As a genre I really like blaxsploitation and even the cheapest and most haphazardly thrown together for me are usually fun and entertaining for me. This entry for the genre however, Lady Cocoa is no fun and pretty much all around a huge pile of crap. The leading lady Lola Falana might be easy on the eyes, but comes across as super annoying and unlikeable from the starting gate. She is to testify against her pimp boyfriend and is protected by two cops that must babysit her and spend most of the film in a hotel room. Everything about the movie is pretty low quality, although I liked Luchi De Jesus's score, who also did music on one of my favorite blaxsploitation movies Black Belt Jones, which I would recommend to watch instead of this. However, I hated Lady Cocoa's theme song "Pop Goes The Weasel", which is almost as grating and obnoxious as the title character. This film is very low on action and as I stated before very low quality. Lola Falana does the opposite of what someone like Pam Grier would have done with a movie like this. Pam would have elevated this material and made it more interesting. Lola Falana makes this already boring drama just unwatchable. Thumbs way down on Lady Cocoa.
Review of Lady Cocoa
