Let's Do It Again

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Let's Do It Again

PG

1975

1h 52m

Comedy

Action

Crime

Drama

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Milkman Clyde Williams (Sidney Poitier) and his best friend, Billy Foster (Bill Cosby), are members of a fraternal lodge, The Brothers and Sisters of Shaka, that needs money for the retirement home they sponsor. Since Clyde has a gift for hypnotism, they decide to fix an upcoming boxing match by hypnotizing the underdog fighter (Jimmie Walker). The scam works, and the men collect big winnings before a couple of mafia dons realize they've been tricked and decide to track Clyde and Billy down.

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Pauline Kael

The New Yorker

Poiter is overly generous with the actors: he isn't skilled enough to shape sequences so that the actors can benefit from their closeups.

Oct 19, 2023

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Let's Do It Again isn't a terribly ambitious comedy, but within its limitations it works well. And it's completely good natured.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 23, 2004

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Steve Warren

The Barb (Atlanta)

A pleasant surprise.

May 9, 2023

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Craig Fisher

Los Angeles Free Press

Most of its gags are sub-Disney.

Nov 22, 2019

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Jesús Fernández Santos

El Pais (Spain)

A confused and disorganized movie. [Full Review in Spanish]

Jul 23, 2019

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Austin Kennedy

Sin Magazine

It's not GREAT cinema or anything like that. Just a fun mild diversion, though I will probably watch it again just too see all of Cosby's great facial mugging.

Rated: 3/4

May 12, 2012

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Steve D

....Lets not ever do it again.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/19/23

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Audience Member

the great Sidney Poitier and the once-great Bill Cosby star in buddy scam comedy they both play a milkman and a factory worker in NYC named Billy and Clyde; they want to save their church from being closed down and demolished yet they're short on the funds the extension is about up and they need $50,000 so they hatch a plan: turn whatever savings they have currently and hopefully gamble it into more from there they decide to take their wives with them to New Orleans to score big Billy and Clyde also master the art of hypnosis and they use it on a boxer Bootney Farnsworth to make him believe he's very strong but will it be that easy? how long until the jig is up? it isn't long before word gets out on Farnsworth's winning streak and every gambling king wants in on the action by the time all of them figure out the scam Billy and Clyde make a run for it and it's one heck of a fun chase through the city landscape the comedy works, the 70's jazz music brightens things up, and the shenanigans Cosby and Poitier get into is something out of a screwball comedy lightning doesn't strike the same place twice but when it does it catches a 1970's flick that's good natured as well as a fun diversion

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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s r

Fun and cheesy, but falls short of the mark in its unbelievable story.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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This movie was the follow-up to "Uptown Saturday Night" and was equally as hilarious. I enjoyed it when it came out in 1975 and I still watch this movie at least 2-3 times a year. The third movie in this trilogy is "A Piece Of the Action." A more serious movie and not as funny as the first two but still very good. All three movies are very good. Highly recommended.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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bear no likeness to the 1953 musical pic of the same name

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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One of my all time favorites

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Synopsis

Milkman Clyde Williams (Sidney Poitier) and his best friend, Billy Foster (Bill Cosby), are members of a fraternal lodge, The Brothers and Sisters of Shaka, that needs money for the retirement home they sponsor. Since Clyde has a gift for hypnotism, they decide to fix an upcoming boxing match by hypnotizing the underdog fighter (Jimmie Walker). The scam works, and the men collect big winnings before a couple of mafia dons realize they've been tricked and decide to track Clyde and Billy down.

Director: Sidney Poitier
Producer: Melville Tucker
Screenwriter: Richard Wesley
Production Co: First Artists, Verdon Productions Limited, Warner Bros.
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 29, 2016
Runtime: 1h 52m

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