Product Details

• Actors: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Chris Spencer
• Directors: Paris Barclay
• Writers: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Phil Beauman
• Producers: Carrie Morrow, Cristal Rivera-Mitchel, Dan Genetti, Eric L. Gold
• Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Miramax
• DVD Release Date: September 20, 2005
• Run Time: 89 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (165 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009X75V0
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,247 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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This wants desperately to be an Airplane-like parody of inner-city African American gangsta movies. Instead, it offers us more turkey than we would find at any Thanksgiving spread. Unfunny, stereotypical, stupid, and crass, it was cowritten by Marlon and Shawn Wayans, both of whom should have known better. The two fare better as actors than writers, as they are almost amusing as hardened, dimwitted homeboys. As Ashtray, Shawn returns to his 'hood and hooks up with his best buddy (Marlon) before the two embark on a series of oh-so-wacky adventures. Siblings Keenen Ivory, Kim, and Craig Wayans also make appearances. If you really want a laugh, watch Booty Call. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Product Description

Now, add to your comedy collection the UNRATED Special Edition release of the outrageous motion picture that had critics and moviegoers roaring with laughter ... from the creators of SCARY MOVIE. From block parties and beepers to high tops and high-powered weapons, it's everything that's funny about growing up in the 'hood ... the Wayans Brothers' neighborhood, that is! Marlon, Shawn (both from WHITE CHICKS), and Keenen Ivory Wayans (A LOW DOWN DIRTY SHAME) get together and deliver a series of hilarious situations that all move to a hot hit soundtrack! Get ready for a good time, because there are plenty of laughs in this neighborhood!

Customer Reviews

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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of those stupid funny movies you either love or hate, May 5, 2000

By	Christopher Ware (Fremont, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood [VHS] (VHS Tape)

There are a few conditions required for "getting" this movie. You have to understand a few things before getting the jokes. Probably the most important thing is that you've seen Boys 'N The Hood and/or Menace II Society. These two movies contain the majority of the spoofs seen in Don't Be A Menace... There are also references to Poetic Justice, Juice, and Higher Learning. Without having seen the first two, most people will probably not get the jokes. Secondly, if you're into the hip hop culture, this movie will be a lot funnier. There's a lot of play on words from the rap lingo that you won't get if you haven't listened to it.

I really enjoyed this movie. It's a hilarious spoof of gangsta movies and gangsta rap. Keenan Ivory Wayans' cameos were hilarious. Shawn and Marlon make a great comedy team. It's just too bad they don't get more exposure (they're TV show on WB is hilarious, too). It's all tongue in cheek fun pointed at the harsher looks at inner city life that we get from movies and music.

If you're one of those people that hates movies like Naked Gun, Airplane, and Spaceballs, this movie is definitely not for you. Otherwise, pick it up and try not to fall off the couch :)

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a guilty pleasure..., October 29, 2005

By	John (London, London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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This review is from: Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (DVD)

So many people just hate this film but I found it absolutely hilarious. Like the Scary Movie flicks it helps if you know the source films (Boyz N The Hood etc) fairly well. A lot of the funniest moments come from the deadpan way ludicrous lines are said, eg, of a pretty girl: 'What's her name?' 'Oh, that's Dashiki.' And the way characters refer to 'the hood' in inverted commas all the time, as in, 'I'm leaving 'the hood',' (cue gunshot). Who wouldn't laugh at the love-making scene where Trey ups the erotic ante by libating Dashiki with kool-aid then melting government-surplus cheese & dripping it like molten wax over her body? Well, a lot of people, apparently. But I laughed out loud a good many times watching this movie. The 'guilty' aspect is that it makes it almost impossible to re-watch Boyz N The Hood, Menace II Society etc in a serious manner because so many key scenes and moments are burlesqued in DBAMTSCWDYJITH.

15 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What Is Wrong With Y'all!, April 15, 2000

By	SweetC (Tulsa, Oklahoma) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood [VHS] (VHS Tape)

MY GOD! You have absolutely no sense of humor whatsoever if you didn't find at LEAST one part of this movie hysterical! I was rollin from the opening part! Who is anyone to say that I have a shallow sense of humor just because I liked it? You have to know how to laugh at certain things and everyone these days are so "politically correct" and "edgy" that they forget the funny things and don't keep it real! Obviously they've never been in the hood or known anyone like the characters in Don't Be A Menace, because there really are people like that! I think it's most likely a movie that only blacks will understand. If you're white and you loved, more power to ya. This movie is just wayy too funny!