Let's Do It Again (1975) (2024)

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• Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🇵🇸 ★★★½

  Disillusionment In Sun-Drenched 1970s American New Wave Cinema: A Watching Brief

  40th Street Black is a BRILLIANT name for a boxer.

  I was slightly suspicious of watching Let's Do It Again because of the boxing theme the poster suggest and the fact that the plot surrounds fixing bouts. It falls under the old not being a fan of sports films thing. There was also another reason I was suspicious of it but I honestly couldn't think what that might have been....

  As it turns out, boxing doesn't play that much of a part in this film anyway, which was a relief. Also because I don't like boxing at all. Let's Do It Again is a light-hearted crime caper where a…

• Review by Isaiah The Classic Historian ★★★½ 1

  The second in a trilogy of films starring Cosby and the late great Sidney Poitier, it was a fun watch from the start to the end.

  While there are some moments that would either catch off guard and sometimes predictable. And others would drag a little like the chase sequence near the end. The other aspects of the film make up for it through very good jokes and performances. Not to mention a nice use of locations throughout the entire film and has a nice jazzy score as well.

• Review by Dale Nauertz ★★★★

  I liked "Uptown Saturday Night", the first Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier collaboration directed by Poitier, but I think I liked "Let's Do It Again" even more, to be honest.

  It's a lot sillier. Poitier plays a milkman who has a gift for hypnosis (it's wonderfully ridiculous). Cosby plays a factory worker. Both of them belong to the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka (think a more Afro-centric variation on the local Elks Lodge). Cosby is the treasurer, Poitier is an elder, and Ossie Davis is the sort of leader/preacher of this organization. But there isn't enough money in the coffers to pay for the new building that the lodge needs to keep going so Cosby comes up with an idea to make…

• Review by Johnny Pomatto ★★★

  After begrudgingly enjoying the antics of Poitier and Cosby in "Uptown Saturday Night," I thought I'd see how they fared in the sequel. While it's missing some of the energy and humor that was brought to the first in the guise of Richard Pryor and Flip Wilson, this one is just about as entertaining, even if it suffers from the same over-length and tedium of the first. I figured that the title was in reference to pulling another zany scheme like in the first film, but it actually seems to refer to the fact that they do the same thing twice in this one movie. I compared the duo in the first film to Ralph and Ed from "The Honeymooners,"…

• Review by Michael Gladis ★★½

  Bill you stay the hell away from these women

• Review by Dawson Joyce ★★★★

  Uptown Saturday Night was a lot of fun, but its spiritual successor Let's Do It Again may be even better, as the late great Sidney Poitier once again makes for a wonderfully charismatic lead — and shows he's just as skilled in the director's chair as well — and it benefits from a terrific supporting cast and a groovy soundtrack.

  It's a shame Bill Cosby is in here though...

• Review by Kirk Kowalkowski ★★★½ 2

  I was today years old where I learned that The Notorious B.I.G. took his Biggie Smalls alias from a movie- and that THIS is that movie.

  Comedy isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Sidney Poitier, but he shows chops here both as as a director and actor. He works great with Cosby who, despite the knowledge we have now, is doing here exactly what made him the biggest comedy star of his era. (I will say, his character has a few horndog moments that come off as innocent in the context of the film but will definitely make modern viewers cringe.) John Amos is also great being John Amos as mob boss Kansas City…

• Review by benny booger ★★★★½

  Another goofy, exceedingly fun flick from Poitier, who I really gotta admit knows how to do a comedy better than anyone like Apatow or their ilk. I think I like it a little more than Uptown Saturday Night, in part because the soundtrack by Mayfield and the Staple Sisters rips, and the supporting cast is brilliant: Denise Nicholas, Calvin Lockhart, John Amos, Julius Harris (❤️), Val Avery, and others. Absolutely wild and extremely enjoyable.

• Review by EudoraFletcher ★★½

  Black cinema from the 1970s. Two rasals make a trip with their wives to New Orleans. The city is being used as a background pretty much ok, mainly the tourist spots are being shown.
  The movie itself isn´t really so great, especially one shouldn´t expect any kind of a senseful plot, but at least there are a few good scenes. If you lilke the actors this movie is watchable, but you don´t really miss anything not having watched it.
  What makes me sad is that I don´t like Bill Cosby anymore. Everytime I see him I´m reminded that he has been found guilty for sexual abuse in several cases. And since he played the role of the good daddy so many times, this just doesn´t go together well.

  
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• Review by Justin Mory ★★★½

  Second mid-seventies black-urban comedy from director/co-star Sidney Poitier, following Uptown Saturday Night (1974) and preceding A Piece of the Action (1977), plays its seemingly unimaginative title for all its more suggestive worth courtesy of Curtis Mayfield's silky smooth vocal embellishments on any and all sexually-tinged lyrical tangents arising therefrom. Outta Sight! Mayfield's score is otherwise performed by Gospel R&B favorites The Staple Singers, lending a well-worn groove to this second go-round with Poitier and Bill Cosby, this time as a milkman and forklift driver from Atlanta pitting their wits against New Orleans gangsters Kansas City Mack (John Amos) and the slicker, leaner, and even better-named Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart). Broader and sillier but just as enjoyable as Uptown, Poitier and…

• Review by Cameron Wayne Johnson ★★★

  Sorry, Alexander Hall, but your musical remake of "The Awful Truth" is ironically not getting its own remake. Clearly, the experience of "Uptown Saturday Night" was a lot more fun for Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby than their characters if only the actors are showing up for the pretty-much-sequel. They're playing two other blue-collar best friends, Billy Foster and Clyde Williams, who fear that their Atlanta fraternal lodge the Sons and Daughters of Shaka is about to go under. In order to raise funds to save it, they dust off the old hustle of using Clyde's hypnosis abilities to manipulate boxing matches they bet on. They then hook up with Jimmie Walker's Bootney Farnsworth as their seemingly puny fighter out…

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  goofy and fun. not a cosby fan tho.