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[18+] Fifty Shades of Black
In this spoof, sex and comedy go hand in hand. The movie follows Christian Black, a hunky, tormented billionaire whose sexual practices put a strain on his relationship with an inexperienced college student.
2 May 1983, San Mateo County, California, USA
10 March 1969, Newark, Delaware, USA
31 May 1979, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
21 August 1962, Portland, Oregon, USA
March 11, 2016
50 Shades of Black does, at least, have to good grace to be 50 times more entertaining than the original.
January 29, 2016
Wayans continues his pattern of creating movie simulacra - calling them "parodies" or even "spoofs" puts far too fine a point on it - whereby we're supposed to laugh because we recognize the thing that is being reenacted.
March 07, 2016
Predictable but unexpectedly enlightened.
December 31, 2016
A moment of Netflix product placement suggests the idea that this would have been better as one no-filler hour of television.
January 31, 2016
Wayans is ... incapable of limiting himself to parodying one movie at a time, tossing in riffs on Whiplash, Magic Mike, and Zero Dark Thirty to varying degrees of success.
June 21, 2016
The message remains, ultimately, one of female empowerment ... but here it's presented through an endless blizzard of latex genitalia, racial epithets and bodily fluids.
January 29, 2016
As a piece of cultural criticism, however, it painstakingly eviscerates nearly every scene in "Grey" and skewers latent sexism, classism and ludicrous sexual innuendoes, as well as the original's numerous plot holes.
March 23, 2016
There are undoubtedly four or five one-liners that will have you in stitches, but given the scattergun approach to jokes, that makes for a rather minuscule percentage.
January 29, 2016
As with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull's-eyes arrive only intermittently.
March 13, 2016
Another depressing "cinema parody" that isn't half as amusing as the film(s) it wants us to laugh at.
February 16, 2017
A horrible movie and an even worse parody, it's sad that one ends up laughing less with it than with 'Fifty shades of Grey'. [Full review in Spanish]
February 04, 2016
The movie's mean-spiritedness becomes even more painful than the dippiness of the source material.

