionate if fit fully amusing spoof of '70s blaxpoitation movies, Scott Sanders' Black Dynamite painstakingly nails the cheesy look, music and martial arts moves of the originals.
10/16/09
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October 16, 2009:
Michael Jai White Talks Black Dynamite
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October 15, 2009:
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October 12, 2009:
Black Dynamite Prompts Big Laughs, Serious Questions
"Black Dynamite" is a tongue-in-cheek homage to '70s blaxploitation films, but it's raised some serious questions about the genre that inspired it -- what it meant then, and... More...
October 08, 2009:
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