Bill Cosby Lets Do It Again Glasses
"Invincible!"
This is my favorite of the Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier trilogy from the 70'south. The chemistry betwixt these ii is fantastic.
Cosby and Poitier are friends and club brothers who are trying to save their lodge from demolition. They determine to have the meager edifice fund and identify bets on a battle lucifer. The catch? The fighter they are going to bet on is a v to 1 underdog, and a hapless Jimmie Walker. Walker keeps getting knocked out by his sparring partners! How do they hope to win? Hypnosis!
The actors are all outset rate and there is fun all around. These films were a nice contrast to the "Blaxploitation" films of the lxx'south, as they provided more positive roles for many black actors. John Amos and Calvin Lockhart are rival gangsters who take the bets and then go after Cosby and Poitier. Denise Nicholas shines as Cosby's wife and the ever great Ossie Davis is the leader of the lodge.
Fans of the Cosby Show may be surprised by Cosby in these films. There is a great scene where Cosby and Nicholas appoint in a bit of "dirty" talk in a restaurant. This is not Cliff and Claire Huxtable!
Poitier directed these films and shows swell power. The scenes are staged well and the shots are never dull. It'southward a shame he didn't directly more.
This motion picture is worth it, if but for the scenes of Cosby trying to pass himself off as a gangster. His outfit has to be seen to be believed. Bank check this and Uptown Saturday Night and A Slice of the Activeness erstwhile.
12 out of 12 institute this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
well done, very funny
Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier play working class men who want to go rich. They come up up with $20,000 for a scheme, just $eighteen,000 of that comes from their order's edifice fund. The men take their wives to New Orleans and, while there, they see an opportunity in an inept boxer, played by Jimmie Walker, who has the opportunity to win the middleweight title. Poitier hypnotizes the boxer and makes him very confident, and the men pose as New York millionaires and place bets with a bookie (well played by John Amos) who later figures out what they did and wants to take reward of the state of affairs, possibly bringing down rival Biggie Smalls.
Cosby is his usual self, only hipper (especially when he dresses in wild outfits to pretend to be rich). Information technology'south a real pleasure to see Poitier in a role that you can laugh at, since most of his characters have been and then sophisticated. The 2 men together are bang-up, especially when they are trying to get out of jams. I especially enjoyed seeing Cosby pretend to be a big-time gangster while talking on the telephone. Walker, of form, was one of the all-time buffoons in 1970s TV, and he doesn't disappoint here. Even when his character is confident and talented, he still has that cartoonish quality virtually him.
Curtis Mayfield's music, with vocal performances by the Staples Singers, added a lot to the picture.
It wasn't quite a family movie, but information technology was quite clean compared to similar movies existence fabricated today, with very little cursing and non much to really object to.
I had a skilful time.
eleven out of 12 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Worthwhile, undemanding entertainment,..
July 2008 Update:
A sequel to "Uptown Sabbatum Night" in every real sense; though Cosby and Poitier play unlike characters it's the aforementioned guys in all but name, the picture show's title even a blatant reference to this fact. Though this didn't quite lucifer the box role of the one-time it'southward arguably slightly the better of the two films, admitting uneven in tone.
As a big fan of Poitier, it has to be said that he'south not every bit good a director as he is an thespian, and that his calorie-free entertainment cistron isn't equally developed as it could be. Even dressed upwardly in an outrageous pimp zoot accommodate he casts a staid presence, a straight, slightly potent foil to Cosby and a clash of styles against Jimmy Walker's cartoonish boxer.
Back in May 1999 when I posted my original review, I described this as a "sublime vehicle" and "extremely pleasing", giving it 7/x. I can merely conclude that I was fooling myself, viewing the film through youthful, Poitier-tinted sunglasses. Let'south Do It Again is a decent enough film, only lacks sophistication on any real level and is, at best, undemanding entertainment.
Two years later on this moving-picture show came out Cosby and Poitier would try it once more, with "A Piece Of The Action", after which Poitier would retire from acting and only make sporadic returns. Equally a trilogy to retire on, so information technology's good that Poitier left by putting smiles on people'south faces, fifty-fifty though comedy clearly isn't his thing in front of the camera. Indeed, after a stonefaced first one-half, Poitier indulges in somewhat desperate mugging throughout the second half of this film, illustrating that he had more success with comedy behind the photographic camera... three years after his retirement from acting he directed Stir Crazy.
Trivia about the film includes a cameo from George Foreman (then a yr deposed as heavyweight champion upon the picture'south release) and the inspiration for Biggie Smalls's nickname. Curtis Mayfield and the Staple Sisters add to a fine soundtrack that's almost as good as the sublime gospel in the first film of this unofficial trilogy.
7 out of 7 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Classic Motion-picture show In A Catamenia Where Filmmakers Should Not Do It Again
What is surprising is Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier didn't have an even more extensive directing career (at to the lowest degree 9 films to his credit) because "Let'due south Practice Information technology Once more" is deftly crafted and funny.
Believe it or not, that'south quite impressive in an era (1970s so-called Blaxploitation films) hard pressed to find textile suitable to African American actors and comedians. In fact by the mid 1970s a few "Let'south Do It Again" bandage members joined the NAACP in diggings Hollywood for the evident paucity of material and roles for talented blacks considering much of what emerged was exploitive stereotypes and had the upshot of mainstreaming distorted ethnic and racial images.
In this motion-picture show, nevertheless, a bearded Nib Cosby (Billy Foster), clean-shaven Poitier (Clyde Williams) squad upwards as do-skilful Atlanta fraternal order brothers who play the odds to "con" threatening criminal punks and so they could cheerfully give gambling winnings to a pet clemency. Of grade, they have to impossibly hypnotize Jimmy Walker'southward reluctant and unlikely os thin boxer (Bootney Farnsworth) enabling him to successfully fight heavier and craftier opponents; convince their beautiful merely reluctant wives to go in on the con and, after pulling off a preposterous megabucks "sucker bet" caper, escape the played mobsters by hoofing information technology through a serial of apartment buildings. In one of the cinema'southward longest and funniest foot chases always, the duo dashes through an unlocked apartment door running smack into a dining room non quite interrupting a family unit dinner. The folks seated around the dining table are incredulous for a quick moment and, well, maybe we should leave a few surprises.
The moving picture doesn't escape the "Mack" flamboyance of the decade, nor did it avoid the annoying 70s "wah-wah" disco soundtrack only it doesn't pander to the lowest mutual denominator evident in other movies whose stars were African American. On the other hand, performances by Denise Nicholas (Beth Foster), Calvin Lockhart, (Biggie Smalls) deliver a sense of dignity that would not accept emerged nether the easily of any lesser managing director in that era.
In the pre-Huxtable Cosby universe, a comic actor shines. Of course, Cosby had resisted such notions during his successful run of the NBC-Television set series, playing down and turning away Emmy nominations for All-time Actor. In the younger Cosby's personna, at that place is none of the self-mocking. He'south not playing a cuddly version of himself. He's perhaps funnier than annihilation he presented to the generation who grew up with the Huxtables and "Ghost Dad" (besides directed by Sidney Poitier), which makes it plausible for younger viewers to dust off this more than quarter-century former relic and go a kick out of what Poitier was able to practise with Timothy March and Richard Wesley's story and script.
Aside from non descending into the grouping of movies that fall under the category of 70s "exploitation flicks", there is no social comment here. "Let's Do It Again" volition requite us a grittier perchance funnier Cosby than anything Generation Xers are likely to recollect. If you want to escape, indulge in popcorn and have a laugh, this is a fun film.
11 out of xi plant this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
The funniest movie I ever saw
I've seen this movie along with Uptown Saturday Night countless times and, this one existence the ameliorate of the 2, and I withal crack up. Bill & Sidney are great together and information technology's a shame they oasis't collaborated since the 70's.
Jimmy Walker is simply "down correct NAYISTEE!! with laughs".
I'm waiting for the DVD.
10 out of 10 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Allow's Do It Again and Again and Again
This movie was brilliant, funny, and had a dynamite soundtrack.
Every bit I was watching I kept waiting for the movie to devolve into a joke. Maybe because it looked low budget, perhaps because Jimmy Walker was in it being his same hamming self, or maybe because it was done in 1975. Whatever the reason I was steadily anticipating failure and delightfully it never happened. It remained fresh, funny, and intelligent throughout.
Now, I tin can't conclude this review without mentioning one of the characters: Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart).
"Biggie Smalls is the illest Your manner is played out like that "Whatchu talkin' tour Willis"
The only Biggie Smalls I'd ever known was the Notorious B.I.M. I had no idea that he borrowed/stole/appropriated the proper name Biggie Smalls from this moving picture. That makes one more than reason this movie was worthwhile.
3 out of 3 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Funny then , funny now
I hadn't seen this movie since it came out. It was a pleasant and very funny surprise then and it still is. As others have said it's Bill Cosby's moving picture and he makes the almost of information technology. Portier shows a somewhat more annoying side to his personality, doing more than his off-white share of mugging but that and the cliché gangster/boxer motif bated or perhaps because of information technology this picture is very very funny. Jimmy J.J. Walker steals the motion-picture show every bit a very unlikely middleweight boxer. Denise Nicholas is beautiful and sexy and there'southward a score that could be sampled to death to brand a new funky soundtrack for a party. I don't understand the low rating but and then comedies generally become lower ratings for some reason.But don't let that discourage you. My general criteria for a one-act is if information technology makes me express mirth out loud on at least three occasions and then information technology gets an automatic vii. I give this one an 8.
7 out of 8 establish this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Permit's Practise It Again
Cosby and Poitier shine in this one-act/adventure near two brothers who try to pull off a con in the hope of raising money for a new temple. The results are perfect with both raising lots of laughs in the tradition of the corking Amos 'n' Andy. A great buddy picture!
five out of vii establish this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
The guys from Uptown Saturday dark are back but this fourth dimension they are trying to find a get rich quick scheme to enhance coin
This time Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby play two friends who vest to a group and were supposed to be raising coin. They terminate upward trying to railroad train a boxer to shell the current champ by hypnotizing him. They end upwardly getting their wives involved and Denise Nicholas has the best line of all - "Will y'all tell that girl to get that affair out of my face before I make her eat it?" THey are so over the top that it makes information technology fifty-fifty better. The supporting bandage is pretty much the aforementioned equally the previous movie. If nothing else, Sidney Poitier is keeping a lot of black actors employed! Once y'all get into it, y'all will truly relish it. Jimmy Walker isn't even the best part of the picture.
6 out of 6 constitute this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Dyn-O-mite...not so much...
Warning: Spoilers
The follow-upwards to UPTOWN Saturday Night, Permit'South DO IT Once again re-teams Nib Cosby and Sidney Poitier as a couple of lodge members determined to save their club past hypnotizing a scrawny boxer into becoming a fight champ. TV-star Jimmie Walker plays the boxer and he has about as much personality equally a TV-dinner. The laughs comes not via Walker, although his grapheme's name is priceless, or the idiotic plot, but almost unmarried-handedly from Cosby, who'due south given one of his rare chances to pause loose in a motion picture. It'southward a shame he's spent the last 20 5 years squandering his comic sensibility on vapid sitcoms. Poitier directed, the funky music score is past Curtis Mayfield and the excellent championship song is performed by the Staple Singers.
2 out of 3 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Always proficient for laughs...
Although non as good every bit its predecessor, "Uptown Saturday Nighttime", this sequel always provides some skillful laughs, especially if you overlook the broad-eyed Amos & Andy style interim of the principals (the worst perpetrator, oddly plenty, being the typically stoic Sidney Poitier). Minstrel-esque hamming for the camera aside, this one is just patently fun to watch. Calvin Lockhart and John Amos are bully comedic villains, almost playing their roles direct amidst the tom-foolery surrounding them.
Every bit an African-American who grew upwards in the lxx's, this and all the other Blaxploitation films provides a nostalgic, although somewhat exaggerated, look at life in the Black customs. Put "Let'due south Exercise It Again" on a triple-neb with "Car Launder" and "Cooley Loftier" and you'll have an entertaining blast from the past.
4 out of 5 plant this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Classic Movie In A Period Where Filmmakers Should Not Do It Again
What is surprising is Oscar-winning player Sidney Poitier didn't have an fifty-fifty more extensive directing career (at least 9 films to his credit) because "Allow's Do Information technology Over again" is deftly crafted and funny.
Believe it or not, that'due south quite impressive in an era (1970s then-called Blaxploitation films) hard pressed to find material suitable to African American actors and comedians. In fact past the mid 1970s a few "Permit's Do Information technology Once again" cast members joined the NAACP in blasting Hollywood for the evident paucity of textile and roles for talented blacks because much of what emerged was exploitive stereotypes and had the consequence of mainstreaming distorted indigenous and racial images.
In this movie, however, a bearded Bill Cosby (Billy Foster), make clean-shaven Poitier (Clyde Williams) team up as practice-skillful Atlanta fraternal guild brothers who play the odds to "con" threatening criminal punks then they could cheerfully requite gambling winnings to a pet clemency. Of course, they take to impossibly hypnotize Jimmy Walker's reluctant and unlikely bone thin boxer (Bootney Farnsworth) enabling him to successfully fight heavier and craftier opponents; convince their beautiful simply reluctant wives to become in on the con and, after pulling off a preposterous megabucks "sucker bet" caper, escape the played mobsters by hoofing it through a serial of apartment buildings. In one of the cinema's longest and funniest foot chases always, the duo dashes through an unlocked apartment door running smack into a dining room not quite interrupting a family dinner. The folks seated around the dining table are incredulous for a quick moment and, well, maybe we should leave a few surprises.
The movie doesn't escape the "Mack" flamboyance of the decade, nor did it avoid the annoying 70s "wah-wah" disco soundtrack but information technology doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator evident in other movies whose stars were African American. On the other mitt, performances past Denise Nicholas (Beth Foster), Calvin Lockhart, (Biggie Smalls) evangelize a sense of dignity that would not have emerged under the hands of any lesser director in that era.
In the pre-Huxtable Cosby universe, a comic player shines. Of course, Cosby had resisted such notions during his successful run of the NBC-TV series, playing down and turning away Emmy nominations for Best Histrion. In the younger Cosby's personna, there is none of the self-mocking. He'southward not playing a cuddly version of himself. He'south perhaps funnier than anything he presented to the generation who grew up with the Huxtables and "Ghost Dad" (also directed by Sidney Poitier), which makes it plausible for younger viewers to dust off this more than quarter-century old relic and get a boot out of what Poitier was able to do with Timothy March and Richard Wesley'southward story and script.
Bated from not descending into the group of movies that fall nether the category of 70s "exploitation flicks", at that place is no social comment here. "Let's Do It Once more" will give us a grittier maybe funnier Cosby than anything Generation Xers are likely to remember. If you desire to escape, indulge in popcorn and accept a laugh, this is a fun moving picture.
2 out of 2 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Funny calorie-free-hearted comedy
I recollect really seeing "Allow's Exercise Information technology Once again" in the theater with a friend when I was very immature, and I also think the audience (more often than not kids) laughing similar crazy. Sure plenty, having just watched this moving picture again for the first time in 30 years, it holds up as a decent enough one-act total of familiar Tv and motion picture faces to anyone who was a 70's kid.
Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby are fantastic and have great chemistry, no incertitude about information technology. This leads to many funny scenes, such as them hiding behind the couch in the woman's apartment. Cosby, however, is a little more the star here, and gets to showboat on his own a bit more than than Poitier. The dirty-talk scene in the eating place with Cosby and his very hot wife is hilarious.
There are even more hot girls to look at also Cosby'southward wife, such equally the one in the beginning at Cosby's work (with an astonishing pair of legs), and the molls of both gangsters. Jimmy Walker is decent, and the pic thankfully keeps his schtick at its useful minimum. His dad on Skilful Times, John Amos, is fine as a tough-guy gangster. Ozzie Davis, practiced as he is, bores the viewer with his character, which is a necessary character for a few scenes but who no 1 really wants to run into. And Calvin Lockhart is always fun to lookout man in anything he does.
I'm surprised that no one told Cosby that with that beard, he looks 55 years old. This won't exist a film that you lot take echo viewings with, merely it's a skillful lxx's comedy without a dubiousness.
3 out of 6 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Fantastic flick
This motion-picture show was great from start to finish. I really don't empathize why there are but 17 user reviews as I write this. The acting was first rate. Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier were excellent, and Calvin Lockhart and John Amos were very adept in their respective roles. This is non to take abroad from the residual of the cast.
Sidney Poitier did a fine task with the directing. Curtis Mayfield wrote a outset rate motion-picture show score for this movie, including the hit "Let's Do Information technology Again".
It was a funny movie also. Generally, when I similar a one-act, it is more than for the plot in general as opposed to the actual comedy, only this fabricated me laugh out loud quite several times.
But the biggest matter? It was just a well written, CLEVER script that kept you wanting more than. When you lot accept boxing, gambling, underdogs, and hypnotiism with good writing, its a cant miss. I take seen information technology at least a dozen times, and never tire of information technology.
ane out of 1 plant this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Classic of classics
I watched this with my son the other day. I've seen the movie about 10 times now (in on my 50s and my son who'due south but turned 21 take never seen this moving picture before. So when I suggested that he watch it with me, plain he was reluctant to say the to the lowest degree. He was saying that he don't similar to watch them quondam people movies. Anyway halfway through the film and he was glued to his seat and by the end of the movie he was saying "at present that'south a cool movie dad". I smiled maxim this kind of films never grow old. Nuff said.
two out of 4 institute this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
My Professor!
I'm a Dramatic Writing educatee at NYU and Richard Wesley is our chair! I took his Film Story Analysis form this semester which was a lot of fun (movies every week!) and today was the final class and so he showed this film of his. (Nosotros all stayed by the terminate of course to finish it.) Haha I loved it so much and couldn't even tell it was from the 70's. Such timeless humor. I also didn't know that Richard invented the name "Biggie Smalls" which was likewise cool. All twelvemonth he showed us films in order to show how professionals work their screenplays, but he saved the best for last! Thanks Wesley for your awesome movie and form! See you lot tomorrow! Haha.
2 out of 3 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
First-class
A pure classic. Pecker Cosby e'er keeps the laughs and storytelling coming. Information technology's no departure for this moving picture. Oh, and it doesn't hurt to have the beautiful Denise Nicholas either. Very funny and enjoyable moving picture. Put it in your drove if you are a true moving picture buff.
1 out of 3 establish this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Excellent and vastly underrated one-act. Walker fantastic.
Jimmy Walker has never been given the proper acclaim for his comedic talents. Lookout this flick for proof of the previous sentence. He is a treat every bit Bootney Farnsworth. I've seen this film 7-8 times and I still laugh out loud every fourth dimension Walker is on screen. And to pinnacle it all off, yous get on of the best performances of Pecker Cosby'south career and a corking, though subtle, portrayal of a church building elder/hypnotist.
1 out of 1 establish this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Worst Player Always!
I take never seen someone similar this that tin can't human activity! Jimmy JJ Walker is the worst Actor ever!
0 out of ii plant this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073282/reviews
Post a Comment for "Bill Cosby Lets Do It Again Glasses"