- Release Date: 2001
- Runtime: 70 min
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Musical
- Starring: Lance Crouther, J.B. Smoove, Jennifer Coolidge, Reg E. Cathey ... see all
- Director: Louis C.K.
- Plot: 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... Read more
User Reviews
complete waste of time!
May 30, 2008
themohels - imdb.com
May 30, 2008themohels - imdb.com
I was forced to watch this piece of steaming #### while visiting a friend. He and the other guests thought this movie was the funniest movie the have ever seen. I sat through this trite excuse for a film and while... Full review
DAMN!
Mar 11, 2008
Iuju - yahoo.com
Mar 11, 2008Iuju - yahoo.com
This is the worst thing I have ever witnessed on any screen. Avoid at all costs. Love Chris Rock hate this movie.... Full review
Capatown!
Oct 09, 2007
asyadt21 - yahoo.com
Oct 09, 2007asyadt21 - yahoo.com
Greatest Movie Ever! Calling Pootie Tang just a movie does not do it justice this masterpiece puts all other movies ever made to shame. I could watch this movie once a day for the rest of my life and Id still... Full review
You Can't Polish A Turd
Sep 08, 2007
qcriticman - yahoo.com
Sep 08, 2007qcriticman - yahoo.com
I enjoy the Chris Rock show but Pootie is his most unfunny skit and to make a feature length movie about this moron is an insult.It's already unfunny in 5 minute spurts now in 81 minutes is it gonna be any... Full review
Outstanding
Aug 12, 2007
abizzell80 - yahoo.com
Aug 12, 2007abizzell80 - yahoo.com
The first time I ever saw Pootie Tang I loved It!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wanted to by the movie but could never find it. Now that I have found it I will buy it now and nver miss the opprotunity to get it this... Full review
Terrible
Jul 27, 2007
johndimensionsbyjohnclarkcom - yahoo.com
Jul 27, 2007johndimensionsbyjohnclarkcom - yahoo.com
This is the worst movie ive ever seen. It has no point just alot of overly suggestive content. There is no point to this movie and it is not funny. What s so funny about a guy who goes around and... Full review
Ridiculous but hilarous
Nov 22, 2006
nema1982 - yahoo.com
Nov 22, 2006nema1982 - yahoo.com
I must admit I have big red blood shot eyes when I watch this movie, but honestly I still find it hilarious. Just the character names, Biggie Shorty and Dirty Dee, they are so silly that you can't help but laugh.... Full review
All time worst movie
Aug 13, 2006
johnnyg2882 - yahoo.com
Aug 13, 2006johnnyg2882 - yahoo.com
This movie sucked so bad! I watched it and couldn't make it through the first half hour. I'd rather watch two street bums fighting in a corner for a quarter. I'd rather watch myself puke from illness that witness this movie... Full review
Worse Than Bill Cosby's Worst Movie
Mar 18, 2006
wunzntooz - yahoo.com
Mar 18, 2006wunzntooz - yahoo.com
Which would be Leonard Part Six! This unintelligable crap has to be the cheapest and crappiest film ever put together and mass diistributed. Pootie is an inconprehensible moron and the plot is stupid and childish and this film did not make... Full review
One of my favorite movies
Jan 15, 2006
right_n_exact77 - yahoo.com
Jan 15, 2006right_n_exact77 - yahoo.com
No matter what people say this movie was funny as heck. I bet the same people who dogged this film liked Austin Powers (they're about the same type of movie) Also i bet nobody realized the message behind it.....dont sell out... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Jun 25, 2007thephoenix.com
And the 2001 blaxploitation satire Pootie Tang , his best-known film, was inspired by a character he developed for Rock.
In 1999, he won an Emmy for his Chris Rock work.
... Full Review
| Jun 29, 2001Deseret News
Calling the movie incoherent doesn't even begin to describe it.
And chicks dig his style; he usually goes shirtless in a fur coat with leather pants, and he always wears gold-tinted sunglasses and the magical belt his father (Rock in one of many supporting roles) gave him as a child, which he uses as a whip to beat his enemies.
... Full Review
filmcritic.com
Pootie Tang stinks as badly as possible.
Here's the painful setup: We first learn that the entire movie we are about to watch is actually a movie clip playing on a talk show featuring an immensely popular celebrity named, you guessed it, Pootie Tang (Lance Crouther).
... Full Review
Reel.com
However, not knowing when to quit isn't Pootie Tang's primary flaw the cavernous hole where the star should be is.
This is nothing short of blasphemy.
... Full Review
PopMatters
have the chops to turn a funny sketch into a funny movie.....in part because it boldly features Pootie Tang, a black superhero/pop star who speaks a wacked-out ebonics all his own..... ... Full Review
News
Scenes We Love: Pootie Tang
cinematical.com –
2009-09-23
Pootie Tang and Me
associatedcontent.com –
2009-06-24
Last night while rewatching the Bing commercial mentioned in my last article, I noticed something that I hadn't before. There is one woman who was vaguely familiar in that commercial, but just like Jane Adams and Matthew Porretta, it took... ... Full Article
Rock Finds 'Love' With French Remake
courant.com –
2006-02-22
Chris Rock LOS ANGELES - If this doesn't stir up some queasiness amongst cinephiles, nothing will: The creative powers behind "Pootie Tang" are set to make a remake of Eric Rohmer 's 1972 "Chloe in the Afternoon." According to The ... Full Article
Raise the Spoof
villagevoice.com –
2001-07-10
Poised somewhere between blaxploitation spoof and avant-garde freak-out, Pootie Tang qualifies as the weirdest, funniest studio release of the summer so far and a bona fide cult object in the making. ... Full Article
Shamelessness has finally paid off for Louis C.K. After two decades in the air-conditioned trenches of TV and scriptwriting (Chris Rock, David Letterman), and directing movies ( Pootie Tang ), the Newton-raised comedian has found an audience to embrace his... ... Full Article
He tells website Echoonline.Com, "We keep talking about it.I don't know, man.You've got to start a club.Get some people to sign a petition. ... Full Article

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