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Pootie Tang (2001)

June. 29,2001
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5.3
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PG-13
| Action Comedy
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Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young black children of America, supatime.

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Exoticalot
2001/06/29

People are voting emotionally.

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Voxitype
2001/06/30

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Roman Sampson
2001/07/01

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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Jonah Abbott
2001/07/02

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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badheadcontent
2001/07/03

Is put Space Jam and this in a canon and shoot em into the sun

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zetes
2001/07/04

This movie, based on sketches written for the Chris Rock Show, flopped back in the summer of 2001. Since then, it's garnered a bit of a cult following. I had to check it out, as I've become a little obsessed with comedian Louis C.K. lately. He was a writer for the Chris Rock Show at the time, for which he won an Emmy, and he wrote and directed this film. Nowadays, C.K. directs and writes (and edits, too, I think) his own show for the FX network, and it's easily one of the best things on television. Unfortunately, his talent does not at all shine through in Pootie Tang, and I honestly have no idea how anyone could find this movie funny. Really, it's a disaster. It's so bizarre that it is somewhat watchable, like a train derailment, but funny is something it absolutely is not. Lance Crouther stars as Pootie Tang, a folk hero of sorts who speaks in gibberish but is world famous for his movies, his music and his general heroism (he often gets in fights with drug dealers who end up in prison). The thing is, this character completely lacks charisma. He sounds like a rip-off of Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat character from SNL, but not even close to as amusing. Chris Rock co-stars in multiple roles (Pootie Tang's father and a member of his crew). Wanda Sykes is the most tolerable thing in the movie. I liked her dancing, at least. The plot reminds me of another lame 2001 comedy, Zoolander, but at least that one had a couple of laughs in it.

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Vacuus
2001/07/05

I usually love comedies which gets bashed by the reviewers but this time I agree with them. This movie was so bad that it even wasn't funny to laugh at how lousy it is. I didn't pay for it but I still regret that I saw it because I wasted time on crap.In 1993 Chris Rock did a movie called CB4 which also was about superstars rise and fall. That movie was pure genius. But this movie had a script which even a 10 year old kid could do better. There was some characters which were lovable but a disadvantage was that the main character didn't have any charm at all. I didn't have any feelings for him. He wasn't funny, interesting or likable. The jokes in this movie was all the same over and over again which just was annoying.I think Chris Rock is a hilarious comedian and I even love his movies which flopped but this one... it sure was crap.

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eeax2
2001/07/06

Louis C.K conceived of the story which would become Pootie Tang on Long Island, where man, in the person of a crew of Dutch sailors, was placed "face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." That was in the spring of 1924. He wrote most of it, though, in a villa above St. Raphaël on the Riviera, with Roman and Romanesque aqueducts within sight, and beneath a skyline that reminded him of Shelley's Eugenean Hills. There was a beach where he swam daily, and came to know a group of young French naval aviators. Otherwise, he worked steadily at what he jokingly spoke of to friends as "a script better than any script written in America." By late October the script was ready to be mailed to Maxwell Perkins, his editor at Scribner's.He knew very well that Pootie Tang was far finer than anything he had attempted before. In April, on the eve of his departure for Europe, he told his limo driver "I cannot let it go out unless it has the very best I am capable of in it or even as I feel sometimes, something better than I am capable of." He would not be alone in that feeling; many would say that the novel possessed the "Fitzgerald" glamor, but also "a kind of mystic atmosphere at times." They may have been remembering C.K's words in that April letter: "So in my new script I'm thrown directly on purely creative work—not trashy imaginings as in my stories but the sustained imagination of a sincere yet radiant world."

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