Pootie Tang

Pootie Tang (2001)

Too cool for words.

Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young Black children of America, supatime.

Date of release
2001-06-29
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (175)
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Comedy, Action
Director
Louis C.K.

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: New Jersey

Pootie Tang is a 2001 American comedy film written and directed by Louis C.K. and adapted from a comedy sketch that first appeared on The Chris Rock Show. The character Pootie Tang is a satire of the stereotyped action heroes who appeared in old blaxploitation films. The title character's speech, which vaguely resembles pidgin, is mostly unintelligible to the audience, but the other characters in the film have no problem understanding him.

Production

Originally a Paramount Classics film titled Pootie Tang in Sine Your Pitty on the Runny Kine, the budget was increased and transferred to the main Paramount Pictures division. After watching Louis C.K. talk to Caldecot Chubb, one of the movie's producers, Rock predicted that Chubb would eventually betray an unsuspecting C.K. and take the movie away from him. C.K. has said that he was all but fired from the film during the editing phase.

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