| | | Exclusive Special Edition With All-New Bonus Material
Features: DVD
Now, add to your comedy collection the UNRATED Special Edition release of the outrageous motion picture that had critics and moviegoers roaring with laughter ... from the creators of Scary Movie. From block parties and beepers to high tops and high-powered weapons, it's everything that's funny about growing up in the 'hood ... the Wayans Brothers' neighborhood, that is! Marlon, Shawn (both from White Chicks), and Keenen Ivory Wayans (A Low Down Dirty Shame) get together and deliver a series of hilarious situations that all move to a hot hit soundtrack! Get ready for a good time, because there are plenty of laughs in this neighborhood!
"...something to offend and amuse everyone..." Barry Walters, San Francisco Examiner
"The parodies are done with finesse and imagination." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Editor's Note
An antidote to the 1990s spate of urban coming-of-age films. The tale of a black youth sent to live with his father in the 'hood, this spoof parodies the key elements of such "serious" movies as "Boyz N the Hood," "Menace II Society" and "Juice."
Plot Summary
This film is a parody of the recent "hood" movies made by African-American directors, in particular John Singleton's "Boyz 'N the Hood." | The plot focuses on Ashtray, a do-gooder who comes to South Central L.A. to live with his father. Unfortunately, Dad turns out to be a poor role model, as he extols the virtues of unsafe sex and drunk driving. Ashtray's cousin Loc Dog is no better, with his hair-trigger temper and extensive weaponry (including a nuclear bomb). Ashtray manages to find romance with a pretty poet named Dashiki, but it turns out that she's a little too popular with the men in her neighborhood -- and not for her writing skills.| Will Ashtray become disillusioned by what he's seen and experienced in South Central?
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 9/1/2006 |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 4045803 | | UPC: 00786936286830 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Memorable Quotes| "One out of ten black men will be forced to sit through a `growing up in the hood movie' during their lifetime. One out of five will be shot in the theater." ---- statistics at the beginning of the movie | | "We're an endangered species. The rappers are getting all the good acting jobs." ---- Ashtray (SHAWN WAYANS), to one of Dashiki's many children, who is armed with a gun | | "...you know there ain't no positive black females in these movies." ---- a middle--class mom, saying goodbye to her son, and explaining why she won't appear in the film again |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...This savage parody of the many recent coming-of-age-in-the-ghetto melodramas is rude, crude and outrageous..." 01/15/1996 p.4DVariety
"...Spirited and hilarious..." 01/15/1996 New York Times
"...A free-for-all comic spoof....Beneath the hysteria, you can feel the movie's boiling rage..." 01/13/1996 p.C21 FilmCritic.com 2 of 10
Before they found an audience with Scary Movie, the Wayans clan tried their hand at parody, and the result is even worse. Don't Be a Menace... aims to spoof "urban/gangsta/growing up in the hood" films, a genre which (like Scream), has already become a parody of itself. There are zero laughs in this stupid, stupid movie -- unless "homies drinkin' 40s" with their pants a-fallin' strikes you as a particularly insightful parody. - Christopher Null
Washington Post 6 of 10
Don't Be a Menace... constantly draws attention to the fact that it is a movie. It makes no effort to pull us into a fictional world or to draw our sympathy. At the beginning of the film, as Ashtray's mother takes him to live with his father, she tells him she won't see him again because "You know there aren't any positive females in these movies." Later, Ashtray tells a little boy that both of them are part of an endangered species. "Why, because we're black males?" the boy asks him. "No," Ashtray replies, "because rappers are taking all the good acting jobs." - Esther Iverem
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