The Weird World of Blowfly
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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 6 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 6
  3. Negative: 0 out of 6
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  1. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Nathan Rabin
    Sep 14, 2011
    75
    The Weird World Of Blowfly at times recalls "The Wrestler," only instead of schlepping his aging body from city to city to don outrageous costumes and wrestle, 69-year-old soul-music legend Clarence Reid schleps his hunched-over frame to gigs where he performs X-rated parodies and scatological ditties as incorrigible proto-hip-hopper Blowfly.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Kalvin Henely
    Sep 12, 2011
    63
    If The Weird World of Blowfly is any different from other documentaries about eccentric characters from music-world obscurity, it's in the contentious topics Clarence touches on in his cantankerous speech.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Paul Brunick
    Sep 15, 2011
    50
    Somehow Mr. Reid has an ability to push so far into the depths of stupidity that he breaks out the other side, making you laugh in spite of yourself.
  4. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Eric Hynes
    Sep 13, 2011
    50
    Although its subject is never less than captivating, Jonathan Furmanski's film is frustratingly unfocused, a scattershot collection of candid footage and biographical information. Thankfully, Blowfly's world is weird as promised.
  5. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    Sep 12, 2011
    50
    Hanging out with a 1970s cult figure of raunchy R&B "party records" is less fun than one would expect in The Weird World of Blowfly.
  6. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Sep 13, 2011
    40
    So-so contemporary shows and cantankerous arguments are favored over in-depth looks at Reid's legacy. Any genuine weirdness about a funky, filthy-mouthed freak running around in a costume is left AWOL.

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