A parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance Boyz n the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), Menace II Society (1993), Higher Learning (1995) and Juice (1992).A parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance Boyz n the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), Menace II Society (1993), Higher Learning (1995) and Juice (1992).A parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance Boyz n the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), Menace II Society (1993), Higher Learning (1995) and Juice (1992).
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Darrel Heath
- Toothpick
- (as Darrell Heath)
Lahmard J. Tate
- Ashtray's Father
- (as Lahmard Tate)
Joe Scott
- Birthday Cake Boy
- (as Joe 'Nub' Scott)
Vivica A. Fox
- Ashtray's Mother
- (as Vivica Fox)
Leonette Scott
- Flashback Girl
- (as Lee Scott)
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- Trivia(at around 4 mins) Early in the film, Shawn Wayans's character says that his father is only a few years older than him. Lahmard J. Tate, who plays Ashtray's father, is less than two years older than Wayans. Cuba Gooding Jr. is only 7 years younger than Laurence Fishburne, who played his character's father in Boyz n the Hood (1991).
- Goofs(at around 9 mins) When Ashtray is getting a haircut from his dad, in one frame he's wearing a barber cape in the next one he's not wearing one, then right before the scene is over he's wearing it again.
- Crazy creditsRobert Schimmel is listed in the opening credits, yet he does not appear anywhere in the film, and is missing from the end credits.
- Alternate versionsThe Unrated version contains the following alternate scenes: Loc Dog's chat with the thug chick at the barbecue is extended; After Ashtray is released from jail Loc Dog, Preach and Crazy Legs play a game of Po'Nopoly; Loc Dog's dream is shown at the Old School scene; During Toothpick's drive by, instead of Ashtray running away he tries to save Dashiki, making more sense why he is suddenly lying on the ground; When grandma is said to have the "juice", she chops the guy's head off and puts it in her purse, referring to 'Dead Presidents'.
- SoundtracksFood Fight
Written by E. Humphrey, Shock-G (as G. Jacobs), T. Jones
Zomba Songs Inc./Pubhowyalike (administered by Zomba Songs Inc.) (BMI)/T. Jones
Performed by Digital Underground (as digital underground)
Produced by DA' D-Flow Pro-Diduction Squid-OD
(P) 1996 Island Records, Inc., a PolyGram Company
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I laughed until I was exhausted; not for those easily offended by black stereotypes
How many gags involving offensive portrayals of African Americans can one movie have? This film may have reached the limit.
There was not so much a plot as there was a series of jokes showing black people in a less than positive light. In the movie's first five minutes, two young black men are gunned down. A hysterical mother cries over the body of her 'baby' until she realizes the young man isn't hers, and then she quickly calms down and becomes quite indifferent.
Ashtray arrives in the 'hood' in a car driven by his mother, who wants Ashtray to live with his father. The mother will not be seen again, because, as she says, there can be no positive black women in this movie. The father actually appears to be younger than Ashtray, who recalls at one point in the movie that he used to change his father's diapers.
Ashtray meets a girl named Dashiki, who is described as having more children than Mrs. Wayans. He is introduced to those children, all sitting in a row, some not even black like their mother. Asked 'What do you say?', the children all reply in unison, 'Are you my daddy?' (Despite the presence of children, this movie should not be seen by anyone under the age of, say, 21. At least I saw an edited version.) Later in the movie, Ashtray must decide whether he wants to make a commitment to Dashiki.
About halfway through the movie, either I became immune to the jokes or the movie ran out of creative energy. Or maybe the writers just wanted to give us a rest, because it was desperately needed. But the laughs soon started up again. Some samples of the humor:
-A refrigerator was full of '40', an alcoholic beverage which it seemed everyone drank (even a baby bottle was filled with something the same color as '40'). A water cooler was refilled using '40'.
-In front of a Korean-owned grocery, one of several black men in a car pulled a gun on Loc Dog. Loc Dog had a larger gun. The man pulled out an even bigger gun. Loc Dog opened the back of his truck to reveal a missile labeled 'USSR'.
-At a party, one black man refused to dance with a beautiful black woman, deciding instead that he wanted a hideously ugly white woman.
-Loc Dog did everything possible to mess up his job interview, when his competition appeared to be Ivy League educated whites with the personality typically associated with Harvard. He got the job anyway. I won't say what job, but it suited him.
-A black cop and a white cop arrested Ashtray and Loc Dog just for being black. The black cop seemed to genuinely hate blacks without even seeming aware he was himself black.
-A road test for a driver's license included the license examiner robbing a bank.
I highly recommend this movie for anyone who just needs a good laugh and does not care about quality or being offended.
There was not so much a plot as there was a series of jokes showing black people in a less than positive light. In the movie's first five minutes, two young black men are gunned down. A hysterical mother cries over the body of her 'baby' until she realizes the young man isn't hers, and then she quickly calms down and becomes quite indifferent.
Ashtray arrives in the 'hood' in a car driven by his mother, who wants Ashtray to live with his father. The mother will not be seen again, because, as she says, there can be no positive black women in this movie. The father actually appears to be younger than Ashtray, who recalls at one point in the movie that he used to change his father's diapers.
Ashtray meets a girl named Dashiki, who is described as having more children than Mrs. Wayans. He is introduced to those children, all sitting in a row, some not even black like their mother. Asked 'What do you say?', the children all reply in unison, 'Are you my daddy?' (Despite the presence of children, this movie should not be seen by anyone under the age of, say, 21. At least I saw an edited version.) Later in the movie, Ashtray must decide whether he wants to make a commitment to Dashiki.
About halfway through the movie, either I became immune to the jokes or the movie ran out of creative energy. Or maybe the writers just wanted to give us a rest, because it was desperately needed. But the laughs soon started up again. Some samples of the humor:
-A refrigerator was full of '40', an alcoholic beverage which it seemed everyone drank (even a baby bottle was filled with something the same color as '40'). A water cooler was refilled using '40'.
-In front of a Korean-owned grocery, one of several black men in a car pulled a gun on Loc Dog. Loc Dog had a larger gun. The man pulled out an even bigger gun. Loc Dog opened the back of his truck to reveal a missile labeled 'USSR'.
-At a party, one black man refused to dance with a beautiful black woman, deciding instead that he wanted a hideously ugly white woman.
-Loc Dog did everything possible to mess up his job interview, when his competition appeared to be Ivy League educated whites with the personality typically associated with Harvard. He got the job anyway. I won't say what job, but it suited him.
-A black cop and a white cop arrested Ashtray and Loc Dog just for being black. The black cop seemed to genuinely hate blacks without even seeming aware he was himself black.
-A road test for a driver's license included the license examiner robbing a bank.
I highly recommend this movie for anyone who just needs a good laugh and does not care about quality or being offended.
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- vchimpanzee
- Jul 15, 2003
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- Не погрожуй Південному Централу, попиваючи сік у себе в кварталі
- Filming locations
- S 7th Ave & Montclair St, Los Angeles, California, USA(Drive-by shooting at the end)
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Box office
- Budget
- $3,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,109,115
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $8,112,884
- Jan 14, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $20,949,601
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By what name was Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) officially released in India in English?
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