Petey Wheatstraw

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Jens B @Jens97 07/26/2023 Rudy Ray Moore as Petey Wheatstraw! The watermelon birth scene! The theme song! The outfit changes! The rhyming! The kung fu! Calling the devil himself! The funeral shoot out! but also: Scenes that go on for EVER That weird band playing only five notes on repeat for at least ten minutes This movie should be crazy fun but honestly it dragged a lot in the middle. Still worth checking out, though! See more 01/16/2020 The special spin doesn't feel that special but sure they are laugh out loud moments like the birth sequence See more 10/01/2017 Rudy Ray Moore stars in this odd comedy that is never very funny. See more 12/27/2012 This is classic like. Coke See more 08/31/2012 Moore's third film makes the mistake of playing for intentional laughs rather than the unintentional ones that make the rest of his movies so compelling. Some movies are so bad they're great and some are so bad they're unwatchable. This is of the latter variety and makes the Wayan's brothers look like comic geniuses. I do recommend checking out Moore's brilliant opening monologue which features classic lines like "I'm gonna take the Fourth of July 'n put it in June". Don't attempt to view any further though. I'm glad this wasn't the first of Moore's films I watched or I wouldn't have bothered with the others. See more 07/15/2012 I've admitted many times my love for 70s blaxploitation films, often giving them pretty high marks, being very forgiving, and that sort of thing. However, with this one, I think I'm not as with the groove as I once was. Oh sure, I liked this, and it is watchable. but it's rather boring actually, and it amazed me to think how lenient I've been with these movies. Hmm. Maybe this one really does suck, or perhaps I've finally matured and am starting to see these movies for the the crap they are instead of insisting that they're unfairly maligned for one reason or another. Or maybe I'm just more of a fan of Dolemite, even though it's just as cheap, shoddy, and laughably terrible as this. Maybe it's because that one's so absurd is why I enjoy it. This one's absurd too, but it feels more forcably over the top, campy, and silly. However, exploding watermelon jokes will always be funny. Also, the opening irthing scene is admittedly so stupid it's brilliant. There is a plot here, and it is the old deal with the devil routine, and what the heck, it works I guess. I think I had a hard time with this one though mostly because I'm not a fan of the overtly slapsticky stuff (unless it's self aware parody like Black Dynamite). Maybe this is one of the first blaxploitation parodies? It could be, but I doubt it. Let's just end on a rather kind note and call Rudy Ray Moore the black Ed Wood (even though Moore didn't direct this or Dolemite, or his other films that I'm aware of), and call this one of his lesser works. See more Read all reviews

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