Pootie Tang works, in part, because it doesn't. Which is to say the movie's special success is inextricable from the moments where it blatantly fails. The movie exerts a beguiling charm that can only be explained as the je ne sais quoi of sa da tay.

A bona fide cult object in the making.

A pretty inspired and consistently witty satirical skewering of three decade's worth of macho black pop cultural clichs.

'Pootie Tang' seems to have all the earmarks of a film that suffered from too many cooks adding their own special ingredients.