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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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Even the idea that Fifty Shades of Grey might require parody seems ludicrous. Mar 10, 2016 | Rating: 1/5
Even the idea that Fifty Shades of Grey might require parody seems ludicrous.
Kate Muir
A spoof of the franchise that started out as Twilight fan fiction offers up another barrel for Marlon Wayans to scrape. Mar 10, 2016 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A spoof of the franchise that started out as Twilight fan fiction offers up another barrel for Marlon Wayans to scrape.
Henry Barnes
Predictable but unexpectedly enlightened. Mar 7, 2016 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Predictable but unexpectedly enlightened.
Tom Huddleston
The movie's mean-spiritedness becomes even more painful than the dippiness of the source material. Feb 4, 2016 | Full Review…
The movie's mean-spiritedness becomes even more painful than the dippiness of the source material.
J. R. Jones
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. Jan 31, 2016 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
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.
Christian Holub
As with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull's-eyes arrive only intermittently. Jan 29, 2016 | Full Review…
As with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull's-eyes arrive only intermittently.
Andy Webster
Honestly, the whole experience would fare better as a skit rather than a feature-length film Dec 3, 2017 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Honestly, the whole experience would fare better as a skit rather than a feature-length film
Robert Kojder
A horrible movie and an even worse parody, it's sad that one ends up laughing less with it than with 'Fifty shades of Grey'. [Full review in Spanish] Feb 16, 2017 | Full Review…
A horrible movie and an even worse parody, it's sad that one ends up laughing less with it than with 'Fifty shades of Grey'. [Full review in Spanish]
Mikel Zorrilla
A moment of Netflix product placement suggests the idea that this would have been better as one no-filler hour of television. Dec 31, 2016 | Full Review…
A moment of Netflix product placement suggests the idea that this would have been better as one no-filler hour of television.
Richard von Busack
The message remains, ultimately, one of female empowerment ... but here it's presented through an endless blizzard of latex genitalia, racial epithets and bodily fluids. Jun 21, 2016 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
The message remains, ultimately, one of female empowerment ... but here it's presented through an endless blizzard of latex genitalia, racial epithets and bodily fluids.
James Marsh
There are undoubtedly four or five one-liners that will have you in stitches, but given the scattergun approach to jokes, that makes for a rather minuscule percentage. Mar 23, 2016 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
There are undoubtedly four or five one-liners that will have you in stitches, but given the scattergun approach to jokes, that makes for a rather minuscule percentage.
Stefan Pape
Another depressing "cinema parody" that isn't half as amusing as the film(s) it wants us to laugh at. Mar 13, 2016 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Another depressing "cinema parody" that isn't half as amusing as the film(s) it wants us to laugh at.
Mark Kermode
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.
Super Reviewer
I'm ashamed for laughing in 2 scenes in this movie.
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.
With jokes and gags that slap you across the face harder than being on the submissive part of an S&M session, this Fifty Shades parody Black-balls spoof films back into virgin territory. In the bland tradition of Date Movie, Superhero Movie, and Meet the Spartans comes Fifty Shades of Black, a one (and a half) note send up of the one-note film spawned from E.L. James' one-note novels. Granted, taking aim at bottom-feeders allows for a ripe proving ground of comedy because these low denominators are unintentionally funny to begin with. Unfortunately, Black aims just as low as it intended victim, trying to wring easy laughs out of material that accidentally ended up to be funny in the source material. If some pointed jokes about race and sex didn't at least hit just inside the dartboard, Fifty Shades of Black wouldn't even rank one (and a half) star. In regards to skewing pop culture, Black is - simply put - whack. In this R-rated spoof, an inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship. Not much was expected of the Wayans's parodic oeuvre, mind you. With Dance Flick and Haunted House having already grabbed very low hanging fruit (think: strip mining topsoil) off of other genres rather than play it straight with clever dialogue a la Airplane! or The Naked Gun, this gratuitous exercise follows in very much the same small footsteps. The leads make the most out of cheap shots but some cameos from Fred Willard, Jane Seymour, and - wait for it - Florence Henderson make for the funniest exchanges. Bottom line: Meh in Black
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