This is all a high-falutin' way of saying: Black Dynamite will make you laugh hard, and become your new cult classic instantly.Ĭast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Michael Caine
Michael Jai Whiteis simply having the most fun as our badass genre hero, a character who both exists within the plot of the film and as a meta-textual anchor trying desperately to keep the sinking ship of "the movie" afloat through sheer force of will. This is, thank goodness, not the case with Black Dynamite, a gut-busting campy-on-purpose comedy that lovingly spoofs the Blaxploitation genre and all of the low-budget goofs therein. The problem with movies that try to capture "camp," a quality that's usually the result of a lack of self-awareness, is that the filmmakers tip too hard into effort, losing some of that gulf between commitment and comedy that makes a text as deliriously campy as it needs to me.
Writers: Michael Jai White, Scott Sanders, Byron MinnsĬast: Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Salli Richardson