Siskel & Ebert (TV Series)

Crazy/Beautiful/Baby Boy/Pootie Tang/Lost and Delirious/The Crimson Rivers/Himalaya (2001)

Roger Ebert: Self - Host

Quotes 

• Roger Ebert : [reviewing "Pootie Tang"]  Y'know, I think it's a lot worse than you give it credit for. I really think this is hardly a movie at all. If you take out the opening credits and the endless end credits with the music video under them, this movie is barely seventy minutes long.

  Richard Roeper : Yeah.

  Roger Ebert : And I noticed in those endless end credits that the end credits and the opening credits were directed by a different person than the person who directed the movie, and I'm gonna propose to you: This movie was never finished.

  Richard Roeper : Really.

  Roger Ebert : This movie does not feel like it's ready to be released. It feels like there are missing scenes, missing pay-offs, missing introductions, and basically, a missing movie.

  [Richard laughs] 

  Roger Ebert : This is just like... outtakes, these are like the deleted scenes, and they're holding the movie back from us.

  Richard Roeper : We got the second disc of the DVD without getting the original.

  Roger Ebert : Yes, it's not merely bad, it's incompetent.

  Richard Roeper : If you DO go to see "Pootie Tang", go out and get some Junior Mints, come back, you won't have missed anything. Maybe go check on your car, call the kids, see how they're doing, you won't have missed a thing at all.

  [laughs] 

  Roger Ebert : That... why, why didn't you tell me that before the movie started?