Dont Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
After Ashtray finds himself bizarrely comic crime underworld his only way out will be an urban poet who tries to keep him going straight.
23 November 1959, Oakland, California, USA
21 June 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 August 1968, Illinois, USA
7 October 1956, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 August 1946, New York City, New York, USA
October 21, 2003
[A] pleasant hour and a half.
January 01, 2000
Outrageous is the key word here. In many successful scenes, the Wayans deftly play on our assumptions and cliches.
February 05, 2008
Full of very obvious spoofery, and funnier in concept than in execution.
September 17, 2005
...the Wayans use a sledgehammer to drive in a thumbtack.
January 01, 2000
Rude, crude and outrageous.
September 16, 2005
There's maybe three or four half-decent chuckles to be found in this otherwise interminable 90-minute mega-chore.
February 05, 2008
Strangely sour and ultimately wearisome.
December 28, 2004
The thin plot is merely the frame for gags, and there are more a few good ones here.
January 01, 2000
Things might be bad, the movie suggests, but they're not so bad you can't laugh.
October 11, 2004
Laugh yourself stupid....Wayans classic!
September 22, 2005
If you really want to appreciate this film, go see all the hood movies from the 90s - good and bad.
August 30, 2004
A free-for-all comic spoof that brings the 'hood' genre of Hollywood films full circle.
