Black Dynamite

As I said earlier in the week, I intended to make my obsession post this week about Black Dynamite. It wasn’t until I actually looked into it that I realized it was not only an animated series, but it’s also a movie, one that though styled as if in the 60s or 70s actually came out in 2009. It even has cheesy moments, where they do a close up of a woman’s face and she’s smoking but when she exhales there’s no smoke, and her cigarette isn’t lit.

I believe the film was meant to be a comedy when it was made, and it’s certainly as comedic as possible – not to mention creative. It’s done quite a bit differently than a lot of old kung-fu movies, but still retains much of the classic feel of kung-fu films.

The tv series, however, I felt was a little more straight-forward in their comedy. The film wasn’t exactly subtle, but the series went to a whole new level of extreme. They say ninja instead of nigger, have Michael Jackson being an extreme abusive in the first ten minutes of the series (later revealed to be half alien), and so many strange plot twists that by the end of the first episode my head was reeling.  Some moments in both the film and the series are so genuinely creepy that it was hilarious, and both were pretty fantastic to watch. I was mostly unable to actually finish the black dynamite series due to wind knocking out my internet a few times, but I’m looking forward to being able to finish it.