Pootie Tang
Tags: cult, blaxploitation

Plot synopsis:
Pootie Tang, born in "a small town outside Gary, Indiana", is portrayed as a ladies' man who is "too cool for words", even as a young child. His life is marked by the deaths of his mother "Momma Dee", and shortly thereafter his father "Daddy Tang", who dies after being mauled by a gorilla during his shift at the steel mill (the third time someone had suffered that particular fate). Just before Daddy Tang's death, Pootie inherits his father's belt and is told that (as long as he has right on his side) he can "whoop anyone's ass with just that belt."
As a young adult, Pootie Tang rises to fame and becomes well known for a variety of reasons. He sings in nightclubs, stars in public service announcements for children, produces top-of-the-charts music hits, and generally defeats wrongdoers with the power of his belt. Dick Lecter, the CEO of multi-industrial conglomerate LecterCorp, learns of Pootie Tang's positive influence on society — and his negative influence on LecterCorp's bottom line. After his henchmen and a vile villain named Dirty Dee are sent away by Pootie's friends, Lecter encourages his right-hand lady, Ireenie, to seduce Pootie Tang into signing an agreement with LecterCorp that would stop Pootie Tang's influence on America's children.
Pootie Tang falls for Ireenie's tricks and subsequently falls apart. His status as pop culture icon is destroyed, and he engages on a quest to "find [him]self". This journey is encouraged by Biggie Shortie, who promises to wait for Pootie to return to her and to the rest of society. Pootie moves to a farm where the local sheriff decides Pootie and his daughter should start dating. After his single corn stalk dies, he has a vision of Daddy Tang and Momma Dee. Daddy Tang reveals that there is nothing special about Pootie's belt; instead, Pootie must fight evil with the goodness that is inside him. After dealing with Dirty Dee and his henchman Froggy (as well as getting his belt back), Pootie realizes he must move back to the city and fight crime once again.
Pootie Tang returns to the city just as Dick Lecter is unveiling the first of his new restaurant chain, Pootie's Bad Time Burgers. At a small news conference, Pootie confronts Lecter only to discover that Lecter has amassed dozens of "Pootie-alikes" who will spread the message of LecterCorp around the nation. Pootie Tang, with the help of Biggie Shortie, defeats all of these henchmen and Lecter himself. Good triumphs over evil once again, and Biggie Shortie finally gets her man: she and Pootie Tang plan to get married now that Pootie is back. Elsewhere, Dick Lecter leaves corporate life and becomes an actor, Ireenie leaves him and becomes a counselor helping at-risk teenage prostitutes, and Dirty Dee is still dirty.
=== Pootie Tang-isms ===
Although Pootie Tang speaks in a completely unintelligible jive, everyone he meets seems to understand him. Here are some examples of his vocabulary. See wikiquote for a more complete list.

Review: I can imagine someone who isn't a fan, or at least an observer, of the above things would hate this movie like poison, but for me, who has seen more Jay-Z videos than I ever wanted to see and who can't help laughing when I see a man use kung-fu to bounce bullets off his hair (a gag too complicated to explain, but seamless on screen), POOTIE TANG is fantastic.I'd recommend it more, but it's just too hard to describe!.
Just to let the world know---if ya ain't seen Pootie Tang in it's full glory it's time to get your business in order!!!
If ya like the kind of stuff ya can laugh at for no reason at all (except that it's funny) then you need to rent it, invite over your friends who are non-believers and do the doggone thing!!!
A lot of my own friends here in the great city of Detroit have doubts about my precious Pootie but I am so going to erase all of their fears of letting loose-cause that's exactly what you do when you are all in like me.
Chris Rock absolutely needs to do a sequel and I think it should be called,"POOTIE TANGING JR." Now how's that for devotion!
Pootie--I love you and I always will!!Somebody please tell Chris Rock that we NEED some mo' Pootie Tang in our lives!!!.
Lance Crouther plays the title character in a short yet entertaining movie about a hero with a belt that helps him against the forces of evil, plus his gift of saying things that have no meaning whatsoever (like ebonics mixed with down syndrome, but it's funny).
Chris Rock (in 3 equally hilarious roles), Robert Vaughn and Wanda Sykes also star in this movie with it's only damaging flaw being that after a while it runs out of steam.
"Pootie Tang" was conceived on the HBO hit The Chris Rock Show, in this spin off movie, Pootie is trying to take all the junk food, drugs and alcohol off the street that is being distributed by Dick Lecter (Robert Vaughn).
"Pootie Tang" seems like a send up to 70's blaxpoitation films, but at the same time, I don't know what it is.
I don't want to see any formulaic structure from the drama side of things crossing over - which a lot of Holly-comedies have - it has to take on its own form and the Chris Rock produced "Tang" does that.
Having seen it three days ago, I have already forgotten virtually the entire movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time, and my girlfriend, who is less tolerant of pure silliness than I am, laughed throughout.
Pootie Tang is a character created by Louis C.K. with actor Lance Crother, who is a successful hip hop artist, who is also a ladies man and a crimefighter in his spare time.
Both films are made by people who obviously don't have all the mechanics of filmmaking down (Dolemite's boom mike pops into shots so much it might as well have gotten a supporting cast credit, Pootie Tang features possibly THE WORST narration in the history of film).
Both also have quite a bit of social satire, plus additional humor derived from the sheer stupidity of the filmmaking.Pootie Tang is, in itself, a bad idea for a movie.
There are some jokes that work (I liked Pootie's new hit single, and also the tense climactic standoff between Pootie and Dirty) but a lot of other material doesn't (Cameos by Andy Ricter and David Cross are totally wasted).
Pootie Tang is a very fun movie that cannot be taken seriously.
It was one of those movies where you say to yourself "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!!", "WERE THEY HIGH?!" specifically, Chris Rock, he could have done a lot better than this garbage..
Unfortunately, his talent does not at all shine through in Pootie Tang, and I honestly have no idea how anyone could find this movie funny.
Lance Crouther stars as Pootie Tang, a folk hero of sorts who speaks in gibberish but is world famous for his movies, his music and his general heroism (he often gets in fights with drug dealers who end up in prison).
Chris Rock co-stars in multiple roles (Pootie Tang's father and a member of his crew).
If you are liking off the way funny things to watch and having things that you don't expect happen this movie is for you.
Those who like the film probably enjoy absurdism, have a familiarity with various facets of African American oriented pop-culture going back to at least the early 1970s, and do not mind silly humor delivered in compact packages primarily for entertainment value.Pootie Tang is basically a spoof on various stereotypical (though rooted in reality) aspects of African American pop culture, ranging from Parliament/Funkadelic-styled goofiness and blaxploitation films to rap/hip-hop films, music videos, and other cultural items embraced by stereotypical African American pop culture, such as westerns, superhero films, and martial arts films (although the martial arts is also sourced from blaxploitation flicks).
Here is the basic punchline of this one-joke comedy (if that's what you consider it):  The main character, Pootie Tang, blurts out a bunch of words and phrases that no one understands but the characters in the story.
Though, despite some a few low points, it's a talented amusing show with an original spoof superstar and something sharp to say which bitterly is that we live the era of (Pootie Tang) and his likes, imitators, wannabes..
I was put off from watching this film for a long time mainly because of the bad rep it has, which after watching the movie i just can't understand.
The movie was actually very funny, it is a comedy so maybe the story and the acting aren't flawless, but Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes are pretty good, I had no idea they were in it before watching the movie, the dirty villain guy was hilarious, and personally i thought the whole speech thing with Pootie Tang was funny, even though I had no idea WTF he was saying.
Nothing really made sense, everything was very uneven, i almost didn't realize i was watching movie because it is quite similar to a bad commercial trying to be funny.
Ok there are three reasons why I didn't like this movie at all.One: English isn't my mother tongue so I guess I couldn't possibly get the humor connected with the way Pootie "talks" (I assume he's trying to express something although I couldn't understand a single word he was saying).
Plus the jokes are so lame you can hardly take it without having to go to the bathroom at least twice an hour (breaks are needed in order to cope with the idea of having to sit through another bunch of painful not even remotely funny pranks).Three and most important of all: POOTIE TANG SUCKS...HARD.
I must say, just reading some of the other reviews made me laugh, especially the ones that say they didn't like this movie because you can't understand what Pootie is saying(duh!
It reminds me of embarrassing yet hilarious inside jokes among my family that I would never share with anyone else, only this time blatantly displayed in public.The best thing about this film is that it's not pretentious, like many comedies are these days.
In the tradition of all of the lame SNL movies, this is another in a long line of films based on short sketches that tries, and fails, to stretch about 5 minutes of good material into a (barely) full-length motion picture.
Haven't laughed a single time.I thought it would be nice with Chris Rock, but I was wrong.Never see Pootie Tang unless you want to really waste your time..
If your mind is open and you're willing to watch a stupid movie, Pootie Tang has some very funny scenes.
I don't really know if I'd call it Blaxploitation, but nonetheless, if you liked Dolomite you'll like Pootie Tang.I mean seriously, he has his own language, fights crime with a belt and deflects bullets with his pony tail.This movie deserves to be in the same class as Orgazmo, The Wrong Guy, Brain Candy and so many other under-rated hilarious movies.If this sounds good to you, go rent it..
Though savaged by critics and ignored by audiences -- the few people I knew who saw it in the theatre all said they were the only ones there -- Pootie Tang will definitely undergo a critical renaissance and re-evaluation as cult-film fans come to terms with its comedic genius.
Because this is a spinoff of a cable-only HBO show (Chris Rock Show) that had a much smaller following, and the skits with Pootie Tang were far less frequent than Wayne's World.
His deadpan approach is exactly the way Pootie needed to be played - just a cooler than cool guy who has a way with the ladies and a strong sense of right and wrong.This is a film that should have received more press and more marketing - some people will hate it, no doubt, but many more will love it..
In my case, I thought it was the second-funniest movie I'd ever seen, after Airplane!About a month ago, Pootie Tang was reviewed by my school newspaper, for a reason that's beyond me.
And, one of the most amusing takes on Western fast-draw camera angles that's ever been done (it sure puts "The Quick and the Dead" to shame...)Basically, although Pootie Tang's a weird movie, it's got a great subtle humor to it, a humor that is underappreciated..
Sine Da Tay on the Tippy TyePootie Tang biddies, Sa may NA!Seriously, even though I was the only white kid in the state of Michigan to see this movie, I thought it was the best film I've seen this year.
For everyone out there that was expecting there to be some complex plot and respectable acting, well, you must have Signed on da Tippe Fay, Just say DAH!Pootie Tang is the only movie I laughed the whole way through.
This movie was so bad that it even wasn't funny to laugh at how lousy it is.
I didn't pay for it but I still regret that I saw it because I wasted time on crap.In 1993 Chris Rock did a movie called CB4 which also was about superstars rise and fall.
The jokes in this movie was all the same over and over again which just was annoying.I think Chris Rock is a hilarious comedian and I even love his movies which flopped but this one...
The film started off pretty hilarious, but it got annoying over time constantly hearing pootie speak.
The PSA's done by Pootie were pretty funny I thought.This film got a 3 because of the redundancy of the humour and the fact that it was shown too many times on cinemax last summer.
And to think, they could have filmed Barney the purple dinosaur with this film; that's just how bad it is.When I saw Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes was in this movie, I thought it would be funny, but even THEY don't do enough to make you crack a smile.Luckily, this movie is only 70mins.
When he speaks,he's got entirely his own vocabulary(Words like 'cappatau')but this is about as funny as watching the Teletubbies and having everyone laugh at it because they feel as though they're 'supposed to' because well,it's supposedly cool!
Pootie Tang's language may have been funny for the Chris Rock Show but it's not enough to carry an entire movie.
the movie was just crap i expected so much more from chris rock it was point less he can't ever talk "hes to cool for words "  that is just plan stupid it makes no sence at all.....................................pootie tang is the biggest load of crap i thing im going to try to get my money back or kill my self etheir or.
Watch it twice at minimum to get the full effect, just like "Napoleon Dynamite." Excellent humor, Chris Rock is a f$#$ing GENIUS and needs to make way more movies.
I can't think of another movie that made me laugh so much, once the point was made about Pootie's "problem."Watch this with someone who has an open mind and doesn't mind laughing at stupidity.
I try to avoid...no...well, "Pootie Tang" was honestly the last flick on my list of movies to watch (actually it wasn't even on the list...), but I did watch it when I'd seen everything else on the tube.
This is probably the only way I would recommend it because it is far from even the middle of the road for popular film.Of course Pootie Tang is not a movie that should be approached like anything other than the Three Stooges or something similar, because its just plain stupid humor, that will likely stick with you for long after the Pootie Tang experience.
Tang is a magnetic presence, a 100% proof chick magnet, every guy's best friend and an eternally – if inexplicably popular – marketing symbol, hugely influential and always on the side of what is good and right.EVERYONE loves them some Tang but especially Biggy Shorty (Wanda Sykes) – a woman who is mos-def NOT a ho, even though she dances on street corners to unseen musical sources alongside prostitutes whilst scantily clad.The key plot-point is triggered when Tang has his reputation and image tarnished when he appears to side with big (naughty) business to endorse damaging products such as hard liquor and cigarettes, things he was previously known to abhor.He immediately steps away from the spotlight and all society seems to go to hell, with myriad "Pootie-alikes" stepping in to fill his endorsement and spokesman void – all seemingly hell-bent to hawk sh*t he wouldn't have previously gone anywhere near.()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()Before I tap another key I might point out that even if one microbe of this sounds amusing it really isn't.
The only time I chuckled was when Pootie released a single that featured nothing but silence, only to universal acclaim and chart success – though I immediately castigated myself.Despite comedians I absolutely love this is a laugh-free zone, something I would have thought impossible without watching it myself – twice.Look.
For me it's very simple; when a comedy amuses me and makes me laugh I consider it to be a good and effective one, no matter how bad and silly the movie got done.It's just the sort of movie in which things simply just happen, without often share a clear connection with each other and without featuring a real solid or clear main-story.
It's really simplistic, especially story-wise but lots of its moments are simply funny and therefor this movie does work out as a comedy.I really won't pretend like "Pootie Tang" is the greatest thing ever.
But luckily the movie is too short to start to further decline, below the level of average.Still the funniest Chris Rock comedy I've seen in years.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/.
Pootie Tang's language is hilarious and then there were just those golden moment that make me laugh every time I think back on them (like when young Pootie is being thrown out by one of his adult women and she tosses his stuffed animals and big-wheel out the window).
There were a few scenes that I didn't really think were funny but, all in all, this movie was a great blaxploitation spoof.
Pootie was like the black super man.My favorite character in this whole movie was Wanda Sykes as "Biggie Shorty".She gave hoes all over the world a new self confidence!!!The only thing in the whole movie that i really didn't understand was how Dirty Dee got out of jail?
Well for all you Pootie haters all i have to say is "SADATAY" and if you don't like it "I WILL SIGN YO PITY ON DA RUNNY KIND!" Pootie Tang was one of the best movies ever!
but its better than pootie tang.he should have just stayed with the chris rock show because he was actually funny in it.
If you are looking for a laugh you will love this movie especially the main character pootie tang..
"Pootie Tang", based on a sketch character from The Chris Rock Show, is another piece of evidence to add to the fact that sketch characters usually don't work for long periods of time  look at most Saturday Night Live movies, and to a lesser extent Jay and Silent Bob.
I saw "Pootie Tang" for free on my University's movie channel, and even though it was free I STILL want a refund.
This movie is so funny i see it every time i get the chance.
Pootie tang speaks in the strangest language that makes it kind of fun to try to figure out what he says The girls go crazy for him and the bad guys fear him cause he can whip anyones ass with just his belt.
Pootie Tang has been on HBO for awhile now and every time it's on, I usually watch it unless there's better movies on.
Lance Crouther who plays Pootie Tang is hilarious with those great and memorable lines such as "Wad a ta." Other characters were really funny too such as the sheriff and Dirty Dee. The film is not great in any way and is so forgettable, it's not even funny, but like I said it's on HBO a lot, so you can't really forget it.
Overall, a funny film with hilarious lines and great flash scenes of Pootie like what they did on Austin Powers.
Pootie Tang is a very stupid film.
The difference between the aforementioned movies and Pootie Tang is budget, production values, and an audience that will accept it even if it is crap.
Pootie Tang is a laugh out loud comedy classic that will have you stomach hurting.
Whenever Pootie whips out his belt, comedy ensues and anyone watching the movie will laugh hard.