Ossie Davis Lets Do It Again

Let's Do It Again

It's the same two dudes from "Uptown Saturday Night"...but this time they're back with kid dyn-o-mite!

Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.

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Le coup à refaire, Aconteceu Outra Vez, Mas Que Grandes Vigaristas, Dos tramposos con suerte, Kalabalik i gangstervärlden, Huijarit vauhdissa, Dynamit i handsken, Tuumasta toimeen

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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…
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…
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.
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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Bill you stay the hell away from these women
I didn't know Sidney directed it, but it's kind of weird to see bill Cosby eyeing Down a girl in the first scene where we know what happens years later, that is criminal to see nowadays knowing what happens. I didn't really like the first movie, but since i started this I might as well finish it. I just found it boring for the most part, I just don't find anything funny and not a good hang out movie either. No stars in the background for me, they mention biggie smalls before biggie smalls.
this movie was good when it started out as a buddy trip for a big bet, but then it turns into a movie about magical hypnosis was the perfect twist
The sequel to Uptown Saturday Night, and even funnier. The boys decide to raise some money by using hypnosis to make a dud boxer fight like a champ. Watch for Jimmy (J.J.) Walker as the unlikely boxer.
Continuing my journey back to the 7 O'Clock movie on independent TV Stations.

This is not a sequel to Uptown Saturday Night. Sidney Poitier directs the same type of story, here, a blue collar couple on vacation in New Orleans get involved fixing a fight. Bill Cosby and Poitier hypnotize Jimmie Walker as Bootney Farnsworth who becomes Middleweight Champion of the World. The scheme runs swirl of 2 mob bosses played by Calvin Lockhart and John Amos.

The movie is about as well written of a comedy as you were likely to find in the mid 70s. The situations are funny and sort of believable. I didn't want the movie to end. I want to point of how amazing Bill Cosby was in the movie, no matter how his career and life ended up, we was a gifted comedic actor and fantastic in this and Uptown which I watched last weekend.
Far better written and directed than 'Uptown Saturday Night' but with an easygoing laziness in the plot that would not be tolerated by a studio today—to its benefit, for the most part.
A bit dated, but any film with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby should be a fun time. I watched this with a group of work colleagues and everyone seemed to enjoy it. Considering the current Cosby stuff, there was a weird scene with a young girl in a waiting room that has an unintended meaning nowadays.