Alan Lamprecht The greatest parody movie ever made. The 2009 comedic Blaxploitation magnum opus; BLACK DYNAMITE. The film is technically a movie within a movie. You see errors made by the fictitious directors (when in actuality these mistakes were intentionally made by the real director). That's right, a film with the courage to intentionally make errors and goofs all the time. The quality of BLACK DYNAMITE is in its lovely portrayal of the 70's Blaxploitation movies. Where most parody films fail is where this one shines the most, in capturing the heart of the original source material. The creators of this comedy clearly care for the films they're honoring. Another way this film succeeds is in it's jokes. There are so many jokes. The whole picture is filled to the brim with the full array of every kind of joke. Dumb jokes, easy jokes, long jokes, jokes you don't get upon first viewing, the list goes on, and yet none of the jokes are milked. Aesthetically, the film is edited, directed, filmed, and set to music just like it's source. One might even mistake this for a film from the 70's, if you didn't know it was from 2009, especially since they over altered the print. There is SO MUCH going on in this movie, it's extremely unlikely that you won't enjoy at least some aspects of it. The plot is so dense that it's fun to think of the fictional writers come up with a plot like this, because it's so familiar and yet so out there. Another thing to look out for is that the character's names are so creatively funny, you could almost use them as movie titles themselves. No matter how many times you see the film, there's always something new to pick up on. Upon a second viewing, you might realize that whatever Dynamite does, the music does too, which is great since the music is hilarious anyway. 'Sunny Side Up' is my favorite from the soundtrack. I was in tears of laughter for half of the film, and giggling away for the rest of it. I love this movie, it's already one of my favorites, in the same way that I love 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'. This is a film that they set out to make in one way and they made it in exactly that way. It's a film with no mistakes whatsoever (not counting the deliberate ones). To me, this film is a 10/10, if it weren't for my instincts telling me "But is it art". In a way, yes. But to be safe, I'll keep it at an incredible 9/10. This is one of my favorite films of all time, and if you haven't seen it yet, get on it right away. If it isn't at your video store, order it online. If you can't order it, then start the torrents. Do whatever it takes. What. Ever. It. Takes.Stellar: 9/10

lightman 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

Sean Kaye Well, if you're like me and you watched this movie only because of the high 7.5 star reviews, then I'm here to hopefully save you 2 hours of your life. First off, if you like things like Key and Peele (formerly of MADtv), then you will almost certainly not like this. If you think seeing a black guy in a totally pimped out over-the-top car covered in flashing lights, looking like Snoopy's dog house in Charlie Brown's Christmas is funny, or seeing a white teenage boy in a rusty Dodge Neon with a big aluminum wing bolted to the trunk is funny, then you probably won't like this movie. I grew up in the 70's and saw all the movies this one was trying to 'spoof' and the originals were WAY funnier but for a completely different reason. The originals were outrageously stupid yet took themselves terribly seriously and THAT was the whole joke about them! I actually think after Sanders started making this, he perhaps even got caught up in it and started thinking "You know, I could make a movie just as 'cool' as an original 1970's films", like he started feeling like Tarantino, and that's just plain sad. To me, this movie would probably appeal to teenage stoners who like to get high and watch Robot Chicken -- people who need to have dumbed-down humour spoon-fed to them as apposed to having to think for themselves.

siderite Nowadays, an American parody is almost always something that references other movies, but in the end is just a bad movie with lots of sex jokes. Black Dynamite is one of those rare films that can honour the things it is parodying and still be funny as hell: a true parody.That doesn't mean I share some of the enthusiasm of other reviewers here. It is hard at times to make the difference between the film and the movies it is parodying. Is it a parody or just a blackspoitation movie made in the 21st century? Occasional caricaturizations of the characters keep the viewer amused, but let's face it, it is hard to make a blackspoitation film not funny, anyway.Bottom line: Jax is sticking it to the man and, leaving dubious homosexual catchphrases aside, it is a funny parody of the 70's films with muscular black fighters and silly kung-fu. However, if you are too young to know what I am talking about, this film might not seem that amusing. It's a matter of taste, like always, but at least it is a film that sticks to the principles of making a parody.