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

Play trailer Poster for Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood R,  1996,  1h 28m,  Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 32% 28 Reviews Tomatometer 80% 50,000+ Ratings Popcornmeter
32% Tomatometer 28 Reviews 80% Popcornmeter 50,000+ Ratings
Innocent young black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, Ashtray's nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones), and she convinces him to go straight -- but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick (Darrel Heath).

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Godfrey Cheshire Variety Feb 5, 2008
Full of very obvious spoofery, and funnier in concept than in execution. Go to Full Review
Stephen Holden New York Times Aug 30, 2004
3/5
A free-for-all comic spoof that brings the 'hood' genre of Hollywood films full circle. Go to Full Review
Esther Iverem Washington Post Jan 1, 2000
Outrageous is the key word here. In many successful scenes, the Wayans deftly play on our assumptions and cliches. Go to Full Review
Sheila Reid Women in the Life May 13, 2022
The Wayans boys are back! Their satires are silly and sometimes hilarious, but more importantly they enable us to laugh at ourselves. Go to Full Review
Mal Vincent The Virginian-Pilot Mar 1, 2022
1.5/4
Only briefly do the writers attempt any humor that is inflammatory, however. They go, mainly, for broad slapstick - aiming low. Go to Full Review
Deborah Hornblow Hartford Courant Jan 2, 2018
2/5
Perhaps if "Menace'' had been shorter and some of the weaker sketches had been left on the cutting-room floor, it would have added up to a stronger whole. In the end, it is too small a menace to match the efforts of filmmakers like Singleton and Lee. Go to Full Review
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Rey M Jul 21, 2018 Super underrated movie. This movie is truly funny and a classic in its own regards.
Abraham P Jul 12, 2018 Tediosa Con momentos estupidamente chistosos, Un film que no cumple con el fin de entretener ya que su historia es completamente basica y no tiene ningún fin, apesar de esto esta cinta logra momentos comicos con chistes de pastelaso que logran funcionar mas que eso la cinta no es nada atractiva ni entretenida. See more
Poe R Mar 9, 2018 Back when the Wayans still produced relatively funny stuff. A solid parody flick.
George M Aug 8, 2017 How do you play a movie ?ð???
Luke L Mar 12, 2017 Very caustic satire which looks surprisingly good and relevant today too.
Kylo S Feb 8, 2017 hood classic . was great when I was a child but got a little Elementary as I got older.
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Cast & Crew

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Paris Barclay

Director

Shawn Wayans

Ashtray

Marlon Wayans

Loc Dog

Tracey Cherelle Jones

Dashiki

Chris Spencer

Preach

Suli McCullough

Crazy Legs

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

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Movie Info

Synopsis Innocent young black man Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) is forced to move into a tough Los Angeles slum with his family, including his oddly streetwise, pot-smoking grandma (Helen Martin). Before long, Ashtray's nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans) introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones), and she convinces him to go straight -- but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick (Darrel Heath).
Director
Paris Barclay
Producer
Eric L. Gold, Keenen Ivory Wayans
Screenwriter
Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Phil Beauman
Distributor
Miramax Films, Buena Vista Pictures
Production Co
Ivory Way Productions
Rating
R
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 12, 1996, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
May 23, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA)
$18.5M
Runtime
1h 28m
Sound Mix
Surround, Stereo
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