"Black” foregoes too much scene-setting, chronology and logic to stand completely on its own. As a piece of cultural criticism, however, it painstakingly eviscerates nearly every scene in “Grey” and skewers latent sexism, classism and ludicrous sexual innuendoes, as well as the original’s numerous plot holes.

The film manages to be surprisingly subversive with its humor.

When Wayans allows himself to deviate from his formula there are a few effective moments of un-self-conscious slapstick.

As with other staples of the screen-parody genre, the comic bull’s-eyes arrive only intermittently.

An aimless, if sporadically clever, parody that tirelessly conceives of human sexuality as punchlines for its shortsighted cultural ribbings.