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I hadn't seen this movie since it came out. It was a pleasant and very funny surprise then and it still is. As others have said it's Bill Cosby's movie and he makes the most of it. Portier shows a somewhat more annoying side to his personality, doing more than his fair share of mugging but that and the cliché gangster/boxer motif aside or perhaps because of it this movie is very very funny. Jimmy J.J. Walker steals the movie as a very unlikely middleweight boxer. Denise Nicholas is beautiful and sexy and there's a score that could be sampled to death to make a new funky soundtrack for a party. I don't understand the low rating but then comedies generally get lower ratings for some reason.But don't let that discourage you. My general criteria for a comedy is if it makes me laugh out loud on at least three occasions then it gets an automatic 7. I give this one an 8.

July 2008 Update:

A sequel to "Uptown Saturday Night" in every real sense; though Cosby and Poitier play different characters it's the same guys in all but name, the film's title even a blatant reference to this fact. Though this didn't quite match the box office of the former it's arguably slightly the better of the two films, albeit uneven in tone.

As a big fan of Poitier, it has to be said that he's not as good a director as he is an actor, and that his light entertainment gene isn't as developed as it could be. Even dressed up in an outrageous pimp zoot suit he casts a staid presence, a straight, slightly stiff foil to Cosby and a clash of styles against Jimmy Walker's cartoonish boxer.

Back in May 1999 when I posted my original review, I described this as a "sublime vehicle" and "extremely pleasing", giving it 7/10. I can only conclude that I was fooling myself, viewing the film through youthful, Poitier-tinted sunglasses. Let's Do It Again is a decent enough film, but lacks sophistication on any real level and is, at best, undemanding entertainment.

Two years after this movie came out Cosby and Poitier would try it once more, with "A Piece Of The Action", after which Poitier would retire from acting and only make sporadic returns. As a trilogy to retire on, then it's good that Poitier left by putting smiles on people's faces, even though comedy clearly isn't his thing in front of the camera. Indeed, after a stonefaced first half, Poitier indulges in somewhat desperate mugging throughout the second half of this movie, illustrating that he had more success with comedy behind the camera... three years after his retirement from acting he directed Stir Crazy.

Trivia about the film includes a cameo from George Foreman (then a year deposed as heavyweight champion upon the film's release) and the inspiration for Biggie Smalls's nickname. Curtis Mayfield and the Staple Sisters add to a fine soundtrack that's almost as good as the sublime gospel in the first film of this unofficial trilogy.

This time Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby play 2 friends who belong to a group and were supposed to be raising money. They end up trying to train a boxer to beat the current champ by hypnotizing him. They end up getting their wives involved and Denise Nicholas has the best line of all - "Will you tell that girl to get that thing out of my face before I make her eat it?" THey are so over the top that it makes it even better. The supporting cast is pretty much the same as the previous movie. If nothing else, Sidney Poitier is keeping a lot of black actors employed! Once you get into it, you will truly enjoy it. Jimmy Walker isn't even the best part of the movie.

I've seen this movie along with Uptown Saturday Night countless times and, this one being the better of the two, and I still crack up. Bill & Sidney are great together and it's a shame they haven't collaborated since the 70's.

Jimmy Walker is simply "down right NAYISTEE!! with laughs".

I'm waiting for the DVD.

This is the second of three pairings of Sidney Poitier with Bill Cosby. All were comedies and were made in the 1970s. The first film, "Uptown Saturday Night" was a lot of fun...I wonder if the pair can manage to be as good in "Let's Do It Again".

Clyde and Billy (Poitier and Cosby) are two friends who live in Atlanta and are members of a fraternal order, The Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. They are in charge of handling the money for the organization's building fund and they have a scheme to greatly increase these funs by gambling on a boxing match in New Orleans. Their plan is a bit cartoonish, as they sneak into the underdog's room and hypnotize him into believing he will win the fight. Surprisingly, the guy manages to win...and Clyde and Billy are thrilled with their winnings....at least until the gangsters they bet with assume they somehow cheated. What's next? See the film....and understand that just like their previous movie, things will snowball quickly!

The funniest thing about the movie is having Jimmy Walker play the boxer...a guy who seems about as likely a boxing champ as Peewee Herman! Otherwise, the humor is a bit silly and forced. Now this isn't to say it's a bad film...but it just doesn't have the cleverness and fun in their first film.

Urban renewal strikes again! The Black Fraternal and Sororal order is about to lose its location, and is way short of money to find another site in Atlanta. So members Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier head off to New Orleans with their wives, where Poitier hypnotizes middleweight contender J. J. Walker into knocking out the champion. With the money won from local Black bookmakers Calvin Lockhart and John Amos, they return triumphantly to Atlanta. Six months later, they are at the new headquarters celebrating. John Amos shows up with a demand that they repeat their shenanigans so he can wipe out Lockhart.

The story is an old-fashioned one, half Amos & Andy and half Bowery Boys. However this follow-up to UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT is offered with location shooting, top actors, and a general sense modernity that it turns into an enjoyable middle-brow movie. With Ossie Davis, Denise Nicholas, and Lee Chamberlain.

This movie was brilliant, funny, and had a dynamite soundtrack.

As I was watching I kept waiting for the movie to devolve into a joke. Maybe because it looked low budget, maybe because Jimmy Walker was in it being his same hamming self, or maybe because it was done in 1975. Whatever the reason I was steadily anticipating failure and delightfully it never happened. It remained fresh, funny, and intelligent throughout.

Now, I can't conclude this review without mentioning one of the characters: Biggie Smalls (Calvin Lockhart).

"Biggie Smalls is the illest Your style is played out like that "Whatchu talkin' bout Willis"

The only Biggie Smalls I'd ever known was the Notorious B.I.G. I had no idea that he borrowed/stole/appropriated the name Biggie Smalls from this movie. That makes one more reason this movie was worthwhile.

Not a bad movie, but mildly funny and entertaining crime action comedy directed and starred by Sidney Poitier and co-starred by Bill Cosby. The opening scenes heightened my expectations, as I firstly saw stunning Jayne Jennedy and awesome cameo of big George Foreman in the bluecollar scenes. However, nothing that would eventually happen would be related to those very first scenes. The gambling mob film is silly, with camp cartoon-like events, but has good moments, and Denise Nicholas in the ending was great. By the way, there is no rigged fight if the boxer were not drugged or hurted, and if none of them lose intentionally.

I'm a Dramatic Writing student at NYU and Richard Wesley is our chair! I took his Film Story Analysis class this semester which was a lot of fun (movies every week!) and today was the last class so he showed this film of his. (We all stayed past the end of class to finish it.) Haha I loved it so much and couldn't even tell it was from the 70's. Such timeless humor. I also didn't know that Richard invented the name "Biggie Smalls" which was too cool. All year he showed us films in order to show how professionals work their screenplays, but he saved the best for last! Thanks Wesley for your awesome movie and class! See you tomorrow! Haha.

Clyde Williams (Sidney Poitier) and Billy Foster (Bill Cosby) are blue collar lodge brothers. Their African-American lodge in Atlanta is in dire straits and they have been tasked to save it. The city has ordered their lodge demolished in 6 weeks and they have only collected $20k to rebuild it. It is nowhere near enough. They guys decide to use Clyde's hypnosis skills to turn wimpy underdog boxer Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie 'JJ' Walker) into a fighting machine and win a big bet.

After Bill Crosby's recent troubles, this character has not aged well at all. I try to put it out of my head, but that kind of leering humor is not that funny to me anyways. As for the story, it is non-sense. Clyde is basically a superhero and that's all they can do with that. Collecting the bets is always going to be the biggest problem which suggests going somewhere else. Some of this is funny and I get the attempt at the blaxploitation spin. I guess it's funny, but Crosby's present-day shadow looms large.

This movie was great from start to finish. I really don't understand why there are just 17 user reviews as I write this. The acting was first rate. Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier were excellent, and Calvin Lockhart and John Amos were very good in their respective roles. This is not to take away from the rest of the cast.

Sidney Poitier did a fine job with the directing. Curtis Mayfield wrote a first rate film score for this movie, including the hit "Let's Do It Again".

It was a funny movie also. Generally, when I like a comedy, it is more for the plot in general as opposed to the actual comedy, but this made me laugh out loud quite several times.

But the biggest thing? It was just a well written, CLEVER script that kept you wanting more. When you have boxing, gambling, underdogs, and hypnotiism with good writing, its a cant miss. I have seen it at least a dozen times, and never tire of it.

I have never seen someone like this that can't act! Jimmy JJ Walker is the worst Actor ever!

This is my favorite of the Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier trilogy from the 70's. The chemistry between these two is fantastic.

Cosby and Poitier are friends and lodge brothers who are trying to save their lodge from demolition. They decide to take the meager building fund and place bets on a boxing match. The catch? The fighter they are going to bet on is a 5 to 1 underdog, and a hapless Jimmie Walker. Walker keeps getting knocked out by his sparring partners! How do they hope to win? Hypnosis!

The actors are all first rate and there is fun all around. These films were a nice contrast to the "Blaxploitation" films of the 70's, as they provided more positive roles for many black actors. John Amos and Calvin Lockhart are rival gangsters who take the bets and then go after Cosby and Poitier. Denise Nicholas shines as Cosby's wife and the always great Ossie Davis is the leader of the lodge.

Fans of the Cosby Show may be surprised by Cosby in these films. There is a great scene where Cosby and Nicholas engage in a bit of "dirty" talk in a restaurant. This is not Cliff and Claire Huxtable!

Poitier directed these films and shows great ability. The scenes are staged well and the shots are never dull. It's a shame he didn't direct more.

This film is worth it, if only for the scenes of Cosby trying to pass himself off as a gangster. His outfit has to be seen to be believed. Check this and Uptown Saturday Night and A Piece of the Action sometime.

I watched this with my son the other day. I've seen the film about 10 times now (in on my 50s and my son who's just turned 21 have never seen this film before. So when I suggested that he watch it with me, obviously he was reluctant to say the least. He was saying that he don't like to watch them old people movies. Anyway halfway through the film and he was glued to his seat and by the end of the movie he was saying "now that's a cool movie dad". I smiled saying this kind of films never grow old. Nuff said.

Jimmy Walker has never been given the proper acclaim for his comedic talents. Watch this film for proof of the previous sentence. He is a treat as Bootney Farnsworth. I've seen this film 7-8 times and I still laugh out loud every time Walker is on screen. And to top it all off, you get on of the best performances of Bill Cosby's career and a great, though subtle, portrayal of a church elder/hypnotist.

I remember actually seeing "Let's Do It Again" in the theater with a friend when I was very young, and I also remember the audience (mostly kids) laughing like crazy. Sure enough, having just watched this film again for the first time in 30 years, it holds up as a decent enough comedy full of familiar TV and movie faces to anyone who was a 70's kid.

Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby are fantastic and have great chemistry, no doubt about it. This leads to many funny scenes, such as them hiding behind the couch in the woman's apartment. Cosby, however, is a little more the star here, and gets to showboat on his own a bit more than Poitier. The dirty-talk scene in the restaurant with Cosby and his very hot wife is hilarious.

There are even more hot girls to look at besides Cosby's wife, such as the one in the beginning at Cosby's work (with an amazing pair of legs), and the molls of both gangsters. Jimmy Walker is decent, and the film thankfully keeps his schtick at its useful minimum. His dad on Good Times, John Amos, is fine as a tough-guy gangster. Ozzie Davis, good as he is, bores the viewer with his character, which is a necessary character for a few scenes but who no one really wants to see. And Calvin Lockhart is always fun to watch in anything he does.

I'm surprised that no one told Cosby that with that beard, he looks 55 years old. This won't be a film that you have repeat viewings with, but it's a good 70's comedy without a doubt.

What is surprising is Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier didn't have an even more extensive directing career (at least 9 films to his credit) because "Let's Do It Again" is deftly crafted and funny.

Believe it or not, that's quite impressive in an era (1970s so-called Blaxploitation films) hard pressed to find material suitable to African American actors and comedians. In fact by the mid 1970s a few "Let's Do It Again" cast members joined the NAACP in blasting Hollywood for the evident paucity of material and roles for talented blacks because much of what emerged was exploitive stereotypes and had the effect of mainstreaming distorted ethnic and racial images.

In this movie, however, a bearded Bill Cosby (Billy Foster), clean-shaven Poitier (Clyde Williams) team up as do-good Atlanta fraternal order brothers who play the odds to "con" threatening criminal punks so they could cheerfully give gambling winnings to a pet charity. Of course, they have to impossibly hypnotize Jimmy Walker's reluctant and unlikely bone thin boxer (Bootney Farnsworth) enabling him to successfully fight heavier and craftier opponents; convince their beautiful but reluctant wives to go in on the con and, after pulling off a preposterous megabucks "sucker bet" caper, escape the played mobsters by hoofing it through a series of apartment buildings. In one of the cinema's longest and funniest foot chases ever, the duo dashes through an unlocked apartment door running smack into a dining room not quite interrupting a family dinner. The folks seated around the dining table are incredulous for a quick moment and, well, maybe we should leave a few surprises.

The movie doesn't escape the "Mack" flamboyance of the decade, nor did it avoid the annoying 70s "wah-wah" disco soundtrack but it doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator evident in other movies whose stars were African American. On the other hand, performances by Denise Nicholas (Beth Foster), Calvin Lockhart, (Biggie Smalls) deliver a sense of dignity that would not have emerged under the hands of any lesser director in that era.

In the pre-Huxtable Cosby universe, a comic actor shines. Of course, Cosby had resisted such notions during his successful run of the NBC-TV series, playing down and turning away Emmy nominations for Best Actor. In the younger Cosby's personna, there is none of the self-mocking. He's not playing a cuddly version of himself. He's perhaps funnier than anything he presented to the generation who grew up with the Huxtables and "Ghost Dad" (also directed by Sidney Poitier), which makes it plausible for younger viewers to dust off this more than quarter-century old relic and get a kick out of what Poitier was able to do with Timothy March and Richard Wesley's story and script.

Aside from not descending into the group of movies that fall under the category of 70s "exploitation flicks", there is no social comment here. "Let's Do It Again" will give us a grittier maybe funnier Cosby than anything Generation Xers are likely to remember. If you want to escape, indulge in popcorn and have a laugh, this is a fun film.

A pure classic. Bill Cosby always keeps the laughs and storytelling coming. It's no difference for this movie. Oh, and it doesn't hurt to have the beautiful Denise Nicholas either. Very funny and enjoyable movie. Put it in your collection if you are a true movie buff.

Of course it's problematic watching Bill Cosby in a comedy now. But in the 1970s the man ruled. He had a popular TV Show, a kids show( Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids), and was the first black actor to have a major role in a TV series - I Spy in the 1960s. In otherwords he was a star celebrity. As well as being a charismatic actor as he shows here. Portier as good at drama as he is , seems lost in comparison and never really registers. However he delivers as a comedic director. The action scenes are well handled. And even better are the hilarious boxing scenes. Denise Nicholas is unbelievably beautiful and has a great moment as a female hustler. This movie is funny from beginning to end. Highly recommend and as a time capsule of the 70s it is priceless.

Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier play working class men who want to get rich. They come up with $20,000 for a scheme, but $18,000 of that comes from their lodge's building fund. The men take their wives to New Orleans and, while there, they see an opportunity in an inept boxer, played by Jimmie Walker, who has the opportunity to win the middleweight title. Poitier hypnotizes the boxer and makes him very confident, and the men pose as New York millionaires and place bets with a bookie (well played by John Amos) who later figures out what they did and wants to take advantage of the situation, possibly bringing down rival Biggie Smalls.

Cosby is his usual self, only hipper (especially when he dresses in wild outfits to pretend to be rich). It's a real pleasure to see Poitier in a role that you can laugh at, since most of his characters have been so sophisticated. The two men together are great, especially when they are trying to get out of jams. I especially enjoyed seeing Cosby pretend to be a big-time gangster while talking on the phone. Walker, of course, was one of the best buffoons in 1970s TV, and he doesn't disappoint here. Even when his character is confident and talented, he still has that cartoonish quality about him.

Curtis Mayfield's music, with vocal performances by the Staples Singers, added a lot to the movie.

It wasn't quite a family movie, but it was quite clean compared to similar movies being made today, with very little cursing and not much to really object to.

I had a good time.

Although not as good as its predecessor, "Uptown Saturday Night", this sequel always provides some good laughs, especially if you overlook the wide-eyed Amos & Andy style acting of the principals (the worst perpetrator, oddly enough, being the typically stoic Sidney Poitier). Minstrel-esque hamming for the camera aside, this one is just plain fun to watch. Calvin Lockhart and John Amos are great comedic villains, almost playing their roles straight amidst the tom-foolery surrounding them.

As an African-American who grew up in the 70's, this and all the other Blaxploitation films provides a nostalgic, although somewhat exaggerated, look at life in the Black community. Put "Let's Do It Again" on a triple-bill with "Car Wash" and "Cooley High" and you'll have an entertaining blast from the past.

Cosby and Poitier shine in this comedy/adventure about two brothers who try to pull off a con in the hope of raising money for a new temple. The results are perfect with both raising lots of laughs in the tradition of the great Amos 'n' Andy. A great buddy picture!

What is surprising is Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier didn't have an even more extensive directing career (at least 9 films to his credit) because "Let's Do It Again" is deftly crafted and funny.

Believe it or not, that's quite impressive in an era (1970s so-called Blaxploitation films) hard pressed to find material suitable to African American actors and comedians. In fact by the mid 1970s a few "Let's Do It Again" cast members joined the NAACP in blasting Hollywood for the evident paucity of material and roles for talented blacks because much of what emerged was exploitive stereotypes and had the effect of mainstreaming distorted ethnic and racial images.

In this movie, however, a bearded Bill Cosby (Billy Foster), clean-shaven Poitier (Clyde Williams) team up as do-good Atlanta fraternal order brothers who play the odds to "con" threatening criminal punks so they could cheerfully give gambling winnings to a pet charity. Of course, they have to impossibly hypnotize Jimmy Walker's reluctant and unlikely bone thin boxer (Bootney Farnsworth) enabling him to successfully fight heavier and craftier opponents; convince their beautiful but reluctant wives to go in on the con and, after pulling off a preposterous megabucks "sucker bet" caper, escape the played mobsters by hoofing it through a series of apartment buildings. In one of the cinema's longest and funniest foot chases ever, the duo dashes through an unlocked apartment door running smack into a dining room not quite interrupting a family dinner. The folks seated around the dining table are incredulous for a quick moment and, well, maybe we should leave a few surprises.

The movie doesn't escape the "Mack" flamboyance of the decade, nor did it avoid the annoying 70s "wah-wah" disco soundtrack but it doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator evident in other movies whose stars were African American. On the other hand, performances by Denise Nicholas (Beth Foster), Calvin Lockhart, (Biggie Smalls) deliver a sense of dignity that would not have emerged under the hands of any lesser director in that era.

In the pre-Huxtable Cosby universe, a comic actor shines. Of course, Cosby had resisted such notions during his successful run of the NBC-TV series, playing down and turning away Emmy nominations for Best Actor. In the younger Cosby's personna, there is none of the self-mocking. He's not playing a cuddly version of himself. He's perhaps funnier than anything he presented to the generation who grew up with the Huxtables and "Ghost Dad" (also directed by Sidney Poitier), which makes it plausible for younger viewers to dust off this more than quarter-century old relic and get a kick out of what Poitier was able to do with Timothy March and Richard Wesley's story and script.

Aside from not descending into the group of movies that fall under the category of 70s "exploitation flicks", there is no social comment here. "Let's Do It Again" will give us a grittier maybe funnier Cosby than anything Generation Xers are likely to remember. If you want to escape, indulge in popcorn and have a laugh, this is a fun film.