Hip Hop Hood - All hell breaks loose in the neighborhood

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Movie
German title Hip Hop Hood - All hell breaks loose in the neighborhood
Original title Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Paris Barclay
script Phil Beauman
Marlon Wayans
Shawn Wayans
production Eric L. Gold
Keenen Ivory Wayans
music John Barnes
camera Russ Brandt
cut Marshall Harvey
William Young
occupation

Hip Hop Hood is an American comedy satire from 1996 by Paris Barclay . It parodies the life of the ghetto . The original title, which is usually only abbreviated with (Don't Be a Menace) , means in German : Don't pose a threat to South Central, if you want to have respect and credibility on the street with us.

action

Ashtray ( Shawn Wayans ) - which means ashtray in English - lived with his mother since he was born. Now, however, a “real man” has to be made out of him, and only his father can do that. Henceforth he lives in the house of his father, who is younger than himself. In the course of the story you get to know many relatives of Ashtray; his cousin Loc Dog ( Marlon Wayans ) and his crazy grandmother, the friends of Loc Dog and many other residents of the neighborhood.

Eventually Ashtray meets the multiple mother Dashiki ( Tracey Cherelle Jones ) know. Despite Loc Dog's many warnings, he has his first date with her, which ends in an argument. When a former friend of Dashiki finds out that Ashtray was on a date with Dashiki, he only wants one thing: revenge. One day he ambushes Ashtray with his gang and tries to force him out of the neighborhood. Fortunately, Ashtray's cousin will be there to make short work of the gang brothers. The gang flees, but swears revenge.

Ashtray makes peace with Dashiki again, and the two want to marry soon. Despite many other hardships, the film ends with a happy ending. Dashiki and Ashtray get married and leave the neighborhood - which Ashtray has slowly grown to love.

parody

The whole film parodies the genre of films made in the 1990s by Afro-American directors, who told more or less realistic stories from the black and minority populated areas of major American cities, with everyday violence and crime as the central theme. Individual scenes from these films are recognizably parodied so that a series of loosely linked episodes is created. Depending on the genre, it revolves around the “gangster life” in the ghetto, the prejudices against people of different colors, prostitution, corrupt police officers, the possession of weapons, sexism.

The original title is an allusion to the films Menace II Society , Friday , South Central , Juice , Boyz n the Hood , Poetic Justice and Dead Presidents , which were little known to the German audience at the time of publication.

Age ratings

While the film is approved for ages 12 and up in a number of countries, in some countries the film is only allowed to be viewed from 14 years of age and in the UK from 15 years of age. In the USA the film is R-Rated which is the equivalent of an FSK 18 rating.

Reviews

  • Lexicon of international film : Dramaturgically conceptless and only funny in a few moments, the film breaks down into an insignificant collection of inferior gags.
  • The film critic Antje Krum of the magazine edited did not find any entertaining plot in the film. Hip Hop Hood is a number revue . but without the necessary speed, occasional laughter, but again and again yawning emptiness.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hip Hop Hood - Hell's going on in the neighborhood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 16, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Hip Hop Hood ( Memento from April 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )