It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

This is my vote for one of the all-time worst blaxsploitation films--this and "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song"--though they are very, very different movies within the same genre. "Darktown Strutters" is, apparently, supposed to be a comedy, however, and "Sweet Sweetback" simply defies description! The bottom line is that you just can't get much worse than these films and deciding which of the two is better is like deciding which you prefer--Ebola or the Bubonic Plague!!"Darktown" stars a group of ridiculously attired black motorcycle 'chicks' who have a series of banal adventures--most of which eventually involve some cops who have the intelligence of cheese. None of the jokes work, none of the film is engaging and I simply felt this was a giant waste of timed due to horrific writing, bad and very broad acting and a story that simply went nowhere. I really wish I could have the time back that this film stole from my life--it was that unfunny and stupid. Extremely poor in every of the way, this is the most amateurish and pointless films I've seen in ages. If you want to see a good black comedy of this time period, try "Car Wash" instead. While rough, at least this film has laughs....I counted none in "Darktown"!!

I saw this movie for the first time on TCM 06/18.10, Never heard of it. A very bad depiction of black people. I thought the "Man Tam" thing( Blacks acting like goons ) was over by 1975. I was in college and we were not clowning like that. The only thing I liked about it was the Dramatics singing. Very awful. Unbelievable, a waste of money. I recognized one actor and was surprised that he stoop so low. I don't think Denzel would ever stoop that low. I waited for the credits to see who wrote and produced this piece of garbage. Put this one in the vault. I would rather see Super Fly or Foxy Brown. Poor taste, I do not recommend any Media station to show this kind of garbage again.

Like something out of a twisted 70s nightmare, DARKTOWN STRUTTERS is 100% entertainment for all the wrong reasons. I don't know if this movie is supposed to be taken seriously or is supposed to be a farce, but it certainly is unique in a way that no other blaxploitation film is.Trina Parks (who is great, by the way) is Syreena, a black Queen biker who leads a gang of outrageously dressed black female bikers who at first race against, then become friends with a bumbling male biker gang, led by Roger E. Mosley! Syreena is trying to find her mother Cinderella, who has disappeared. Her kung-fu fighting brother has no information about her whereabouts and Syreena must turn to some pretty far out pimps and hookers to not only find Cinderella, but to expose a plot to clone black leaders by a racist Colonel Sanders-look alike who charges a fortune for mediocre rib dinners at his restaurants. Why clone black leaders? So they can be programmed to vote for white leaders! Sound like fun? It is!The 70s fashions are out of this world, bumbling racist cops with a sonic siren harass the girls, The Dramatics sing "What You See Is What You Get" in a jail cell, the restaurant owner puts on a black-face minstrel show on a special stage in his dining room, a clone of "Colonel Sanders" comes out in diapers, amazing bike races and chases, and the final musical number while the credits roll is great! The musical score is great, making me wish a CD release was in the works (yeah right, like that will happen!). I really do love Trina Parks and her performance in this has made me anxious to track down her other films. No other notable performances, even though Dick Miller, the ultimate cult movie star, appears as one of the racist cops.Highly recommended, DARKTOWN STRUTTERS is just a fun, kick-back kind of movie that needs not be taken seriously. Don't question anything in this movie, just watch, laugh, and you will guaranteed remember it for the rest of your life!

"Darktown strutters" uses the most elaborate, colorful, and huge props and sets like the interior of the "pot-sicle" freezer complete with an igloo. The costumes are some of the most outlandish in the blaxploitation genre. The biker women wear rhinestoned pink and bright yellow jumpsuits and feather head dresses. The comedy is very basic slapstick which relies a lot on the props and action (like kung-fu moves, pies in the face and other uninteresting activities) rather than interesting dialogue or inventive action. Its overall "weirdness" was so obviously trying to be weird that it became sort of routine.