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Black Dynamite
Winner Best Film - SIFF 2009 Golden Space Needle Audience Awards
Who's the cat that won't cop out when there's danger all about? No, not him, I'm talkin' about Black Dynamite. When “The Man” murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised as Anaconda malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the only hero willing to fight all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House. He's a master of kung fu, has a lot of guns, and beds the most beautiful women in the hood. In short, Black Dynamite is every hero you wish you could be. One of the biggest hits to emerge out of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Black Dynamite is a pitch-perfect ode to 1970s Blaxploitation movies and television. Director Scott Sanders, along with his co-writer and star Michael Jai White, craft a scalpel-sharp satire of the entire genre, right down to the Naugahyde jackets, casual sexual harassment, and outrageously large Afros. So settle yourself down at the midnight grindhouse, light up a Fred Williamson cigar, and enjoy some Black Dynamite-style kick-ass set to the most funktastic bouncing beats you’ll ever hear.
Sponsor:
Scarecrow Video
Cast & Crew
Director: Scott Sanders
Producer: Jon Steingart, Jenny Wiener Steingart
Editor: Adrian Younge
Screenwriter: Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Scott Sanders
Cinematographer: Shawn Maurer
Music: Adrian Younge
Principal Cast: Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Byron Minns, James McManus
Filmography: The Last Bandit (2006); Thick As Thieves (1999)
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This cracker laughed her ass off!, Jun 11, 2009
By Mimi Noyes
“This was pure black gold! Both an homage and a spoof of blaxploitation films, it runs the gamut from amazing to ludicrous and is pretty much hilarious all the way through. A total funktastic blast! I do have to say that I liked it best when it was more of an homage, with loving attention paid to every detail from the clothes, the music, the dialog, the characters, the kung-fu (Oh God, yes, the kung-fu), and most hilarious of all the on purpose low-budget film styling and blunders, like boom mikes showing, car chases with rear projection, repeated special effects, and continuity errors galore. When Black Dynamite's little brother is killed fighting drugs on the street, he takes up the cause of trying to clean out the smack that the white man has been polluting his community with. But he realizes over time that things are for more insidious than that and that if he is going to save his fellow black man from a fate worse than death, he is going to have to take it all the way up to the top! The end of the film as I said becomes more parody, which wasn't as funny to me as the rest, but once the ideas and sources of what they were specifically parodying was made clear, I could understand where they were going with it and why. I still think that it goes too far and reduces the over-all excellence of the film, but it was still ten pounds of fun in a five pound bag. The film has been picked up by Sony, so keep your eyes out for it! ~MediaBabe.org~”
