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.
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Pootie Tang
Overview
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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Top critics, in their words
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 cliches.
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.
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