Review – Pootie Tang

Lorne Michaels should at least derive a certain amount of satisfaction from this outing, because it conclusively proves that someone besides him is able to produce really bad movies based on short sketch comedy routines. Of course Michaels is still the master, but Saturday Night Live alum Chris Rock appears to have learned a thing or two on the “art” of drawing five minutes’ worth of script out into a feature-length production. I guess if you watch a lot of blaxploitation movies this lack-witted farce seeks to parody, you might have gotten more of a kick out of it than I did. But personally, I don’t think much of the trend in Hollywood to make such movies under the pretext that they’re meant to parody such movies. Wish I’d skipped it