Pootie Tang

Pootie Tang works, in part, because it doesn't. Which is to say the movie's special success is inextricable from the moments where it blatantly fails. The movie exerts a beguiling charm that can only be explained as the je ne sais quoi of sa da tay.

A bona fide cult object in the making.

A pretty inspired and consistently witty satirical skewering of three decade's worth of macho black pop cultural clichs.

Mostly an amusing exercise in black vernacular, searching for a point.

It would've made a great 30-minute comic short. Most of the film is padding.

This astonishingly unfunny Paramount comedy is burdened with writing, direction and acting that would cause Ed Wood to wince.

'Pootie Tang' seems to have all the earmarks of a film that suffered from too many cooks adding their own special ingredients.

It started, and it just blew my mind...one of the worst movies of all time.

This belongs in the vault of all the worst things about America...we should be embarrassed...