Product Details

• Actors: Gary Busey, C-Murder, Shireen Crutchfield, Pamella D'Pella, Snoop Dogg
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: September 5, 2000
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305741972
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #80,268 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good movie by No Limit Films, April 28, 2000

By	"lil_p" (Dallas,Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Boyz [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This movie was pretty cool. It featured Silkk,C-Murder,Snoop,Mystikal,A.J. Johnson,Gary Busey and more. Yhe starring role belonged to Silkk playing a character known as "Cool". He was a good kid and had a blakc belt in karate and wanted to be a rapper. But is girlfriend got convicted of a crime and she was pregnant in jail with his baby. She died in prison by being beaten, and "Cool" just flipped out. He forgot about life and went into the neverending dope game. With his click known as the Hotboyz(C-Murder,Snoop,Mystikal,A.J. Johnson). The got into slaning and dealing with cocain until they got caught. This was a cool movie, if you see it somewhere chech it out.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bad acting, July 21, 2005

By	Ronnie Clay "R.C." (Winnsboro, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hot Boyz (DVD)

Master P directed this movie however he did not have a big part of being in this movie that sucked. Silk wants to be a rapper his girlfriend is framed for murdering a cop. Silk does whatever he can to go undercover and clear his girlfriends name. The only time Silk acting was good in this movie was when he was in the hospital crying for real right before his girlfriend died. The action was not all that bad especially when Silk was in that car driving all around in circles away from the cops and land into the water.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars HOT BOYZ Review, September 10, 2003

By	Crazy Jim (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews

In the glory days of No Limit's rap franchise, Master P took "overexposure" to glorious new heights with this very stupid "strugglin' in the hood" tale.

Silk The Shocker (P's younger brother) is Kool, a self-proclaimed thug who turns to a life of crime when his girlfriend gets framed for a crime after witnessing a murder. What? Anyways, the story flip-flops all over the place, taking time to throw in every major cliche possible. Kool is an aspiring rapper who also practices martial arts and specializes in car chases. He tries to make a deal with Gary Busey's crooked cop but it doesn't work to his advantage.

After his girlfriend is murdered, and his subsquent careers as a martial artist, rapper, basketball player, and NASCAR driver fail, Kool joins up with a crew featuring No Limit rappers, Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, C-Murder, and comedian Anthony "A.J." Johnson. The crew nicknamed the "Hot Boyz" is a gang that murders major drug dealers in an attempt to take the drug game for themselves. Well, of course.

Once you hear the cheesy opening monolouge from Master P's overacting little bro, you know what you're getting into with this one. Master P's over-contrived script takes "suspension of disbelief" to brave new heights. In particular, many of the scenes involving Gary Busey's cop character make no sense. In one scene, Kool agrees to set up a major drug dealer played by veteran actor Clifton Powell. Before the situation unfolds, Busey murders a man in cold blood and threatens to blame it on Kool if he doesn't help him out. The motivation for any cop, no matter how crooked he is, to blackmail someone who has already agreed to help him out is non-existent. But wait it gets worse. After deciding to take on a life of crime, gangster Kool shows up at Busey's house and robs him of his entire gun collection. That's right. A police informant shows up at a cop's house with a pistol and robs in the middle of the day. There's a believable scenerio. Of course, at the end of the day, the drug-dealing gangster leaves a trail of dead bodies including rival drug dealers and decorated police officers but due to him "having a good lawyer", he doesn't end up in prison.

Master P the screenwriter is certainly trying hard but he ends up with Ed Wood results. This whole story is just awful. While it tries to play itself in the same veign as classic urban films such as BOYZ N THE HOOD and MENACE II SOCIETY, it could not be any more of a failure. Where those films showed a realistic portrait of "black America", this one is just going out of its way to take on every element of the action genre. Kool's outlaw attitude has no moral or truly negative outcome. He is just the ultimate black action cliche. "Hot Boyz" is certainly never boring but it seems to blast its way into a series of nonsensical situations before ending more ridicilously than it started.