Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby

Back in the day, when Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, Issac Hayes, and Pam Grier were stickin' it to the Man, Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby collaborated on three buddy comedies that offered urban ...( read more  read more... )audiences an alternative to private dicks, sex machines, and bad muthas. The Uptown Saturday Nightstars re-team for an "outtasite" scam involving hypnosis, a hopeless beanpole boxer (Jimmie Good Times Walker), and two rival kingpins. Though in fashion and patois Let's Do It Again is a candidate for the '70s time capsule, it does hold up better than most of its more militant blaxploitation brethren. Poitier, the straight man, and Cosby, working his improvisational mojo, are a great comedy team. Worth the price of purchase alone is the sight of these icons decked out in flamboyant Mack Daddy duds to impress their marks, Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Curtis Mayfield's score, with vocals by the Staples Singers, is also good for the soul. --Donald Liebenson

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PG, 113 min.

Directed by: Sidney Poitier

Release Date: October 11, 1975

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DVD Release Date: January 13, 2004

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  • July 3, 2008
    The best Poitier and Cosby teaming. Hilarious.
  • July 9, 2009
    Cosby and Poitier are a great combination of funny.
  • May 29, 2009
    my all time favourite movie!!!
  • December 27, 2008
    Out of the 3 movies that Poitier and Cosby were in together ,this is my favorite. Very Good cast and the Staple Singers along with Curtis Mayfield provided a great soundtrack for this classic also. Watch with any of your friends and family.
  • October 20, 2008
    Sidney Poitier is a great actor, but I just can't buy him in a comedy. His best work has always been intensely dramatic, and he's most famous (and rightly, most acclaimed) for films that have cast him in the role of "angry black man". Watching Poitier goofing around with Bill Cos...( read more)by is like watching Tina Fey playing Lady Macbeth. It just doesn't hold water.
  • July 8, 2008
    Love this movie classic
  • June 21, 2008
    This movie is hilarious
  • June 9, 2008
    One of the most funniest movies I have seen, plus the soundtrack is off the hook!
  • February 22, 2008
    Cosby & Poitier at it again. Laughs abound in this sequel. The music by Curtis Mayfield and the Staple Singers is old school at its best.

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