Dolemite

Dolemite

Dolemite
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Actor: Brenda Banks (II), Brenda DeLong, Jana Bisbing, Karolynn Hill, Pat Haywood
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-03-19
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Xenon

Movie Reviews of Dolemite

Movie Review: Note to the "no life-having" critics
Summary: 5 Stars

To all those who are seriously "critiquing/criticizing" this movie, please find a life--because, clearly, you have none.

"Dolemite" is a classic movie from a classic genre. Rudy Ray Moore was the King of The Party Records. It is his presence that people love (and the Hamburger Pimp). The mistakes are part of what makes this film entertaining.

It's a fun movie...FUN. Get it?? If you can't handle that, there are plenty of Meryl Streep films available for your dry, boring behinds to watch.

Summary of Dolemite

Dolemite has to deal with Willie Green, Mitchell and White, Mayor Daly, and assorted production equipment used to film the movie-all in an attempt to regain control of his nightclub. He is joined with his kung-fu fighting whores, Queen Bee, and the Reverend in this heroic struggle. This cult favorite blaxploitation film from 1975 is amusingly inept by any true cinematic standards and takes the blaxploitation genre to an entirely different level. You'll laugh. (The boom even appears in scenes for extended periods of time!)
  • Actors: Rudy Ray Moore, D'Urville Martin, Jerry Jones, Lady Reed, Brenda DeLong
  • Directors: D'Urville Martin
  • Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating:
  • Studio: Umvd/Visual Entertai
  • DVD Release Date: June 7, 2005
  • Run Time: 88 minutes
  • Size: 7 1/2" x 5 1/4"


Who's the baddest motherf****r to blow onto blaxploitation screens? Forget Shaft and just ask X-rated comic and "godfather of rap" Rudy Ray Moore. He'll give you the gospel of Dolemite. Street hustler, pimp, and all-around ghetto superhero Dolemite began life as a character in Moore's nightclub act and was a natural character for his self-financed film debut, a revenge tale set on the corrupt streets of L.A.

Dolemite is sprung from prison by an impossibly understanding warden so he can find the drug-dealing, gun-smuggling crooks who framed him. With the help of his all-girl army of kung fu killers and the most flamboyant wardrobe this side of Cher, he lays waste to dozens of bad guys while spouting his funky raps. Thick, slow and sleepy, Moore is neither a natural actor not a convincing martial arts action hero, but his lazy line deliveries are great, lyrical cascades of four-letter words and "ghetto expressions," and he performs two of his most famous stand-up raps, "Shine and the Great Titanic" and "The Signifying Monkey."

Dolemite is not a particularly competent movie--the direction (by costar D'Urville Martin) is clumsy, the performances flat, and microphones peek in from time to time (get that video letterboxed, Xenon!)--but the outrageous mix of nightclub rap, kung-fu action, and Moore's four-letter dialogue turned it into an instant urban hit and has kept it alive as a cult classic. Dolemite returns in The Human Tornado. The DVD also features clips from the documentary The Legend of Dolemite and the complete lyrics to his raps. --Sean Axmaker

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