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How did you buy your ticket? View All Photos Movie Info. 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.
Paris Barclay. Eric L. Gold , Keenen Ivory Wayans. Sep 20, Shawn Wayans Ashtray. Marlon Wayans Loc Dog. Tracey Cherelle Jones Dashiki. Chris Spencer Preach. Suli McCullough Crazy Legs. Add your rating See all 1 parent review. Add your rating. He starts to learn the ways of the streets from his gun-toting cousin Loc Dog Marlon Wayans , as well as friends Preach and Crazy Legs.
At a party, Tray falls hard for Dashiki, a woman with several kids from different fathers. This arouses jealousy in Toothpick, a recently paroled gang member. Things come to a head shortly after in the parking lot of a corner store when Toothpick rolls up in his convertible with his friends on the verge of killing Ashtray and Loc Dog in a drive-by that's only prevented when Loc Dog threatens to fire the nuclear warhead he keeps in the back of his truck.
Ashtray soon sleeps with Dashiki, who immediately tells him she's pregnant with his child. Tensions continue to escalate between Toothpick's and Ashtray's posses, and Ashtray wants nothing more than to survive the impending shootout and take Dashiki and her children with him out of the hood. This parody has moments that are still hilarious decades after its initial release. Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood is at its best and most timeless when the humor transcends the genre of the movies it's parodying.
The recurring joke of Keenen Ivory Wayans as the mailman who turns to the camera and yells "Message! The references to the OJ Simpson case and Bernie Mac as a black police officer who hates black people have also stood the test of time. As for the rest, some of it depends on your taste in humor, and some of it simply hasn't aged well.
There's a lot of humor in sight gags and exaggeration that almost reaches the gut laughs of a parody like Airplane! The parodies of stock characters in the "hood" movies of the '90s sometimes make it unclear what the target of the humor is supposed to be: the way these movies are written or the people themselves. In other words, while it's safe to give the Wayans the benefit of the doubt that they're obviously not making fun of welfare recipients, stronger and more thoughtful humor might have been employed instead of fridges with blocks of clearly labeled government cheese.
And jokes involving snipers killing innocent people don't seem all that funny anymore in a country with so many mass shootings. References to drinking 40s and smoking blunts are also beyond played-out by this point. Families can talk about parody movies. How do parody movies stand out on their own? What were the different styles of comedy used in this movie? What is the difference between parody and satire?
How is exaggeration used for comedic effect? What serious points was the movie trying to make through comedy? Why is comedy often a good way to make serious points? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners. See how we rate. Streaming options powered by JustWatch. Common Sense Media, a nonprofit organization, earns a small affiliate fee from Amazon or iTunes when you use our links to make a purchase.
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Over-the-top parody has frequent cursing, raunchy humor. R 89 minutes. Rate movie. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. You can take me to jail! Shit, lock me up! Throw away the key! I ain't 'fraid to fuck somebody in his ass! Dashiki: Oh, so you're man enough to come up in me, but you ain't man enough to take care of what comes out, get my nails done, pay my rent, and get me a new car? You know what? You ain't nothing but a little boy.
Ashtray: Ain't all about the size of the boat! It's the motion in the ocean.
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