Fifty Shades of Black

At a minimum, a parody should be funnier than the film it's sending up (...).

Cette parodie à la sauce afro-américaine de Fifty Shades of Grey s'avère paresseuse, verbomotrice et agressivement vulgaire, la marque de commerce de la vedette Marlon Wayans.

At best, it's dull and boring. At worst, it just feels mean-spirited, hateful, and so much lower than the lowest-common denominator.

But the funniest bit involves a particularly sadistic brand of torture that he inflicts on Hannah: reading aloud to her from the book Fifty Shades of Grey. She quite rightly screams in protest, as should anyone forced to watch this movie.

Parody of Fifty Shades of Grey has nothing to say — funny or otherwise — about the S&M book and movie phenomenon

This third go-round of the sweetly disarming martial-arts saga blends visual pizzazz with goofball humor.

Between all the gags involving prosthetic penises (...), between all the tasteless racial jokes, random pop-culture references and wacky-kinky sexual hijinks, Fifty Shades of Black actually may have something of substance on its meandering mind.