Pootie Tang

2001 "Too cool for words."
5.3| 1h21m| PG-13| en
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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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Also starring Lance Crouther

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Konterr Brilliant and touching
Kodie Bird True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.
Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Jenni Devyn Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
akafilms This is my latest pick for worst film ever made. Congratulations to C.K. for convincing anyone to make this let alone letting him direct. Hollywood is in a sad state of confusion regarding what is funny or commercial. They have always been out of touch with minorities and this proves it. I just saw part of it and it is unwatchable. To think all these talented actors participated and embarrassed themselves with the worst acting possible. The director ultimately has to take the blame. I feel sorry for anyone who wasted $8 and 3 hours going to the movies to see this. It's a wonder that Louis CK has any career left as this would usually sink it. This gives hope to all the real filmmakers who can actually write and direct. This film gives me hope that I will succeed in creating a film worth watching, entertaining and meaningful. Even the outtakes during credits are boring.
freenachos This movie gets no respect even from it's own writers and actors! That's OK. I really like this movie. And listen, I watch movies that movie snobs/nerds would really go for: from Big Lebowski to Cool Hand Luke, back around to Chinatown, Vertigo or Superman 2. I have Netflix, people! NETFLIX!I own the DVD and have actually watched it over and over. It's very short. It's good for parties. It's super silly in a way that you would expect from Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Dave Atell and David Cross. It's just some weird, stupid take on a Blaxploitation movie. I'll admit: it MAY not be your thing, and that's AOK. But I really like this movie.
elshikh4 That was good indeed as a sarcastic little movie where the new stars of the modern American pop culture have been smartly spoofed. Still the cleverest thing they added in that subject's history was the hero's loss of language as important evidence of the degeneration between the person and person's mind; whereas language is an intermediary which the relationship between humans and their mind differs according to the level of that intermediary. So imagine a society has no relationship of that kind at all ! Now all the people is listening to the big nothing, regarding how the most of the modern culture's production is presenting nonsense (movies, songs, sitcoms ..etc). It became all about entertainment and by the most trite, inane and vacuous ways. Therefore when somebody sunk under all of that atmosphere of decadence they'll not be able to polish at least their language - as the medium which by it they can communicate with their mind - so their thinking, behaviors.. whatever will go down ! So what a world where (Pootie Tang), who's talking in hallucination sometimes or muteness other times (his singing at the radio), became the very hero, the great artist and the perfect idol ! It's a world with no brain or trying to have one !At the same year there was (Josie and the Pussycats - 2001) which confirms so nicely that the modern pop culture aims at making us stupid petty creatures with no consciousness, no thinking but to consume only. So it's not art anymore it's how to make money fast as the ruler value of that culture or should I say that fallen culture ! (Pootie Tang) just says the same in one simple adventure which was not bad at all but only small and needed some concern (the actor of the vapid star mustn't be vapid also for instance !). Though, despite some a few low points, it's a talented amusing show with an original spoof superstar and something sharp to say which bitterly is that we live the era of (Pootie Tang) and his likes, imitators, wannabes.. So down with the brain and long live the WATTATA !
Jemiah It's criminal, how underrated this movie is. It's inspired on so many levels, and the encyclopedic knowledge of action films, hip-hop videos, 70s blaxploitation and chop-socky movies is breathtaking. I always think of it in the same class as THE JERK and ZOOLANDER, with a healthy respect for flat-out absurdity and non-stop gags. The filming style is rough, and the actors generally have no polish (an undoubtedly deliberate choice), which makes the sudden flashes of precision so devastatingly funny. Wanda Sykes, in particular, is absolute gold as party girl Biggie Shorty, but the film's full of co-stars - Andy Richter, Dave Attell, Jennifer Coolidge, J.D. Williams, Missy Elliott, and Robert Vaughan - who get their turn on the silliness carousel. I can imagine someone who isn't a fan, or at least an observer, of the above things would hate this movie like poison, but for me, who has seen more Jay-Z videos than I ever wanted to see and who can't help laughing when I see a man use kung-fu to bounce bullets off his hair (a gag too complicated to explain, but seamless on screen), POOTIE TANG is fantastic.I'd recommend it more, but it's just too hard to describe!