If my top 10 list for the year wasn't already complete, this would definitely jump in there. This was the funniest movie of 2009 for so many reasons.Black Dynamite (Michael Jai White) is one bad ass dude, hellbent on bringing down the man. After his brother Jimmy is killed by the heads of a drug organization, Dynamite needs to get his revenge on the turkeys who committed the crime. He spares no expense and interrogates every witness or potential lead in his own way. He needs the answers. His old CIA and Vietnam partner O'Leary recruits Dynamite to get him CIA credentials once again. As he is pursuing the person who killed his brother, he finds out the problem goes beyond Jimmy. The drug kingpin is funneling a new drug into the community and worse, into the schools and orphanages. The drug: Smack. Growing up an orphan, Dynamite cannot stand this and now he's madder than ever.
This is a blaxploitation movie that sends up and parodies blaxploitation movies from the 70s. From the bad acting to the missed lines to the visual continuity errors to the bad fight sequences. When it screwed up, it did it on purpose and that made it so much funnier. White was unbelievably funny as the all-too-serious Black Dynamite and it just worked to perfection. Arsenio Hall, Cedric Yarbrough, Brian McKnight and Tommy Davidson all showed up in hilarious cameos as either pimps or pushers. I cannot recommend this movie enough.
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