Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Snap Judgment: Black Dynamite

Kyle: Black Dynamite is funny and worth your time. Verdict: [B+]

Randy: Though obviously not worth Kyle's time to explicate on.

Kyle: Correct. Because with its B+ grade, it's only one step above a Bobby Womack song.

Randy: That was the part where Kyle tried his hand at writing a Non-Sequitur comic strip. But for the record, Black Dynamite has just enough self-awareness to pull everything off without a hitch. Breaking the fourth wall, tire-damaging plotholes, boom mics dipping into the picture, deus ex machina--this isn't a comedy about a Shaft knockoff. It's a farce on Hollywood action films as a whole. Which was never more painfully obvious until I said it out loud. Just now. Verdict: [B]

Kyle: That was the part where Randy couldn't keep it to a short-and-simple snap judgment and had to get preachy. But his description has my blessing, despite the "tire-damaging plotholes" pun.

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