Good for a couple of well-earned laughs but ultimately overstays its welcome.
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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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Reviews for Pootie Tang
A pretty inspired and consistently witty satirical skewering of three decade's worth of macho black pop cultural clichés.
07/02/01
Top CriticA spectacular train wreck of a film where the participants seem oblivious to the dreck they've crafted and performed in.
07/02/01
Mostly an amusing exercise in black vernacular, searching for a point.
07/02/01
Top CriticSorry, Lance, but Rudy Ray Moore you ain't.
07/02/01
It would've made a great 30-minute comic short. Most of the film is padding.
07/02/01
Top CriticThis astonishingly unfunny Paramount comedy is burdened with writing, direction and acting that would cause Ed Wood to wince.
07/02/01
Top CriticThe rule is pretty simple: The thinner the skit, the thinner the big-screen spin-off.
07/02/01
Top CriticMostly it's shoddy, amateurish, and cheap-looking.
07/02/01
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
The material it does pull off is daring and sharp.
07/02/01
Top CriticDull and unfunny claptrap.
07/02/01
Think of an infantile, babblegabbing Shaft without any real cool.
07/02/01
Runs out of gas (and gags) after the first 10 minutes.
07/02/01
It's content to stay at the level of puerile humor.
07/02/01
Excruciatingly unfunny...an astonishingly awful movie.
06/30/01
A two-minute character-based skit ... stretched to a mind-boggling 82 minutes.
06/29/01
Its calculated crudity and sledgehammer gags offer the same ephemeral pleasures one gets when heckling a campy blaxploitation thriller.
06/29/01
Top CriticAkin to watching a random collection of deleted scenes from a misconceived movie that should never have darkened the inside of a theater in the first place.
06/29/01
Top CriticAs a big-screen vamp on the cable sketch, it plays itself out long before 'The End' crawls into view.
06/29/01
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