Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice In the Hood

1996 Miramax Films
Directed by: Paris Barclay; Written by: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, and Phil Beauman
Starring: Shawn and Marlon Wayans
MPAA Rating: R; Running Time: 89 Minutes
The Nicsperiment Score: 8/10

Ashtray's mom drops him off in the ghetto after telling him that there aren't any positive female role models in these types of movies. He moves in with his dad, who's the same age, and maybe actually younger than him. Ashtray then meets up with his cousin, Loc Dog, who wants to teach him the ways of the streets. He then hooks up with Dashiki, who tells him her name is Swahili for "doggy style," and she announces the moment the encounter is over that she is pregnant with his child...which will be her eighth, each by a different man. Ashtray is now determined to get himself, Dashiki, and all the kids out of the ghetto...Wayans Brothers style.
I am not sure if there is a 90s comedy with more laughs-a-minute than 1996's Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood; maybe one of the big Farrelly Brothers comedies...but I doubt it. Shawn and Marlon Wayans throw as many jokes as they can into these 89 minutes, spoofing every inner-city coming-of-age film, not to mention other films, throwing in gag after gag, pun after pun, ridiculous physical comedy, irony...if there's a form of comedy, it's in this film. Not every gag hits, but if a baseball player had this batting average, he would be in the hall of fame before he retired.  Between the Hot Shots films, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, this, and many others. the 1990s are an incredible decade for spoofs, but Don't Be a Menace may stand above them all. 

Watch it...unless you are easily offended. And if you are easily offended and want to change that, give this film a watch!