I've always been a fan of the Wayans brothers but appreciate that there is little middle ground with most people falling into two catagories of either loving or hating their stuff. There is also a lot of discussion regarding the content (especially racial) of their films. All this aside, they have found a successful formula so can't really blamed for running for it. Hollywood has done it constantly for years now and few complain about that.

I actually watched this before watching the film that this parodies. I'm unsure if that was the right thing to do or not, but if you have not seen Fifty Shades of Grey, this should still satisfy their fans, or fans or downright silly and extreme sexual humour (with plenty of racial stereotypes thrown in as usual). The film never lets up with the absurd jokes and senarios and if you have seen Grey, this pretty much parodies that film scene for scene (even down to the dialogue at times).

Marlon Wayans plays Christian Black, a billionaire businessman who has made his money the way most black entrepreneurs have. No not through real estate, but drugs. Kali Hawke plays Steale, the niaeve and shy young woman who Christian quickly becomes obsessed with. Unless you have been living under a rock or in the middle of the rainforest, I'm sure by now most people are aware of the content of Shades and how much controvery and critisism both the books and the film have received.

The jokes here and dumb, silly, slapstick, crude and sexual in nature, playing largely on the BDSM content. A lot of these jokes miss, a lot are funny if you leave your brain down the road before watching. I really do not understand the critisim this particular parody has recieved though. Wayons does what he does, and while of late his acting and writing may not be up to what it once was, you should know what to expect from one of his films by now. Why watch and then compain about the offensive humour? I thinksome people like to moan for the sake of hearing their own voices.

To sum up, this is not a good film, but it does have its funny moments and is not a film to anylise in great detail but to watch, giggle, facepalm and then forget. If you're a fan of Wayans and of crude sexual jokes then give this a try but don't be expecting any great comical genius from it.

The Sage's Rating: 6/10

I find it strange that Marlon Wayans found the need to parody what is already hands down the funnest movie of 2015. Does a bad movie, really need a parody? Seems redundant, but they did it.

50 shades of black has some decent jokes that poke fun at how outrageous 50 Shades of Grey is (although my favorite bit was one that parodied Whiplash with Florence Henderson playing a music teacher training young boys to use their "instruments"), but the laughs are not constant enough through the entire movie to justify the money spent.

It's good that Wanyans has no problem making light of himself, cause it's those skits that made for the most laugh out loud experience , but he also has no problem making a joke at someone else's expense. I probability would not care if the jokes were funny. There recent though, with a joke about the 2016 presidential campaign thrown in the mix.

It's packed with enough laughs to get something out of it, but the material used to make this was too weak itself for this movie to be all that good.

I saw "Fifty Shades of Black", starring Marlon Wayans-The Heat, White Chicks; Kali Hawk-Bridesmaids, Couples retreat and Affion Crockett-The Wedding Ringer, Never Back Down.

In case you could not tell from the title, this is a parody of '50 Shades of Grey'. Marlon plays the wealthy business man that tries to seduce the innocent young girl, Kali, into his world of sexual romper room. Affion plays Marlon's rather 'talented' brother, and when I say 'talented', I mean with the ladies. There is a scene where Affion has just finished satisfying a lady and is nude as he walks by the coffee table, knocking things to the floor with his.....appendage. The movie is good and bad; some jokes are funny but most are just silly as they seem to be trying too hard for a laugh. There are a few cameos. I remember seeing Jane Seymour, Florence Henderson, Michael Epps and Fred Willard. I guess it depends on how much you like this type of humor; it's not for everyone. Marlon is a co-writer of the movie. There is a lot of graphic language and nudity, and I have nothing against nudity, but here, there is more of the male kind and not enough of the female kind. It's rated "R" for language and sexual content-including nudity-and has a running time of 1 hour & 32 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD. It would be alright, as a rental, if you are a fan. Otherwise, you might want to just skip it, entirely.