Cheaply made stuff, patently stupid and, most of the time, a pure pleasure to watch.
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06/28/01
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.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Comedies
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.
Reviews for Pootie Tang
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06/12/02
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
Succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes.
06/28/01
Top CriticIts calculated crudity and sledgehammer gags offer the same ephemeral pleasures one gets when heckling a campy blaxploitation thriller.
06/29/01
A pretty inspired and consistently witty satirical skewering of three decade's worth of macho black pop cultural clichés.
07/02/01
No review available.
04/14/04
The material it does pull off is daring and sharp.
07/02/01
No review available.
03/31/05
Mostly an amusing exercise in black vernacular, searching for a point.
07/02/01
Runs out of gas (and gags) after the first 10 minutes.
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
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
The 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
It would've made a great 30-minute comic short. Most of the film is padding.
07/02/01
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