Playlist: Black Dynamite

Damn, this is one righteous blaxploitation homage, suckas. I say homage because, one, I'm pretentious, and two, parody calls to mind too many goofy hack jobs like all those Scary Movies. The difference is that Black Dynamite, like Shaun of the Dead or even Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, has fun with, instead of making fun of, the source material. There's a degree of reverence present and not just a collection of cheap sight gags or topical jokes that are DOA by the time they come out on DVD.

Director Scott Sanders comes to this with really no track record, but he and co-writer/star Michael Jai White show deft hands at capturing that parodic comedic balance. We get the best of the genre--pimps, hos, kung fu--in all their ridiculous splendor. The climax? Why a nunchucks duel with Richard Nixon, of course.

Now, in the words of The Man himself (Black Dynamite, not Tricky Dick): Shh, mama, you gonna wake up the rest of the bitches.