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

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

R

1996

1h 28m

Comedy

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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).

Godfrey Cheshire

Variety

02/05/2008

Full of very obvious spoofery, and funnier in concept than in execution.

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Stephen Holden

New York Times

08/30/2004

3/5

A free-for-all comic spoof that brings the 'hood' genre of Hollywood films full circle.

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Joey O'Bryan

Austin Chronicle

01/01/2000

0.5/5

If I see one more movie featuring that current favorite of obnoxious movie stereotypes -- the pair of abrasive Asian convenience store owners -- I'm not going to even going to think twice before getting up and leaving the theatre.

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Sheila Reid

Women in the Life

05/13/2022

The Wayans boys are back! Their satires are silly and sometimes hilarious, but more importantly they enable us to laugh at ourselves.

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Mal Vincent

The Virginian-Pilot

03/01/2022

1.5/4

Only briefly do the writers attempt any humor that is inflammatory, however. They go, mainly, for broad slapstick - aiming low.

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Deborah Hornblow

Hartford Courant

01/02/2018

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.

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Damon G

@Dmoney420 Feb 22

Classic comedy loved this

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Bboy N.

@BboyNightmare Feb 8

A perfect example of how a parody movie should be.

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Sani K

@Khan143 Jan 20

One of the funniest movie I ever watched after scary movie 1/2

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Cort S

@RT79555957 Sep 20

If you’re looking for a funny movie. This is it. Hilarious cast.

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К.А. K

@RT74633594 Apr 15

A vulgar, quirky, but insanely funny parody of the Ganster movies from the early 90’s. In our time such a film is probably impossible to shoot.

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James N

@RT34682617 03/21/2025

I watched this movie at least 100 times when I was a teenager. It was sooo funny then and still makes me laugh now just a little differently as an adult.

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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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