Wonderful character development!

Waste of time

Disappointment for a huge fan!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Black Dynamite is one of those hidden gems that once you'll discover, it will automatically be added in your "top 10" & "must see on a weekly basis" lists. You're probably wondering why I sort of contradict myself by calling it one of the best comedies of all time, and not scoring it a 10/10, but instead giving it a solid 8. Well, I tell you, just like "The Man" tells Black Dynamite at the climax confrontation: "there's a perfect, reasonable explanation".By now, you're probably familiar with the fact that BD spoofs the blaxploitation movies, in a similar way Airplane did with the disaster films. While both films enormously succeed at it, there is a tiny difference that separates a Black Dynamite from becoming a classic like Airplane.SPOILERS:The reason why Airplane is such a classic, and Naked Gun is so toe-to- toe with it as well, is because the ZAZ team focused on capitalizing every single key moment of the film and seized it to make a joke out of it, whether if it was relevant to the plot of the movie or not. Let's take for instance "Naked gun":One of the most recurring jokes of the film is Frank Debrin's driving. In one film while parking his car, he crashes against some garbage cans, leaves the car on "Drive" and starts shooting at his own car thinking someone else was aiming to kill him. In another one, he crashes against a park meter, boosting all its coins. None of these jokes were relevant to the plot, nor it had any relation whatsoever with the characters. The same thing happens with Airplane, like the scene in which a passenger asks Elaine for "something light to read", to which Elaine offers a pamphlet of "Great Jewish sports legends". This is where Black Dynamite misses its mark and fails. It seems that either the director or the writer were a bit shy or timid with the approach of going full-throttle on the spoof/satire/comedy approach. There are parts of the movie where the plot gets a bit too serious, and you can see several missed chances and opportunities to capitalize on potential scenes that could have been hillariously funny.The dialogs could have been wittier, the clumsiness could have been squeezed even more, and even the intentional errors could have been more frequent and deliberate. Some of the jokes fly too fast and may be lost unless you pay close attention; sometimes you don't catch them until a second or even third viewing. An example of this is the scene where Chicago wind dies. If it was me filming this, I would have kept him talking to the rear mirror way longer, and have him drive the car through more curves without looking at the road, only to fall of the cliff the instant when he actually turned and started looking at the road. Or when Black Dynamite's brother is shot, when one of the shooters approaches him and says "he's dead"; well, you just shot him like 6 times from 5 feet away, of course he must be dead! But I would have taken the scene a bit further and have him shot like say, 50 times, and then go ahead with the "he's dead" line. That would have been way funnier and easier to catch by viewers.Still, even with all of these missed chances, Black Dynamite made it to my top 10 & "must watch at least once every week" lists. The jokes never get old and the absurdity of the ridiculous situations will always bring a smile to your face, just like the title of my review. 10 out of 10 in my heart 8 out of 10 objectively speaking

Easily one of the most self aware movies ever made, "Black Dynamite" has every kind of funny available. Being both unintentional and intentionally hilarious, it's a wonderful homage to the Blaxploitation movies of the 1970's and the setup is delivered with all its wonderful inconsistencies and hilariously awful dialogue that would make a porno blush.Former CIA agent Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White), must avenge his brother's death while cleaning the streets of a new drug that is ravaging the community. Among his quest he's confronted by love interest Gloria (Salli Richardson), and a slew of figures from the criminal underworld. All of which culminates in a shocking revelation that goes all the way "to the top".Michael Jai White stars as the eponymous hero (He also helped write the script), and plays the part exceptionally. If you're looking for a serious cop drama, then the movie will just keep punishing you outright. As the situation rises, the plot gets more outlandish as everyone is in on the joke. The music by Adrian Younge is fantastic in echoing the feel of the genre, and the film proved so popular an animated series spawned from it. Final Verdict: Extremely faithful to the movies it parodies. In many cases it doesn't hold up for a feature length, but there's enough substance here that I hope they create a sequel with this level of respect. 8/10.

Black Dynamite The difference between white sticks of dynamite and black sticks of dynamite is that the black ones are longer.But let's leave the racial penis jokes up to this comedy, shall we. When his brother is mysteriously killed, former CIA operative Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) hits the streets for answers.Eventually, the trail leads to the government, and their plan to add a chemical to a new brand of malt liquor that will shrink the junk of every African-American man. But Black Dynamite and his crew (Tommy Davidson, Phil Morris, Byron Minns) are unprepared for the real perpetrator behind this cultural shriveling - a cross-dressing President Richard Nixon.Outlandish as it is hilarious, this salute to 1970s Kung Fu and blaxploitation movies pays homage to the much-maligned genres while lampooning both to a T.Besides, if US genital size decreases, America will no longer be a threat to China.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

It's difficult to actually come across consistently hilarious spoofs or comedies in general. My favorites in the genre are Airplane! and the Naked Gun series and this brilliant laughfest towers right up there next to them. There is so many razor sharp jokes spread out in this film that it's hard to decide which sequence is the funniest. In my opinion probably the Kung Fu practicing with his turkey Japs, that sequence really is pure dynamite. Some other negative reviews stated that Michael J. White is not funny and that is completely false, he's not just funny but one of the best performers of black comedy I've seen in decades (black comedy as in style not color).Michael also wrote the film which is even more impressive. Hopefully we'll see more comedy from him in the future.Dy-No-Mite--Dy-No-MiteOutstanding!!!!!