Matt: 2/4 rotten peels
by Ryan
"Dolemite is his name and fuckin' up motha fuckas is his game!"
Dolemite is a 1975 blaxploitation film that follows a pimp (Dolemite, played by Rudy Ray Moore) who was framed by Willie Greene (played by D'Urville Martin) and the crooked white cops, who planted stolen furs and drugs in his trunk. BUT HE'S BACK! Queen Bee and the Warden have sprung him out of jail and Dolemite is on the hunt to make Willie Greene pay for what he did! He has a whole army of call-girl ninja's to back him up in his quest to kick ass!
This movie try's really hard, but when the cast and crew consist of jive comedians, you can't expect much. I'll give them an A for effort. This film is so bad that its awesome, in one scene you can see the sound man lying on the ground with the boom mic. The charm of this film comes from the innate flaws around every corner. Bad acting, bad directing, bad editing, awesome dialogue, awesome music. What else is there?
This film does get too bad for its own good, though. After awhile, the charm wears off and you are left with just a bad movie. What was once hilarious fades into a monotonous string of failure to deliver a line beyond the second grade reading level. I must add, in retrospect, that watching Black Dynamite (read our review here) before Dolemite might have ruined the experience. Black Dynamite is a spoof film of the 1970's blaxploitation genre, of which Dolemite is a cornerstone.
Dolemite, in the very least, is worth a watch to experience the blaxploitation genre, but don't expect much.
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