Rotten
Full of very obvious spoofery, and funnier in concept than in execution.
Godfrey Cheshire, Variety
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
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.
1996 · 1h 29m · R
Comedy, Crime
Directed by
Paris Barclay
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?
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
32%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A free-for-all comic spoof that brings the 'hood' genre of Hollywood films full circle.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten
Rude, crude and outrageous.
Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
Fresh
Outrageous is the key word here. In many successful scenes, the Wayans deftly play on our assumptions and cliches.
Esther Iverem, Washington Post
Fresh
Things might be bad, the movie suggests, but they're not so bad you can't laugh.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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