Let's Do It Again

A First Artists/Warner release starring Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby, also with Jimmy Walker and Ossie Davis.  Now appearing at The Palms, Birmingham, Norwest, and Tel-Ex Theaters.

     In Let's Do It Again, Sidney Poitier has extended the theme which worked so well for him in Uptown Saturday Night (he directed both films):  He and Bill Cosby again play two "average" dudes who use their wits and whatever luck they can muster to make fools of a host of big city black gangsters, and make a bundle of loot in the process.

     This time Poitier has added Jimmy Walker for additional draw and general zaniness and, once again, the formula works to create a funny movie.  Not a deep comedy, but a good, positive one nonetheless.

     Walker does not really have a major part in the movie, which may come as some disappointment to his fans.  But he is there, anyway, easily doing the role of a young, skinny boxer (Bootney Farnsworth) who gets hypnotized into thinking he can conquer all and ends up winning the World Middleweight Championship.

     Poitier has done a basically fine in-offensive job of giving us some old-fashioned (if up-dated) corn.  If you want a lift, this is what doc ordered.

--FB