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

1996 · 89 min

A rapid-fire, silly spoof packed with slapstick and gross-out gags that lampoons hood movies with gleeful abandon.

Directed by
Paris Barclay
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Starring
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones
Tagline
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.
Overview
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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Directed by
Paris Barclay
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Starring
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones
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How it feels

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • race
  • class
  • crime
  • family
  • friendship
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror2
Humour9
Realism2
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity3
Emotional weight2

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