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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Funny as the joke may be, it's still only one joke. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: Worse than a below-average sketch-to-screen Saturday Night Live film. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: The rule is pretty simple: The thinner the skit, the thinner the big-screen spin-off. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: A pretty inspired and consistently witty satirical skewering of three decade's worth of macho black pop cultural cliches. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Succeeds as a laugh getter because of the spot-on satirical notes. Read more
Bob Longino, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Cheaply made stuff, patently stupid and, most of the time, a pure pleasure to watch. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: It would've made a great 30-minute comic short. Most of the film is padding. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: As brilliant as Rock can be, this material is a reflection of his shallow, moralistic side. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Its calculated crudity and sledgehammer gags offer the same ephemeral pleasures one gets when heckling a campy blaxploitation thriller. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Not bad so much as inexplicable. You watch in puzzlement. Read more
Wesley Morris, San Francisco Chronicle: Mostly an amusing exercise in black vernacular, searching for a point. Read more
Nathan Lee, Village Voice: Pootie Tang works, in part, because it doesn't. Which is to say the movie's special success is inextricable from the moments where it blatantly fails. The movie exerts a beguiling charm that can only be explained as the je ne sais quoi of sa da tay. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A bona fide cult object in the making. Read more
Richard Harrington, Washington Post: A two-minute character-based skit ... stretched to a mind-boggling 82 minutes. Read more