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
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: February 6, 2001
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (41 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305087393
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #281,468 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This Movie was Great, October 5, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: I Got the Hook Up [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie is funny. Buy it no

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is the tightest movie ever by p, June 11, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: I Got the Hook Up [VHS] (VHS Tape)

it's hella cool one event after another just like friday good plot t

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE MASTER P WITH ALL MY HEART SO THE MOVIE WAS GREAT, April 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: I Got the Hook Up [VHS] (VHS Tape)

MASTER P IS GERAT MY NAME IS BRITTANY HUNT I LIVE IN HOUSTON TEXAS MASTER P IS A SPECIAL PERSON IN MY LIFE