Pootie Tang
Starring:Chris Rock, Wanda Sykes
Studio: Paramount
Product Type: DVD
Editorial Review:
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Pootie Tang pushes blaxploitation to the point of surrealism. The title character--who first appeared on The Chris Rock Show--speaks a kind of slang on steroids, an incomprehensible stream of nonsense syllables that nonetheless makes him irresistible to women and a threat to evildoers everywhere. Pootie is part movie star, part superhero, righting wrongs with the slap of his daddy's belt. But when an evil corporation uses a super-ho named Ireenie (Jennifer Coolidge from Best in Show and Legally Blonde) to steal this magic belt, Pootie must find himself again. In the title role, Lance Crouther glides through the movie like Isaac Hayes's skinny younger brother, while Chris Rock lends his trademark bark to multiple roles, including Pootie's father. Crazed editing and a great soundtrack give Pootie Tang a little extra oomph. A bizarre comedy, likely to develop a cult following. Cameos by Missy Elliot and Bob Costas. --Bret Fetzer
Average customer rating:
- It's no Napoleon Dynamite but it's still a great Indie!
- Existential surrealistic tongue in cheek zany flick. Long live Pooty and his magic belt!
- Pootie Tang Is Evidence That God Hates Us
- Funny!
- Sa da tay! Pootie Tang is O-Kay
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Pootie Tang
Starring: Reg E. Cathey , Lance Crouther , Chris Rock , Robert Vaughn , and Jennifer Coolidge
Director: Louis C.K.
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Release Date: 2001-11-27 |
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Pootie Tang pushes blaxploitation to the point of surrealism. The title character--who first appeared on The Chris Rock Show--speaks a kind of slang on steroids, an incomprehensible stream of nonsense syllables that nonetheless makes him irresistible to women and a threat to evildoers everywhere. Pootie is part movie star, part superhero, righting wrongs with the slap of his daddy's belt. But when an evil corporation uses a super-ho named Ireenie (Jennifer Coolidge from Best in Show and Legally Blonde) to steal this magic belt, Pootie must find himself again. In the title role, Lance Crouther glides through the movie like Isaac Hayes's skinny younger brother, while Chris Rock lends his trademark bark to multiple roles, including Pootie's father. Crazed editing and a great soundtrack give Pootie Tang a little extra oomph. A bizarre comedy, likely to develop a cult following. Cameos by Missy Elliot and Bob Costas. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
It's no Napoleon Dynamite but it's still a great Indie!.......2007-03-09
I liked this film quite alot even though it's way to short with a running time of approx 72 min. Hardly a feature film if you ask me but then again it was only 6 bucks when I bought it so I can't complain too much. All in all the movie is very funny and highly inventive. This is one unique movie with a zanny hip hop comedic take on superheros.
Existential surrealistic tongue in cheek zany flick. Long live Pooty and his magic belt!.......2007-02-21
A pretty bizarre movie, but one of our family's favorites. It was so much fun watching this with my conservative ethnocentric brother. For fun, check out Roger Ebert's review: "It is not so much bad, as it is inexplicable."
Inexplicable, yes, bad, no! (IMO)
Pootie Tang Is Evidence That God Hates Us.......2007-02-03
Where can one truly begin when discussing Pootie Tang? Movies such as this, I believe, are best when viewed as monumental moments of religious inspiration. You see, this movie could only have been spawned by God; and not just any God either, but a God who is hellbent upon punishing we poor sinners for our past discresions. When you view Pootie Tang, you are in fact, experiencing the Lord's wrath personally, in your own living room. When viewed in such a light this movie is awesome and the best expression of the sublime in modern society.
My best friend and I rented Pootie Tang several years back; we had heard many things about it. The universal opinion seems to have been that it was so god awfully wretched that we had to view it ourselves; nothing, we thought, could be as bad as everyone was making it out to be. We were wrong; terribly, terribly wrong.
This movie is so unfunny that I have been lead to conclude that the author was attempting this feat! One can tell where the jokes are supposed to be and where we are supposed to laugh, but its like looking at pictures of a dry riverbed; you can tell that water is supposed to flow through it, but you also can not help but notice that there is none there now.
I can't even really begin to put into words how much of a surreal train wreck this is. Its something which, unfortunately, has to be seen to be believed.
Funny!.......2006-11-16
If you like movies that are so stupid that they are actually funny, this is for you!
Sa da tay! Pootie Tang is O-Kay.......2006-09-26
"Pootie Tang" is the ultimate guilty pleasure film. Sometimes I ask myself, "Why do I laugh at this?" I don't know why, but it's crazy. Chris Rock has done well on this movie. I don't know how you come up with a story about a funny talking super hero. Throughout the whole movie, this guy is saying a thing that doesn't make any sense, but the characters surrounding him all understand. How do you come up something like that?!? And put it into a feature film!!! One liners like "sa da tay" and "sine your pity on the runny kine", are classics.
Forget the fact that the movie is silly and extremely basic in plot, the story of this modern-day inner-city African-American untouchable super hero is funny, and on a elementary level, it even gets some socio-political digs in too. The movie is only 70 minutes long, but it manages to take shots at corporate America, some black stereotypes, and society's habit of unrestrained hero worship. I was tempted to label the movie "dumb", but given these little angles, it's obvious that there was some cleverness at work behind the scenes.
"Pootie Tang" was conceived on the HBO hit The Chris Rock Show, in this spin off movie, Pootie is trying to take all the junk food, drugs and alcohol off the street that is being distributed by Dick Lecter (Robert Vaughn). The supporting cast includes The Chris Rock Show regular Wanda Sykes. Missy Elliot also does a cameo in this as well.
"Pootie Tang" seems like a send up to 70's blaxpoitation films, but at the same time, I don't know what it is. "Pootie Tang" is a mixed bag of funk music, cheesy action and comedy. It all works for "Pootie Tang" making it the most unusual film ever made. If the idea of a character that combines the talents of Buckwheat, Austin Powers, and Shaft appeals to you, then you will find something to like about "Pootie Tang".
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The Chris Rock Triple Feature (Down To Earth, Head of State, Pootie Tang)
Starring: Chris Rock
Manufacturer: Paramount
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ASIN: B000O59A20
Release Date: 2007-06-19 |
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Average customer rating:
- It's no Napoleon Dynamite but it's still a great Indie!
- Existential surrealistic tongue in cheek zany flick. Long live Pooty and his magic belt!
- Pootie Tang Is Evidence That God Hates Us
- Funny!
- Sa da tay! Pootie Tang is O-Kay
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Pootie Tang [Region 2]
Starring: Lance Crouther , J.B. Smoove , Jennifer Coolidge , Reg E. Cathey , and Robert Vaughn
Director: Louis C.K.
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ASIN: B00007854L |
Amazon.com
Pootie Tang pushes blaxploitation to the point of surrealism. The title character--who first appeared on The Chris Rock Show--speaks a kind of slang on steroids, an incomprehensible stream of nonsense syllables that nonetheless makes him irresistible to women and a threat to evildoers everywhere. Pootie is part movie star, part superhero, righting wrongs with the slap of his daddy's belt. But when an evil corporation uses a super-ho named Ireenie (Jennifer Coolidge from Best in Show and Legally Blonde) to steal this magic belt, Pootie must find himself again. In the title role, Lance Crouther glides through the movie like Isaac Hayes's skinny younger brother, while Chris Rock lends his trademark bark to multiple roles, including Pootie's father. Crazed editing and a great soundtrack give Pootie Tang a little extra oomph. A bizarre comedy, likely to develop a cult following. Cameos by Missy Elliot and Bob Costas. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews:
It's no Napoleon Dynamite but it's still a great Indie!.......2007-03-09
I liked this film quite alot even though it's way to short with a running time of approx 72 min. Hardly a feature film if you ask me but then again it was only 6 bucks when I bought it so I can't complain too much. All in all the movie is very funny and highly inventive. This is one unique movie with a zanny hip hop comedic take on superheros.
Existential surrealistic tongue in cheek zany flick. Long live Pooty and his magic belt!.......2007-02-21
A pretty bizarre movie, but one of our family's favorites. It was so much fun watching this with my conservative ethnocentric brother. For fun, check out Roger Ebert's review: "It is not so much bad, as it is inexplicable."
Inexplicable, yes, bad, no! (IMO)
Pootie Tang Is Evidence That God Hates Us.......2007-02-03
Where can one truly begin when discussing Pootie Tang? Movies such as this, I believe, are best when viewed as monumental moments of religious inspiration. You see, this movie could only have been spawned by God; and not just any God either, but a God who is hellbent upon punishing we poor sinners for our past discresions. When you view Pootie Tang, you are in fact, experiencing the Lord's wrath personally, in your own living room. When viewed in such a light this movie is awesome and the best expression of the sublime in modern society.
My best friend and I rented Pootie Tang several years back; we had heard many things about it. The universal opinion seems to have been that it was so god awfully wretched that we had to view it ourselves; nothing, we thought, could be as bad as everyone was making it out to be. We were wrong; terribly, terribly wrong.
This movie is so unfunny that I have been lead to conclude that the author was attempting this feat! One can tell where the jokes are supposed to be and where we are supposed to laugh, but its like looking at pictures of a dry riverbed; you can tell that water is supposed to flow through it, but you also can not help but notice that there is none there now.
I can't even really begin to put into words how much of a surreal train wreck this is. Its something which, unfortunately, has to be seen to be believed.
Funny!.......2006-11-16
If you like movies that are so stupid that they are actually funny, this is for you!
Sa da tay! Pootie Tang is O-Kay.......2006-09-26
"Pootie Tang" is the ultimate guilty pleasure film. Sometimes I ask myself, "Why do I laugh at this?" I don't know why, but it's crazy. Chris Rock has done well on this movie. I don't know how you come up with a story about a funny talking super hero. Throughout the whole movie, this guy is saying a thing that doesn't make any sense, but the characters surrounding him all understand. How do you come up something like that?!? And put it into a feature film!!! One liners like "sa da tay" and "sine your pity on the runny kine", are classics.
Forget the fact that the movie is silly and extremely basic in plot, the story of this modern-day inner-city African-American untouchable super hero is funny, and on a elementary level, it even gets some socio-political digs in too. The movie is only 70 minutes long, but it manages to take shots at corporate America, some black stereotypes, and society's habit of unrestrained hero worship. I was tempted to label the movie "dumb", but given these little angles, it's obvious that there was some cleverness at work behind the scenes.
"Pootie Tang" was conceived on the HBO hit The Chris Rock Show, in this spin off movie, Pootie is trying to take all the junk food, drugs and alcohol off the street that is being distributed by Dick Lecter (Robert Vaughn). The supporting cast includes The Chris Rock Show regular Wanda Sykes. Missy Elliot also does a cameo in this as well.
"Pootie Tang" seems like a send up to 70's blaxpoitation films, but at the same time, I don't know what it is. "Pootie Tang" is a mixed bag of funk music, cheesy action and comedy. It all works for "Pootie Tang" making it the most unusual film ever made. If the idea of a character that combines the talents of Buckwheat, Austin Powers, and Shaft appeals to you, then you will find something to like about "Pootie Tang".
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