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Can you believe it? On Saturday we sat down and watched a movie that we had rented. How crazy is that? What movie did we watch, you ask?

Black Dynamite.

Basically, some wonderful, wonderful people made a new Blaxsploitation film. It was completely glorious. I have not seen a movie that made me laugh so hard in a long, long time. It is highly recommended.

Why is this movie so successful? Mostly because of the key fact that it doesn’t think it is funny. Besides several very joke-y jokes, which manage to work because they are just so ridiculous (Three Word Example: Captain Kangaroo Pimp), the entire film is played completely straight. Everything is the most serious thing that has ever happened. The drugs on the streets is a real threat! Black Dynamite is one bad motherfucker, and he is not going to be stopped. Not to mention, he has no more than 5 different origin stories and 8 different reasons for going after the bad guys, although it continually changes who the bad guys are. But the movie doesn’t realize how little sense it makes. It’s being completely serious all the time. It makes you laugh so hard, time and again.

Looking at the special features really drove home how much the makers of this movie got it. The special features are all exposition that explains the plot and attempts to make the horrible narrative make sense. These scenes aren’t funny. They’re true to the genre, but they’re true to the boring parts of the genre. Much like how Retro Game Challenge takes the good parts you remember from retro games and removes the bad parts, the makers of Black Dynamite decided, rightly, to take all of those boring parts out of there movie. It makes it more surreal, which cranks up the humor, and it makes it so that the laughs don’t stop.

In any case, I really, really enjoyed this film. It was one of the most entertaining comedies I’ve seen in a long fucking while. If you like laughter, you owe it to yourself to give this a view. You won’t be disappointed.