Fifty Shades of Black (2016)
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Critic Consensus: Wildly erratic even for a spoof movie, Fifty Shades of Black bears the unfortunate distinction of offering fewer laughs than the unintentionally funny film it's trying to lampoon.
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Cast
as Christian Black
as Hannah
as Ron
as Jesse
as Eli
as Claire
as Gary
as Mrs. Robinson
as Elevator Business Woman
as Bride to Be
as Mrs. White
as Black's Assistant
as Joe Mills
as Bike Messenger
as Repulsed Strip Club Patron
as Charlese
as Kateesha
as Crazy Stepfather
as Big Girl
as Sick Airline Passenger
as Locksmith
as Waiter At Coffee Shop
as Mrs. Robinson's Stud
as Tailor
as Tech Guy
as Mr. White
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Critic Reviews for Fifty Shades of Black
All Critics (46) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (43) | DVD (1)
Predictable but unexpectedly enlightened.
The movie's mean-spiritedness becomes even more painful than the dippiness of the source material.
Wayans is ... incapable of limiting himself to parodying one movie at a time, tossing in riffs on Whiplash, Magic Mike, and Zero Dark Thirty to varying degrees of success.
As with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull's-eyes arrive only intermittently.
Wayans continues his pattern of creating movie simulacra - calling them "parodies" or even "spoofs" puts far too fine a point on it - whereby we're supposed to laugh because we recognize the thing that is being reenacted.
As a piece of cultural criticism, however, it painstakingly eviscerates nearly every scene in "Grey" and skewers latent sexism, classism and ludicrous sexual innuendoes, as well as the original's numerous plot holes.
Audience Reviews for Fifty Shades of Black
Fifty Shades of Black is a no-holds-barred, incredibly reverent and outrageous parody film. While mainly a spoof of Fifty Shades of Gray, there are also sketches of other recent hit films (such as Magic Mike). Marlon Wayans leads the cast and delivers a hilarious performance, and Jane Seymour is hysterical in a small supporting role. But the crudeness and vulgarity is a bit much, and some of the jokes get beat to death. It delivers a lot of laughs, but Fifty Shades of Black is unable to strike the right balance of raunch and comedy.
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I'm ashamed for laughing in 2 scenes in this movie.
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Why did I put myself through this? Fifty Shades of Black is another spoof film from Marlon Wayans (who used to be funny...I think?), this time spoofing Fifty Shades of Grey. I can safely say I did not laugh once, it was like I was dead inside whilst watching this. The gags were horrendous and the majority of them were cringeworthy. Wayans is charismatic, but it's not enough to keep me or anyone else entertained.
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