YMMV / Disco Godfather

• Audience-Alienating Premise: A straight dramatic turn (well, as dramatic as you could get) from Rudy Ray Moore, playing an ex-cop turned disco DJ and nightclub impresario who heads up a righteous moralizing campaign to make sure nobody can score any drugs, lest they go insane and be possessed by non-metaphorical, basketball-playing demons. Also, Rudy refrains from constantly swearing and telling R-rated jokes... in other words, what he was most talented at, and the two main reasons people went to go see his movies.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: While movie can get weird at times, the evil cowboy assassin with a fetish for whipping people definitely stands out especially since, like other many of villains, he isn't mentioned after he is defeated.
• Narm:
  • The hallucinations are intended to be Nightmare Fuel. However, they tend come off as goofy since they feature things like basketball-playing demons and the protagonist's Sassy Black Woman mother.
  • The portrayal of the PCP victims is so over-the-top that is hard to take them seriously.
• Obvious Judas: Stinger's introduction has the other characters talk about how he is successful businessman and respected member of the community. Unsurprisingly, he is quickly revealed to be the leader of the drug dealers.
• Padding: The numerous disco dance sequences don't much aside from eating up time.
• Retroactive Recognition: The film served as the debut of Keith David, who has an unbilled bit part as a patron in the nightclub.
• Squick: The cowboy assassin gets off on whipping people.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Even moreso than the usual Rudy Ray Moore vehicle. Not only is the movie very much a product of its era — including the title itself, a extremely 1970's combination of "Disco" and "Godfather" — but many elements of the plot and setting were dated at the time of its release; by September 1979, disco was in the throes of a slow, unmourned death, while PCP, then perhaps the most feared narcotic in America, would be overtaken within a decade by much cheaper, less traceable drugs like crack cocaine and methamphetamine.

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