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Don't Be a Menace... (DVD)

Shawn Wayans (actor), Marlon Wayans (actor) and Paris Barclay (director)
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Synopsis

This film is a parody of the recent "hood" movies made by African-American directors, in particular John Singleton's "Boyz 'N the Hood."
The plot focuses on Ashtray, a do-gooder who comes to South Central L.A. to live with his father. Unfortunately, Dad turns out to be a poor role model, as he extols the virtues of unsafe sex and drunk driving. Ashtray's cousin Loc Dog is no better, with his hair-trigger temper and extensive weaponry (including a nuclear bomb). Ashtray manages to find romance with a pretty poet named Dashiki, but it turns out that she's a little too popular with the men in her neighborhood -- and not for her writing skills.
Will Ashtray become disillusioned by what he's seen and experienced in South Central?

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Review

USA Today, 01/15/1996, p.4D, "...This savage parody of the many recent coming-of-age-in-the-ghetto melodramas is rude, crude and outrageous..."

Variety, 01/15/1996, "...Spirited and hilarious..."

New York Times, 01/13/1996, p.C21, "...A free-for-all comic spoof....Beneath the hysteria, you can feel the movie's boiling rage..."

Title Note

Complete title: "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood."

A presentation of Island Pictures.

An Ivory Way production.

Additional credit: Hiriam Hicks (soundtrack executive producer)

Additional song performers: Ghostface Killa, Wu-Tang Clan, Lost Boyz, Mona Lisa, Junior Mafia's Lil Kim

Color by DeLuxe.

Released theatrically in the USA January 12, 1996.

Product Quotation/Excerpt

"One out of ten black men will be forced to sit through a `growing up in the hood movie' during their lifetime. One out of five will be shot in the theater." -- statistics at the beginning of the movie

"We're an endangered species. The rappers are getting all the good acting jobs." -- Ashtray (SHAWN WAYANS), to one of Dashiki's many children, who is armed with a gun

"...you know there ain't no positive black females in these movies." -- a middle-class mom, saying goodbye to her son, and explaining why she won't appear in the film again

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33

Product Notes

An antidote to the 1990s spate of urban coming-of-age films. The tale of a black youth sent to live with his father in the 'hood, this spoof parodies the key elements of such "serious" movies as "Boyz N the Hood," "Menace II Society" and "Juice."

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5 out of 5 stars awsome, January 27, 2008
By Diego
Freaken love this movie!!

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