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List Price: $14.96 | | Label: New Line Home Video
Salesrank: 9319
Released: September 3, 2002 |
| Our Price: $5.79 |
| Used Price: $6.96 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
It takes a street fighter to clean up the streets. It takes The Mack and his pack to do it right! Packed with raw power, The Mack takes an uncompromising look at big city street life and survival. Don't miss the action because the action never stops! Year: 1973
Description of The Mack (New Line Platinum Series):
The Mack, a 1973 pimping epic, is at once a laughable, schlock classic and a harbinger of more serious black-themed films to come. Starring the now-forgotten Max Julien as Goldie, the preening ex-con whose dream is to rule the streets with a fine Cadillac and a fleet of topnotch hookers, this film is full of whip-crack, mostly improvised dialogue and hilarious stereotypes (the evil white cops, a wisdom-spouting blind man, and more trash-talkin' pimps than you could shake a walking stick at).
Not only is the film one you can chuckle at in the postmodern, ironic mode, it is also a window on the world of today's rap superstars, many of whom have sampled, invoked, or quoted lines from this gaudy paean to pandering. In other words, The Mack is a kind of godfather to a future stark frankness about life on the streets. But forget the sociological hooey and dig into the piece as an urban costume picture with a greasy/funky score by R&B genius Willie Hutch.
Also, it features an amazing supporting turn by Richard Pryor, who, playing Tonto to Julien's Lone Ranger, unleashes torrents of nearly incomprehensible verbiage in the film's finest moments. Mind you, such brilliance is a direct comedy-organ transplant from Pryor's stand-up act: he was performing his "Pimp on Blow" routine at about the same time The Mack was filmed. Seventy percent of this piece is dross, but the other 30 is the apex of urban surrealism. One vignette to tantalize: Goldie hypnotizing his "ladies" into docile submission as they sit in a planetarium, mechanically repeating his words: "I will remain a lady at all times..." --David Was
The Mack (New Line Platinum Series) Reviews:
This is a hard one to review!!! 
2009-12-09 - I am really torn reviewing the Mack. As an author of a book dealing with Stereotypes, I see many that have contributed to the detriment of Black people as a whole. Some stereotypes may seem cool, but do you really want to be known for self-destructive behavior? Look at what happened to Goldie's Mom. All of the fame and fortune that he amassed was all for naught. I must admit, I was mesmerized by the coolness of Goldie and Slick(Richard Pryor). The dialogue between the two has to go down as the most memorable in Black film making. This was no doubt due to the Ward Brothers making sure Oak-Town was represented to the full. I am anxious to hear what Dr. Todd Boyd has to say on the Mack. He should do a whole book on the Mack.Plain Talk - Volume 1
Right on time
2009-08-02 - I let a friend borrow my original of this movie and they conveniently keep forgetting to bring it back. So I purchased another one and made them pay for both. LOL
Never advertise something you don't have. 
2009-06-25 - I never received this item. If the seller didn't have it available then why advertise it? This is very bad practice.
The Mack is back
2009-06-15 - This movie is a classic movie & this is a must is the library for the true
Macks!!
The Mack. Vhs. Whoever Said Pimpin' Was Easy?
2009-06-06 - Pimpin Ain't Easy, and while this movie is cheesy, it's a valuable lesson on a life of crime, Plenty of action,fights and crooked cops who want in on the action , Excellent acting By the white cops one of who is Don Gordon and the guy who plays the crooked and badman: Fatman, Prior is so-so in this film, and Max Julien as Unsightly as he is, Which I don't know why he's a "Mack" . Since I am better looking. (LOL) My only other compliant is that at times it's too long of a movie and bad acting.I think superfly is a better "Pimp" genre movie.
