Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Finally, the movie that proves that Justice isn't always Poetic, Jungle Fever isn't always pretty, and Higher Learning can be a waste of time.
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Comedy, Crime
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1996
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When Ashtray 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, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
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Runtime:
89 min
Release date:
12 Jan 1996
Country:
US
Languages:
English, Spanish
Budget:
$3,800,000
Revenue:
$20,949,601
Awards:
1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
Full of very obvious spoofery, and funnier in concept than in execution.
– Godfrey Cheshire,
Variety,
5 Feb 2008
fresh:
A free-for-all comic spoof that brings the 'hood' genre of Hollywood films full circle.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
rotten:
Rude, crude and outrageous.
– Susan Wloszczyna,
USA Today,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Outrageous is the key word here. In many successful scenes, the Wayans deftly play on our assumptions and cliches.
– Esther Iverem,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Things might be bad, the movie suggests, but they're not so bad you can't laugh.
– Mick LaSalle,
San Francisco Chronicle,
1 Jan 2000