Product Details

• Actors: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Isaac Hayes
• Directors: Keenen Ivory Wayans
• Writers: Keenen Ivory Wayans
• Producers: Carl Craig, Eric Barrett, Eric L. Gold, Peter McCarthy, Raymond Katz
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• VHS Release Date: January 16, 1996
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301970020
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #286,313 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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From Keenen Ivory Wayans, the man who brought us Jim Carrey (initially just one of the bunch on Wayans's television comedy-sketch show, In Living Color), comes I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), a comedy spoof on the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Wayans plays Jack Spade, an army private just returning from the service. He comes home to find his younger brother June Bug dead of a overdose of gold chains (an "O.G.") He vows revenge, and with the help of some of the neighborhood's old school heroes including Flyguy (Antonio Fargas), Kung Fu Joe (Steve James), Hammer (Isaac Hayes), Slammer (football star Jim Brown), and John Slade (Bernie Casey), Spade wages a war against Mr. Big, the neighborhood crime lord.

In the tradition of Airplane! and Naked Gun, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka pokes fun through satire and offensive comedy. The film also features some of the players that would end up on In Living Color and has appearances from such varied actors as Clarence Williams III, Eve Plumb (better known to most as Jan Brady), and Chris Rock as a rib-joint customer. --Shannon Gee

Product Description

A hilarious Soul Cinema send-up, this ultra-slick, urban action comedy blows 70's blaxploitation movies right out of the 'hood! Featuring the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect "mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor" (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto to discover that his brother, Junebug, has OG'd (Over-Golded on jewelry). Jack swears revenge against the local gang boss, Mr. Big, and sets off to enlist an army of Shaft, Superfly and Black Caesarlook-a-likes, that is. They don't come easy, cheap or youngbut they do have nice clothes and enough firepower left in them to practically destroy Mr. Big's Big Brim Bar where the bad guys wearyou guessed itbig hats!

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SHE'S THE DIRECTOR'S SISTER, June 15, 2004

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Michael Butts (Berkeley Springs, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (DVD)

I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA is one hilarious film; even though many of the jokes fall flat at times, the whole is superlative tongue in cheek satire. A broad humored satire of those wonderful 70's "black exploitation" films, Wayans and crew serve up scene after scene of hilarity. For instance: a sleazy girl is singing a sultry version of "When the Saints Come Marching In," and when Wayans asks who she is, the waitress says "She's the director's sister." (She is!). When ex-football star Jim Brown asks Wayans why he thinks he's qualified to be a black hero, Wayans tells him "I'm an ex football player." When Dawnn Lewis as Wayans' sweetie gets the cramps, she really gets cranky!! John Vernon as Mr. Big spouts off why shouldn't he be in a black exploitation movie, other actors have! There are so many scenes like this that one can't help but laugh and laugh again.
Featuring a cavalcade of black and white actors, including Clarence Williams III, Isaac Hayes, Ja'net Dubois, Antonio Fargas and Steve James, I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA is a hoot to watch!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Black Cinema, January 14, 2007

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L. Jerome "jamdown" (Silver Spring, Maryland USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (DVD)

This movie stands the test of time and is still as hilarious today as it was when it was released. You will laugh out loud as the ridiculousness and fashion excesses of the 70s are mocked. Keenan really outdid himself with this one. "Huggy Bear" wearing gold fish filled glass heeled shoes after coming out of jail is too hilarious for words.

Watch and enjoy.

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you DON'T want to laugh, then don't watch this video!, July 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: I'm Gonna Git You Sucka [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is too funny!! You will kill yourself laughing...I saw this movie with a friend and we almost hurt ourselves falling off the sofa when we saw the movie. There are some classic spots...when Heat of Night actress...kicks off her leg, and says "don't make me hop after you"...that whole scene is wild...also, LaDawn, who was not feeling well, had to go home, and she was about to be attacked, and went off on the attacker, and he said what's wrong with you, you got the devil in you, response..."NO. CRAMPS". You've got to see it to believe it...Antonio Fargas's fish shoes, Kung Fu Joe...fighting and leaving the phone message. Then there's the scene where, Isaac Hayes, straps on the guns...well you just watch. Chris Rock, who wanted to order one rib and get a "sip" of soda...with a wad of money. Move the soda and popcorn out of the way, because they're going to be spilled all over the sofa! If you want to laugh like you've never laughed before, watch "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka".