Fifty Shades of Black

Name: Fifty Shades of Black
Director: Michael Tiddes
Released: 2016

Synopsis

An inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship.

60
Los Angeles Times
"Black” foregoes too much scene-setting, chronology and logic to stand completely on its own. As a piece of cultural criticism, however, it painstakingly eviscerates nearly every scene in “Grey” and skewers latent sexism, classism and ludicrous sexual innuendoes, as well as the original’s numerous plot holes.
58
Entertainment Weekly
The film manages to be surprisingly subversive with its humor.
42
The A.V. Club
When Wayans allows himself to deviate from his formula there are a few effective moments of un-self-conscious slapstick.
40
The New York Times
As with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull’s-eyes arrive only intermittently.
38
Slant Magazine
An aimless, if sporadically clever, parody that tirelessly conceives of human sexuality as punchlines for its shortsighted cultural ribbings.
38
RogerEbert.com
Mostly, Fifty Shades of Black is exactly what you expect it will be. It hits all the notes of its source material, only it amps them up, and it seems to get the inherent absurdity of this premise even more than Sam Taylor-Johnson’s movie did.
33
Consequence
Marlon Wayans is clearly getting off on the gags, but the lazy, hard humor, and elastic joke-making eventually has a numbing effect.
30
Variety
At a minimum, a parody should be funnier than the film it’s sending up, but Fifty Shades of Black, a quick-and-dirty riff on last year’s S&M romance “Fifty Shades of Grey,” falls a laugh or two short of even that low standard.