The Human Tornado (1976)

oh my god this shit is incredible

This movie is even funnier than the first one, both intentionally and unintentionally.
The plot itself is less focused, as it has two pretty disconnected plotlines that could have each been their own movie, but that’s alright since it’s not the plot itself that carries this movie.

Dolemite is on tour through the United States (though every club shot seems to be the same set, and sometimes it cuts to him at the same spot, wearing the same clothes) doing both comedy and sex work. At a house party in the south (though very obviously filmed in California), he gets attacked and framed for murder by the local racist sheriff and has to flee to his home state. Meanwhile, his club is closed and his girls hired by the mafia, because Dolemite’s club is too successful, and they needed to poach the talent.

The movie is way more ambitious, it has more ADR, crazy editing that sometimes borders on YTP, bigger fight scenes, more of Rudy Ray Moore rhyming for no reason. They are all hilarious.
If you liked what Dolemite had to offer, there’s more of that as well: iconic one-liners, kung-fu fighting girls, a funky soundtrack, and Dolemite himself is absurdly macho and charismatic in-universe.

There’s also some incredibly weird and surreal sex scenes that border on parody and feel like a Gene Roddenberry fever dream. I don’t really want to describe them because they’re incredible and deserve to be experienced with a fresh mind.

Another notable aspect is that, in spite of having one joke character whose entire deal is being gay and weirdly into getting kidnapped, there’s a trans woman whose gender is never questioned. She gets to kick ass, and she’s treated as sexy, in the same way as the cis women (it is still a 1970s movie, there’s a lot of male-gazey shots).

I can’t think of any other movie that made me laugh this hard. I love it so much.