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Fifty Shades of Black
2016 92 min United States of America R 18+
★3.4
Romance, Comedy
Director: Michael Tiddes
🎭 Based on
«Fifty Shades of Grey»
Trailers
Description
An inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship.
Budget:
$20M
US Gross:
$11.69M
Worldwide:
$21.16M
Starring
Marlon Wayans
Actor
Kali Hawk
Actor
Fred Willard
Actor
Awards
Razzie Awards 2017
— Worst Sequel, Remake or Ripoff
Razzie Awards 2017
— Worst Supporting Actress
Key opinion
Fifty Shades of Black is widely regarded as a low-brow, formulaic spoof that struggles to transcend the mediocrity of its source material. While a small segment of the audience appreciates its commitment to raunchy humor and the leads' chemistry, most critics lament the degradation of the parody genre into vulgarity and stale stereotypes.
| Humor | The film leans heavily on crude, vulgar humor and obscene jokes that many critics find tiresome or offensive. | |
| Screenplay | The screenplay is viewed as a rote, uninspired copy of the original film's structure rather than a clever subversion of its tropes. | |
| Acting | Opinions on the lead performances are divided; some praise the palpable chemistry between Marlon Wayans and Kali Hawk, while others find their acting strained or unconvincing. | |
| Originality | The film functions as a guilty pleasure for some who prefer it to the original’s pretension, yet it is dismissed by others as a significant decline in the quality of the modern parody genre. |