Pootie Tang (2001)
"Too cool for words."
ThumbScore
👍 62%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 29%
(RT: 27%, MC: 31) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Lance Crouther as Pootie Tang
Mario Joyner as Lacey
Is Pootie Tang good?
It's divisive. 62% audience score, estimated from 174 TMDB ratings. Critics scored it lower at 29%, but audiences disagreed.
Overview
Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young Black children of America, supatime. Wikipedia ↗
