Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
1996 · Movie · R · 89 min · ★ 7.0 · 43% critics
A young man moves to South Central Los Angeles to live with unusual relatives and gets pulled into a wildly exaggerated version of neighborhood life. As he tries to stay on the right path, the movie turns crime drama clichés into broad, outrageous parody.
Also known as Don't be a Menace
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Details
- Years
- 1996
- Release date
- 1996-01-12
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Critic score
- 43/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (1,521 votes)
About
You'll likely enjoy this if you like loud, silly spoof comedies with constant jokes and exaggerated stereotypes, especially if Scary Movie makes you laugh; Not for you if crude humor and sketch-like plotting wear you out.
Pros: big laugh moments; quotable jokes; clever genre spoof | Cons: hit-or-miss humor; crude gags; thin story
Themes
- hip-hop
- slang
- date
- gangster
- cousin
- parody
- social satire
- hood
- gang
- racism
Cast & crew
Shawn Wayans
as Ashtray
Marlon Wayans
as Loc Dog
Tracey Cherelle Jones
as Dashiki
Chris Spencer
as Preach
Vivica A. Fox
as Ashtray's Mother
Lahmard J. Tate
as Ashtray's Father
Rappin' Granny
as Sister Williams
Suli McCullough
as Crazy Legs
Bernie Mac
as Officer Self Hatred
Faizon Love
as Rufus
Directed by Paris Barclay