Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in The Hood (1996)
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29% of critics liked it
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78% of users liked it
(63,477 ratings)
Much as Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You Sucka parodied the basic elements of 70's blaxploitation pictures, this film written by and starring his younger brothers Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans pokes fun at the gritty "reality check" films of the 1990's, such as Boyz… More Much as Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You Sucka parodied the basic elements of 70's blaxploitation pictures, this film written by and starring his younger brothers Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans pokes fun at the gritty "reality check" films of the 1990's, such as Boyz N The Hood, Menace II Society and New Jack City. When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray keep living the straight life or will he join up with Loc Dog's gangsta homeboys? And is his romance with self-styled poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones) going to go anywhere? Big brother Keenen has a small role as a mailman. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- Paris Barclay
- Written By
- Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
- Genres
- Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 1996 Wide
- On DVD
- Jan 15, 2002
- Studio
- Miramax
Critic Reviews
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Godfrey Cheshire, Variety
Full of very obvious spoofery, and funnier in concept than in execution.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
A free-for-all comic spoof that brings the 'hood' genre of Hollywood films full circle.
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Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
Rude, crude and outrageous.
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Esther Iverem, Washington Post
Outrageous is the key word here. In many successful scenes, the Wayans deftly play on our assumptions and cliches.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Things might be bad, the movie suggests, but they're not so bad you can't laugh.
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Cast
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Shawn Wayans
as Ashtray
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Marlon Wayans
as Loc Dog
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Tracey Cherelle Jones
as Dashiki
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Chris Spencer
as Preach
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Suli McCullough
as Crazy Legs
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Darrell M. Heath
as Toothpick
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Helen Martin
as Grandma
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Kim Wayans
as Mrs. Johnson
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Keenen Ivory Wayans
as Mailman
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Vivica A. Fox
as Ashtray's Mother
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Isaiah Barnes
as Doo Rag
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Lahmard J. Tate
as Ashtray's Father
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Keith Morris
as Dave the Crackhead


