Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

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Directed by Paris Barclay.

Starring Marlon Wayans, Suli McCullough, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Chris Spencer, Shawn Wayans.

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, All Movie Guide

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"Scary Movie 4It's funny that very rarely to I ever even consider watching the sequel to a horror movie that I consider to be less than really great. In fact I usually don't seek out too many horror movies because I find most of the mediocre. It's funny then that I keep watching this series of fairly mediocre comedy movies that poke fun at those same very mediocre horror series.Actually I can't remember why I ever saw the first Scary Movie. I can't even remember if I saw it at a theater or on DVD. I know I have seen Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood and thought that was amusing (although I was wasted and had no idea what it was at the time) which was made by the same people.I think I found the original Scary Movie to be somewhat amusing, but knew the sequel looked horrible in the previews. Somehow my friend Tom convinced me to go see it with him. I think he even paid for my ticket because no one else would go with ... " [More]

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