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Review by Daniel ★★★½

"You should've stuck to visiting old ladies."

When a prostitute is found murdered in her San Francisco apartment, homicide detective Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is assigned the case. The prime suspect seems to be Reverend Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau), who is politically active in an urban renewal project. Sharpe, however, claims he visited the victim only to help her ...

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! is a mystery drama film directed by Gordon Douglas. It's the 2nd installment in the Virgil Tibbs film series, a sequel to In the Heat of the Night (my review).

After the success of its predecessor, Sidney Poitier reprised his iconic role as Virgil Tibbs in two sequels, this one being the first. Its…

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Fun fact: the original title of this was They Call Me MISTER Tibbs, Muthafucka! but it didn't fit on the poster.

Ed Asner somehow stole William Shatner's toupée, leading to unintentional hilarity.

Review by Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti" ★★★

"They Call Me Mister Tibbs!" is a 1970 crime film directed by Gordon Douglas. The film, starring Sidney Poitier in his return role from "In the Heat of the Night" (1967) which was directed by Norman Jewison and won a generous amount of Academy Awards that year, including best picture. As that film was based upon a book of the same name written in 1965 by John Ball and was an integral part of an ensembled series of collective cases being solved by Virgil Tibbs, it was easy to expect more films on the character on the horizon come into the fold after. "They Call Me Mister Tibbs!" was the film follow up, arriving three years prior to the original…

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You know, in less than ten years now, you're going to be on your own. Schools are through, the army's through, your mother and me - we'll be through. You'll be on your own then, Mr., you ever thought of that one? And what are you going to do? What are you going to be?

Sidney Poitier is back as Virgil Tibbs but this time we follow him through his city and not as an outsider.
It also shows way more of his personal life and his family.
He has a wife, a son and a daughter an while his work as inspector takes a lot of time he tries to teach his son te become a man, to grow…

Review by JBird ★★★½

Mister Tibbs is on the case!
Always with a straight face.
In the heat of night,
He'll do what's right,
Following up on every trace.

Review by Michael501 📺 ★

1970

In this sequel to "In The Heat of the Night," Detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) must solve the murder of a prostitute. The last person witnessed with the victim is Tibbs' friend, Logan Sharpe (Martin Landau), a preacher and activist. Despite his loyalty, Tibbs must investigate when Sharpe its having visited the prostitute. In addition to his police work, Tibbs must also ease tension with his wife (Barbara McNair), who wants him to spend more time with her and their children.

This a perfect example of how not to do a sequel. Take away everything that worked and what was good about the first film. That means, there is no Rod Steiger who was the best thing about the…

Review by ᴬⁿᵗʰᵒⁿʸ ★★½

Quincy Jones didn’t have to go that hard on the soundtrack, though. 🔍

Review by Jos 3.0 🍉 ★★★½ Liked

They Call Me Mr. Tibbs naturally pursues the inner life of Sydney Poitier’s character from In the Heat of the Night, and where the latter is known for “the slap” of a white slave owner, this movie employs the slap at home where father hits son. This isn’t the central focus of the movie but what interested me more than the murder plot/police procedural was what this story chose to say about the self-respecting Black man from an iconic civil rights-era film, and what his home life is like. White audiences surely took note. Where the original film was partly about Tibbs’ impact on the audience, here it’s a lot to do with how he impacts his family. 

We actually purposefully…

Review by Lebowskidoo 🇨🇦 🎬 🍿 ★★★★

Loved the retro look of this movie, and it's not bad, but as a sequel to the Oscar winning In the Heat of the Night, expectations were not met. No one as worthy as Rod Steiger exists in this follow-up for Poitier to bounce off of. Not even Martin Landau, who is given little to do.

I had, yes, had to see this because I am a movie nerd completist, but it's pretty average compared to the original. Most movie fans would probably agree.

Review by Deaner50 ★★★½ Liked

I never knew that they made two sequel films or spin offs to In The Heat Of The Night.
Rest In Peace Quincy Jones. Quincy Jones did the funky score.
They changed Virgil Tibbs in this movie the writers gave him a family and changed the city he works in from Philadelphia to San Francisco. It kind of confused me. Is it the same character.
Sidney Poitier is great and it has a good cast. It seems a little unfocused at times as what kind of movie it wants to be. The story is all over the place after a strong start.

Review by Keith G ★★★

A very angry prostitute gets strangled and bludgeoned to death. Chief suspects are preacher and would be politician Martin Landau, shady building owner Anthony Zerbe and the guy paying her rent, toupeed Ed Asner. It's up to Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) to figure it out, complicating matters is his close relationship with the preacher, who its a relationship with the dead girl.

Prime Video just added another shit tonne of great movies to their service yesterday and one of them included the one Tibbs movie I hadn't seen.

I would say this is probably the weakest of the three, but remains a fairly decent procedural. It does get bogged down in Tibbs fairly tame family drama dynamic, which in the…

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☆"You shoulda stuck to visiting old ladies."☆

Sidney Poitier shined in Norman Jewison's Best Picture winner In the Heat of the Night in 1967. Maybe half a century ago it wasn't a slam dunk to plan a sequel like a successful and acclaimed movie would require today, but sure enough the demand was there to see what other crimes and mysteries Virgil Tibbs could solve.

But unfortunately, that follow-up is vastly inferior, with a star who seems disinterested perhaps because the story is horribly uninteresting. Using his famous retort from the previous film for the title, They Call Me Mister Tibbs! brings back the namesake detective but in a confoundingly directionless and forgettable movie.

Detective Virgil Tibbs (Poitier) is now…