Directed by Cliff Roquemore
Screenplay by Cliff Roquemore
Based on the character by Rudy Ray Moore
Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Jimmy Lynch, Leroy Daniels, Ernest Mayhand, Ebony Wright, Brian Breye and G. Tito Shaw
This is the first blaxploitation movie that I have seen fully. I am familiar with Dolemite, Coffy and Shaft. This movie is a trip and a half.
Petey Wheatstraw (Moore) is a comedian that knows martial arts from Bantu (Breye). Two rival comedians, Skillet and Leroy (Mayhand, Daniels) owe him a lot of money. Instead of paying the money, they decide to take him out. Lucifer (Shaw) saves Petey in order to marry the ugliest woman in the underworld, his daughter.
The movie is not awful. It's interesting. My face went from confusion to laughing back to confusion. I was thinking is this movie completely ADR. No? Is it like a kung fu movie with bad dubbing? Yes. The fight choreography is weird. The acting wasn't great, but at same time was. There are some iconic scenes in this movie.
I might need to watch more blaxploitation movies and recess this movie in the future.
Rating: 4/10
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