Product Details

• Actors: Melissa De Sousa, John Witherspoon, Cedric the Entertainer, Malik Yoba, Fredro Starr
• Directors: Millicent Shelton
• Writers: Millicent Shelton
• Producers: Bob Weinstein, Cary Granat, Ernest Johnson, Harvey Weinstein, Reginald Hudlin
• 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: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305051119
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #279,972 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

When Leta (Melissa De Sousa) gets a job as an assistant to a big-time rap video director, she doesn't realize her duties will consist of chaperoning a bus full of would-be rap stars from Harlem. Ride follows this collection of hip-hop misfits on a smelly, broken-down charter bus that they have to take to get to Miami for a video shoot in 24 hours. Naturally, there's bickering, breakdowns, impromptu jam sessions, and a lot of bonding. Leta finds an ally in Poppa (Malik Yoba), an old friend of the music producer who wants to start a program for youth in the inner city. Meanwhile, Poppa's younger brother has stolen a backpack full of money from a couple of thieves who are not happy about it and are tracking him down--but story isn't really the point in Ride. This is a movie about elaborate insults and verbal riffs, a nonstop flow of talk ranging from the bad-girl back and forth of a female rap duo to the crazed mixture of bragging and trash from the middle-aged bus drivers who cast an unfazed eye at these aspiring ghetto stars. Fleshed out with scatological humor, loony dream sequences, and a soundtrack featuring the Wu-Tang Clan, Onyx, and Naughty by Nature, Ride is slapdash but entertaining. Also featuring cameos from Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre, Downtown Julie Brown, Redman, and others. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Actually better then i thought, February 25, 2000

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Tony_Tone "Anthony Jamal Smith" (Washington, D.C., District of Columbia United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ride [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I must say when i saw this film when it was first release in theatres i didnt know what expect.. I thought just some second rate low budget comedy.. with the laughs comin at crude humour..but to my surprise the laughs were ginuwine.. they were forced like you get in some movies.. a good cast of hip hoppers, unknowns, veterans.. a Slamming Soundtrack ! made this movie very entertaining

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars The most ridiculously stupid movie, November 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Ride [VHS] (VHS Tape)

A movie with a so called "righteous black man" and some students he takes to Florida the possibility of making in entertainment only in the end to buy into the sterotype of black entertainers.

5.0 out of 5 stars A damn funny movie. Girls, music, laughs, everything!, June 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Ride [VHS] (VHS Tape)

It was such a funny movie and I laughed the whole time. There wasn't a part where I said that was stupid. I just watched it 5 minutes ago and I'm still laughing.