Fifty Shades of Black

Another depressing "cinema parody" that isn't half as amusing as the film(s) it wants us to laugh at.

50 Shades of Black does, at least, have to good grace to be 50 times more entertaining than the original.

Even the idea that Fifty Shades of Grey might require parody seems ludicrous.

A spoof of the franchise that started out as Twilight fan fiction offers up another barrel for Marlon Wayans to scrape.

Predictable but unexpectedly enlightened.

The movie's mean-spiritedness becomes even more painful than the dippiness of the source material.

Honestly, the whole experience would fare better as a skit rather than a feature-length film

A horrible movie and an even worse parody, it's sad that one ends up laughing less with it than with 'Fifty shades of Grey'. [Full review in Spanish]

A moment of Netflix product placement suggests the idea that this would have been better as one no-filler hour of television.

The message remains, ultimately, one of female empowerment ... but here it's presented through an endless blizzard of latex genitalia, racial epithets and bodily fluids.