OH NO THEY DIDN'T!!! Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) ***

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood is a parody of the so-called hood movies that pervaded the early 1990s. The sad thing is given so many potential targets, the film only focuses on a handful of juicy subjects. Everything from Jungle Fever to South Central to Do the Right Thing to Boyz n the Hood and (obviously) Menace II Society are mined for humor. Shawn Wayans stars as Ashtray (or Tray for short) and his crazed gun-toting cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), "militant" Preach (Chris Spencer), and Crazy Legs (Suli McCullough). Recounting plot is pointless since the film is enjoyable mainly in its attitude in defying the rules of logic and story-telling. Definitely a superior entry in these kinds of films. But one will be surprised at how conservative the film is at the end. Marlon's Loc Dog is alone worth the price of admission. Also features many cameos from stars of the parodied films.