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Jungle Fever poster
To understand most of its references, you should know, for example, John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood" and "Poetic Justice," the Hughes brothers' "Menace II Society," Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" and at least one music video by Dr. Dre or Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Esther Iverem • The Washington Post • Jan 15, 1996
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Poetic Justice poster
To understand most of its references, you should know, for example, John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood" and "Poetic Justice," the Hughes brothers' "Menace II Society," Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" and at least one music video by Dr. Dre or Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Esther Iverem • The Washington Post • Jan 15, 1996
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Do the Right Thing poster
To understand most of its references, you should know, for example, John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood" and "Poetic Justice," the Hughes brothers' "Menace II Society," Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" and at least one music video by Dr. Dre or Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Esther Iverem • The Washington Post • Jan 15, 1996
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Boyz n the Hood poster
To understand most of its references, you should know, for example, John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood" and "Poetic Justice," the Hughes brothers' "Menace II Society," Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" and at least one music video by Dr. Dre or Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Esther Iverem • The Washington Post • Jan 15, 1996
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka poster
Sometimes the family succeeds, like in Keenen Ivory Wayans's 1988 spoof of '70s films "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka."
Esther Iverem • The Washington Post • Jan 15, 1996
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Menace II Society poster
Like most of their earlier work on TV ("In Living Color") and later work for the screen ("Scary Movie," "White Chicks"), "Don't Be a Menace" is a spoof, and a fairly unsubtle one, of films like "Menace II Society," "South Central," "Juice," and "Boyz n in the Hood."
To understand most of its references, you should know, for example, John Singleton's "Boyz N the Hood" and "Poetic Justice," the Hughes brothers' "Menace II Society," Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever" and at least one music video by Dr. Dre or Snoop Doggy Dogg.
Esther Iverem • The Washington Post • Jan 15, 1996
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A Low Down Dirty Shame poster
"Don't Be A Menace..." reunites the team of Keenen Ivory Wayans and Eric L. Gold, who produced "A Low Down Dirty Shame."
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Fifty Shades of Black poster
Marlon Wayans’ track record in this genre is spotty at best—though some of the early Scary Movies are solid, and Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood is sheer gold, the likes of Dance Flick and A Haunted House are better left unmentioned.
Brent McKnight • CinemaBlend • Jan 29, 2016
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It’s one thing to skewer an entire genre, as the Wayans did in Scary Movie or Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood , but quite another to pick a single source to parody, and a very thin gruel of a source at that.
A Haunted House poster
In his career, Marlon Wayans has found success spoofing socially conscious black dramas (1996's "Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood"), "Scream"-style horror films (2000's " Scary Movie "), haunted house pics (2001's " Scary Movie 2 "), and dance flicks (2009's, uh, " Dance Flick ").

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