framptonhollis Robert Downey Sr.'s filmography is a treasure trove of surrealism, experimental filmmaking, satire, and hilarity, and "Putney Swope" is often considered to be the man's masterpiece. While I personally prefer "No More Excuses", I can definitely say that "Putney Swope" is likely his most well made and scripted film. It's a laugh out loud satire of greed, race, politics, commercials, etc., and is one of the funniest films ever made. Some of the humor is so dark and strange that it reminded me of some of the more humorous moments in David Lynch's work (especially "Eraserhead").While it is a great and entertaining film, I refrain from giving it a perfect score simply because it did feel a little bit tedious towards the ending, and there were less laughs. However, it is still a genius and intelligent little film that begs to be seen by all lovers of satire and dark humor.

mwartoad I have to admit I had never heard of this movie. I caught it last night on TMC. I thought it was hysterical. I laughed so hard and loved the ending. Image what a Marx brothers movie would like if they collaborated with Salvadore Dali and Malcolmn X and then all dropped LSD.Funny and edgy are two overused words these days, this movie sure has that plus about 200 IQ points of most comedies today and surrealistic to boot. I had to be up at 6:00 am and watched it until 2:30. I over slept and missed my obligations. Still worth it. I would not recommend renting it, I would recommend owning it. It was that good.The only warning I have is that so of the references are dated and might not be gotten by younger people. Bare with it and use your head.I would have to put it in my top comedies of all time.

Lee Eisenberg Made at the height of the Black Power movement, this movie portrays African-American Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) getting made CEO of a corporation after the white CEO dies (the white executives all hate each other and can't decide who should succeed the previous CEO). Once in power, he decides to turn it into a militant organization.I don't know how Robert Downey Sr did it, but he did it! "Putney Swope" is the ultimate jab at America's power structure. It's the sort of thing that seems like it would have come out of Richard Pryor's mind. This is a comedy classic in every sense of the word. A real masterpiece. Hilarious.

Noel What more can I say - boring and pointless. Oh, I see that this doesn't constitute enough for a review. Well, maybe I should just waffle on like the movie itself. You fired!!! Why? Because you waffle on too much & I'm a grumpy old black man who makes a lot of nonsensical but aggressive remarks to people. Hey man, I'm a jive hep-cat who's going where I'm going and I'll go there without you anyway, man. F**k you! Yeah, well f**k you. Hey Putney there's people over here trying to make something like a plot line! I told you that I want this movie to be weird - no plot, just lots of strange things being said and lots of anti-establishment things to show that we're against that sort of thing. And THAT is a pretty good summation of the first 35 minutes of Putney Swope which is as much as I could stand. Now I'm no enemy to avant-garde movies, freeform movies, outre movies. I LOVE L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad. But this is just bad.