Product Details

• Actors: Master P, Anthony Johnson, Gretchen Palmer, Frantz Turner, Richard Keats
• Directors: Michael Martin
• Writers: Master P, Leroy Douglas, Carrie Mungo
• Producers: Andrew Shack, Bryan Turner, Jonathan Heuer, Leroy Douglas
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: February 6, 2001
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305087393
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #33,415 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Hip-hop czar Master P cowrote, executive produced, and stars in I Got the Hook-Up, which is truly one of the more surreal urban comedies ever seen. P plays Black, a small-time hustler who scams a shipment of cell phones. With his partner Blue (A.J. Johnson) and semi-girlfriend Lorraine (Gretchen Palmer), Black snags a bit of cellular service from a large corporation and starts making a bundle from cell-phone sales. Unfortunately, the phones are a bit undependable, and a gangbanger accidentally broadcasts the location of a package of cash over the radio, setting off a treasure hunt. The gangbanger swears vengeance on Black and Blue, the cellular company starts investigating the surge in use, the FBI gets involved--everyone's on the hunt for our heroes. This plot description, however, is much more direct than the way it plays out. I Got the Hook-Up is a bizarre conglomeration of oddball characters and odd, off-the-cuff incidents, such as when a couple of cops get called in for a domestic dispute, only to discover one of the cop's wives, a dwarf, having an affair with a guy in a leather bat suit. Or there's the funeral of a gangster that turns into a brawl; the pleasure palace a TV repairman has in the back of his shop; an FBI interrogation in which the agents tear off Mission: Impossible-style rubber masks--the plot quickly gets lost in the madness. Which is not a bad thing, really. Tall, laconic P and short, excitable Johnson make an appealing Mutt and Jeff comic duo. Featuring cameos by Ice Cube, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and others. --Bret Fetzer

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FUNNY MOVIE, January 9, 2004

By	Mike Leon "Bezzie" (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Got the Hook-Up (DVD)

this movie is the funnyiest stuff i have ever seen in my life, and it is a bonus for me that bone thugs n harmony sing on the soundtrack, i own it, anywayays, yea this movie has master p-black, and A.J. Johnson, blue, i liked it because it was gansta, i liek gangsta movies, so go out and get this DVD.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FUNNY., March 1, 2003

By	Erica (Sarasota Florida USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: I Got the Hook-Up (DVD)

THIS MOVIE IS A MUST AND A GOTTA SEE. ITS FUNNY HOW HE MADE HIE OWN PHONE CPMOANY IN JUST THAT AMOUNBT OF TIME. YALL GOTTA SEE THIS MOVIE.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DA BEST NO LIMIT FILM, April 21, 2002

By	AV$ TRU (LONDON, UK) - See all my reviews

I'm the biggest Nolimit fan and this was a great film.
1st, it was funny
2nd, loads of actors; ice cube, P, C, DEEBO (from friday), snoop, and loads more.
3rd, this was the best acted film by NO LIMIT because it had better actors and it was'nt just another gangsta drug and violence film.
Even if u dont even like NO LIMIT this will defenetly surprise u.
The soundtrack is good as well, with appearences by; MASTER P, C-MURDER, SILKK, MIA X, MYSTIKAL, FIEND, SNOOP, MONTELL JORDAN, JAY Z, UGK, and many many more.
TRU