Fifty Shades Of Black

FIFTY SHADES OF BLACK

Director : Michael Tiddes

Year : 2016

Genre : Comedy

Rating :1/2*

With 'Fifty Shades Of Black', writer and producer Marlon Wayans had one very simple task - to make fun of the incredibly overrated and offensively awful 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' phenomena. So the fact that Sam Taylor Johnson's 2015 film is (albeit unintentionally) funnier than this comedic graveyard goes to show just how badly he has failed that most simple of objectives. Following the basic plot of E.L James' erotic drama, Fifty Shades Of Blacks sees Kali Hawk's timid and clumsy Hannah Steel fall under the spell of Marlon Wayan's billionaire sadist Christian Black who introduces her to a world of BDSM and terrible penis jokes. As is the case with every Wayans product, 'Fifty Shades Of Black' continually settles for the easiest and laziest of punchlines; with each joke, usually centreing on toilets or certain parts of the male anatomy, falling flat on its face thanks to a lack of both comedic timing and reeking unoriginality. Throw in a couple of poorly executed parodies of 'Whiplash' and 'Magic Mike' as well as a frighteningly misjudged appearance by British legend Jane Seymour as Wayans' racially insensitive mother and you have a desperately unfunny mess of a movie that was given the softest of targets to rip apart and didn't even manage to cause a scratch.