Runs out of gas (and gags) after the first 10 minutes.
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07/02/01
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Pootie Tang (2001)
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Reviews Counted:41
Fresh:11
Rotten:30
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Based as it is on a short skit, Pootie Tang overstays its welcome.
Theatrical Release:Jun 29, 2001 Wide
Box Office: $2,839,456
Synopsis: Pootie Tang is one cat who’s definitely too cool for words! Adapted from a comedy sketch on HBO’s “The Chris Rock Show,” Pootie Tang is the ultimate super hero. A cool-walking, smooth-talking... [More]
Starring: Chris Rock, Lance Crouther, David Cross, Andy Richter
Director: Louis C. K.
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07/05/01
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03/24/02
I would rather watch all the Pokemon movies, back to back, than waste my time watching this production for a second time.
07/02/01
Cheaply made stuff, patently stupid and, most of the time, a pure pleasure to watch.
06/28/01
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06/12/02
Think of an infantile, babblegabbing Shaft without any real cool.
07/02/01
There are bad movies, there are disappointing movies, and then there's Pootie Tang, a movie so incompetent, it almost defies description.
08/02/01
The rule is pretty simple: The thinner the skit, the thinner the big-screen spin-off.
07/02/01
Top CriticThe movie's comic powers are often marred by silliness and stereotypes.
06/29/01
Calling the movie incoherent doesn't even begin to describe it.
06/29/01
[Pootie's] nonsense vocab eventually loses the power to impress.
06/28/01
Pootie is such an original, utterly absurd conception that, however one may hesitate over superfluous matters of good taste or (horrors!) political correctness, anyone with an ounce of humor will find it impossible not to succumb in gales of laughter.
08/20/01
A bona fide cult object in the making.
07/10/01
Top CriticSucceeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes.
06/28/01
Top CriticIt would've made a great 30-minute comic short. Most of the film is padding.
07/02/01
Top CriticExcruciatingly unfunny...an astonishingly awful movie.
06/30/01
Its calculated crudity and sledgehammer gags offer the same ephemeral pleasures one gets when heckling a campy blaxploitation thriller.
06/29/01
Top CriticA pretty inspired and consistently witty satirical skewering of three decade's worth of macho black pop cultural clichés.
07/02/01
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