The material it does pull off is daring and sharp.
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07/02/01
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
Dull and unfunny claptrap.
07/02/01
As a big-screen vamp on the cable sketch, it plays itself out long before 'The End' crawls into view.
06/29/01
Top CriticNot bad so much as inexplicable. You watch in puzzlement.
06/29/01
Top CriticWorse than a below-average sketch-to-screen Saturday Night Live film.
06/28/01
[Pootie's] nonsense vocab eventually loses the power to impress.
06/28/01
As brilliant as Rock can be, this material is a reflection of his shallow, moralistic side.
06/28/01
Writer-director Louis C.K. (I wouldn't give my correct name either) was named on Entertainment Weekly's "It List," proving that entertainment is in a bad way.
03/29/04
A two-minute character-based skit ... stretched to a mind-boggling 82 minutes.
06/29/01
It would've made a great 30-minute comic short. Most of the film is padding.
07/02/01
This astonishingly unfunny Paramount comedy is burdened with writing, direction and acting that would cause Ed Wood to wince.
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
Think of an infantile, babblegabbing Shaft without any real cool.
07/02/01
Mostly it's shoddy, amateurish, and cheap-looking.
07/02/01
Funny as the joke may be, it's still only one joke.
06/29/01
Calling the movie incoherent doesn't even begin to describe it.
06/29/01
A bona fide cult object in the making.
07/10/01
Cheaply made stuff, patently stupid and, most of the time, a pure pleasure to watch.
06/28/01
Akin 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
Succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes.
06/28/01
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