Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Finally, the movie that proves that Justice isn’t always Poetic, Jungle Fever isn’t always pretty, and Higher Learning can be a waste of time. Screenwriter-stars Shawn & Marlon Wayans take inspiration from the decade’s influx of Black coming-of-age films, skewering the genre’s tropes & conventions with a non-stop barrage of side-splitting gags and groan-inducing guffaws, satirically spoofing everything from Boyz n the Hood & Menace II Society to Friday, Dead Presidents, and beyond.