And is his romance with self-styled poet Dashiki Tracey Cherelle Jones going to go anywhere? And when all else fails, they can just drop the delusions of satire and deliver a half-naked fat woman, a foul-mouthed stoner granny, or simply a loud fart joke. Not counting the end credits, the thing runs just about 89 minutes, so I can't imagine anything more than 120 seconds or so was added back in. Made by movie fans, for movie fans. It's as if the Wayans Brothers Damon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory just sat down with a pile of movies and just snagged whatever they thought they could spin, tweak, or parody with the least amount of effort or creativity. Will Ashtray keep living the straight life or will he join up with Loc Dog's gangsta homeboys? For example, Ashtray is older than his father and his best friend Loc Dog's grandmother is a trigger-happy old lady who blames her eccentric-looking kid for not being tough enough.
Big brother Keenen has a small role as a mailman. We follow Ashtray as he returns to the place he grew up in and meet his father and his basket-case friends. Tray Ashtray gets an accelerated crash course about living life on the streets from his pistol packing and more often than not psychotic cousin. And he's not even the worst thing about the movie. He reconnects with his best buddy and cousin Loc Dog Marlon Wayans , a gang-banger who considers that a thermonuclear warhead is apart of his arsenal of weapons. It sure isn't crisp or all that colorful, but it was a cheap-looking movie from the start, anyway. While trying to cope with his new life and the stress of inner city living, he falls in love with beautiful and enigmatic Daishiki Tracey Cherelle Jones.
Frankly I'm surprised that Leslie Nielsen didn't show up as a daffy high-school teacher. The brothers seem to believe that if an audience member simply recognizes a joke's source material, then their job is finished and they can move on to the next desperate sketch. Final Thoughts You'd have to search far and wide to find a more desperately unfunny and hopelessly mug-laden performance than the one offered by Shawn Wayans in this aggressively amateurish spoof. We all know Miramax is going through some serious struggles these days, but fans of this particular flick probably deserve a little better than what's offered here. Optional subtitles are available in English, Spanish, and French. But here's the rub: Just making a bunch of broad and obvious references to well-known films is not the stuff of classic spoof-dom.
Those same fans will also be treated to one whole deleted scene that's packing zero in the laughs department. Isn't this the same designation they gave to their phenomenal Trainspotting re-release? Born from the goofball spoof subgenre created by Airplane! Before long, Ashtray's nuclear-armed gangster cousin Loc Dog Marlon Wayans introduces him to a bizarrely comic crime underworld. When Ashtray Shawn Wayans moves to South Central L. We search near and far for original movie trailer from all decades. I'd say Rent It if you already dig the flick, but don't be surprised if your opinion of the movie sinks the longer it goes on.
Basically, there's maybe three or four half-decent chuckles to be found in this otherwise interminable 90-minute mega-chore. Luckily, Ashtray falls for urban poet Dashiki Tracey Cherelle Jones , and she convinces him to go straight -- but he must deal with her manic ex-boyfriend Toothpick Darrel Heath. The disc opens with trailers for Mindhunters and Scary Movie 3. Shawn Wayans stars as Ashtray, a hardened dimwitted homeboy who returns to his Ôhood Ôin South Central Los Angeles to live with his father Lahmard Tate , who he is older and more mature than, and his pot-smoking grandmother Helen Martin. This afternoon was my first visit with Don't Be a Menace.
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