Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood Details

It's a great title, and there's no denying that the ghetto drama genre is ripe for send-up. However, the fact that this didn't even make it to video in Britain is an indication of how dire it is. The spoofing is lazy, and the plotting ramshackle and tasteless. Not even the presence of what appears to be the entire Wayans family (Marlon, Shawn, Keenen Ivory and Craig) can save this sorry mess. Following the release of Scary Movie, it's good to see how awful that similarly themed blockbuster could have been.

Broad-humoured satire that sends up socially conscious movies of black experience; the jokes are usually coarse and sometimes funny.