Pootie Tang
Pootie is a cool-walking, smooth-talking lady's man and despite the fact that his strange style of speech is understood by only a select few, he becomes a hero and a role model to the children he protects.
1 September 1958, Livingston, New Jersey, USA
25 August 1957
16 December 1965, Plymouth, North Carolina, USA
5 August 1962, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA
27 December 1968, Manhattan, New York, USA
8 February 1938, San Rafael, California, USA
22 March 1952, Queens, New York, USA
7 March 1964, Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
22 May 1978, Newark, New Jersey, USA
18 January 1965, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
9 June 1973, Brooklyn, New York, USA
22 October 1956, New York City, New York, USA
28 October 1966, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
7 February 1965, Andrews, South Carolina, USA
23 July 1958, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
26 March 1964, The Bronx, New York, USA
18 July 1980, Huntington Woods, Michigan, USA
23 September 1988, Staten Island, New York, USA
4 October 1991, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
August 02, 2001
There are bad movies, there are disappointing movies, and then there's Pootie Tang, a movie so incompetent, it almost defies description.
July 10, 2001
A bona fide cult object in the making.
July 02, 2001
This astonishingly unfunny Paramount comedy is burdened with writing, direction and acting that would cause Ed Wood to wince.
July 11, 2001
Its humor tires not too long after the beginning credits have finished rolling.
March 29, 2004
Writer-director Louis C.K. (I wouldn't give my correct name either) was named on Entertainment Weekly's "It List," proving that entertainment is in a bad way.
November 01, 2011
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.
July 02, 2001
A pretty inspired and consistently witty satirical skewering of three decade's worth of macho black pop cultural clichés.
August 20, 2001
Pootie is such an original, utterly absurd conception that, however one may hesitate over superfluous matters of good taste or (horrors!) political correctness, anyone with an ounce of humor will find it impossible not to succumb in gales of laughter.
July 02, 2001
Good for a couple of well-earned laughs but ultimately overstays its welcome.
July 02, 2001
It would've made a great 30-minute comic short. Most of the film is padding.
July 05, 2001
It seems as if the studio thought they had a black Austin Powers, while in fact what they have is more like a black Dude, Where's My Car?.
July 02, 2001
Mostly an amusing exercise in black vernacular, searching for a point.
