What is surprising is Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier didn't accept an fifty-fifty more extensive directing career (at least 9 films to his credit) because "Let'southward Do It Again" is deftly crafted and funny.
Believe information technology or not, that'south quite impressive in an era (1970s so-called Blaxploitation films) hard pressed to find fabric suitable to African American actors and comedians. In fact by the mid 1970s a few "Let's Do It Once more" cast members joined the NAACP in blasting Hollywood for the axiomatic paucity of material and roles for talented blacks because much of what emerged was exploitive stereotypes and had the effect of mainstreaming distorted indigenous and racial images.
In this pic, however, a bearded Neb Cosby (Billy Foster), clean-shaven Poitier (Clyde Williams) team upwardly as do-expert Atlanta congenial order brothers who play the odds to "con" threatening criminal punks so they could cheerfully give gambling winnings to a pet charity. Of course, they have to impossibly hypnotize Jimmy Walker'southward reluctant and unlikely bone thin boxer (Bootney Farnsworth) enabling him to successfully fight heavier and craftier opponents; convince their beautiful but reluctant wives to get in on the con and, later on pulling off a preposterous megabucks "sucker bet" caper, escape the played mobsters by hoofing it through a series of apartment buildings. In one of the cinema'southward longest and funniest human foot chases ever, the duo dashes through an unlocked apartment door running smack into a dining room not quite interrupting a family unit dinner. The folks seated around the dining table are incredulous for a quick moment and, well, maybe we should leave a few surprises.
The film doesn't escape the "Mack" flamboyance of the decade, nor did it avoid the annoying 70s "wah-wah" disco soundtrack but it doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator axiomatic in other movies whose stars were African American. On the other mitt, performances by Denise Nicholas (Beth Foster), Calvin Lockhart, (Biggie Smalls) deliver a sense of nobility that would not take emerged under the hands of any lesser managing director in that era.
In the pre-Huxtable Cosby universe, a comic player shines. Of course, Cosby had resisted such notions during his successful run of the NBC-Television receiver series, playing down and turning away Emmy nominations for All-time Histrion. In the younger Cosby's personna, at that place is none of the self-mocking. He'southward not playing a cuddly version of himself. He's peradventure funnier than annihilation he presented to the generation who grew up with the Huxtables and "Ghost Dad" (besides directed past Sidney Poitier), which makes it plausible for younger viewers to dust off this more quarter-century old relic and get a kick out of what Poitier was able to practice with Timothy March and Richard Wesley's story and script.
Aside from non descending into the group of movies that fall under the category of 70s "exploitation flicks", there is no social annotate here. "Let's Do It Over again" will give us a grittier maybe funnier Cosby than anything Generation Xers are likely to remember. If yous want to escape, indulge in popcorn and have a express joy, this is a fun film.
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