The Reel Rejects - DON'T BE A MENACE TO SOUTH CENTRAL WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD (1996) MOVIE REVIEW!

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Starting point is 00:00:48 Don't be a menace in South Central. Oh, all drinking juice. Woo. Keenan Ivory Wayans as a male man. forgot his middle name was driving me crazy we did it we watched many a different tone movie in order to understand that one and it would not have been half as funny without that one like that was so necessary it's so weird to watch it because there's still tropes that the movies newer movies will still do yeah the last like movies that came way it's the way i feel when

Starting point is 00:01:21 i watched walk hard yeah and then i saw watching any biopic then i watch bohemian rhapsody I'm like, did you not see Walk Hard? James Mangold said he had a hard time making a complete unknown after Walk Hard because of how much it's an established trope now. Yeah. So I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, I mean, watching this, I'm like, wow, this movie really hit the nail on the head here. Even one of them days came out this year and it was all about her applying at a bank.

Starting point is 00:01:47 And I was like, oh my God, I didn't even realize that's been a trope for 30 years. Wow. Damn. And that was this year's like Kiskekee Palmer comedy. so yeah and prepper too thanks for yeah yeah yeah looks like a nightmare to edit before we dive in prepper uh this was an all rated comedy and it had a lot of visual jokes so this is maybe the one of the hardest types of things to edit for youtube thank you to the fine folks and prepper for making this possible if you're listening to this at home we have just watched don't be

Starting point is 00:02:13 a minute essential while drinking juice in the hood and uh we went on a journey of five films to get to this point um i my head hurts my face hurts so i'm very aware how funny that was to me, but I do, I do want to say, I think the first five minutes and the last five minutes were the hardest parts. Because I was like super in for like 90%, but it took a little bit for me to get in the world. And then at the end, I was like, uh, I think the first 20, I mean, there's some hilarious stuff in the last like 10 minutes. Yeah, there's a gap. But there's like the first 20 minutes. I was like, oh, is this not going to be as like enjoyable as I thought it would be. Man. But the, like all of Act 2, which is the main chunk of the movie. Like there's a

Starting point is 00:02:51 it's like this is an 84 minute film or something watch some prime video yeah 84 minute film and the uh there's like a solid 60 minutes in here that is sure gold like oh my god this is hilarious ass shit and yeah but you need that first 20 minutes to establish itself because that's that when i watch i rewatch scary movie a couple months ago and i had gotten so used to what spoof movies are like now where they don't really make them but there's a period where they got beaten to death with a couple of filmmakers but they got beat into death and i forgot like oh yeah scary movie actually feels like a movie like it feels like a real movie and sometimes the wayans brothers movies can be hit or miss where they just feel like a long sketch yeah and this is more of what i love for their style

Starting point is 00:03:38 from scary movie i'm like this feels like a movie still there's characters going on journeys and then there's crazy vignettes and then the journey keeps going yeah there's a structure yeah there's a story even though it's not like emotionally moving but there's a commentary as well because it's not just a parody of hey remember that movie look it's funny because we're making a joke about it

Starting point is 00:04:00 there's a commentary about the tropes there's a commentary on how black people are just portrayed in media in general commentary on the system in addition to so there's a commentary on the movie is making you feel a certain way about the way things are represented manipulation behind it and

Starting point is 00:04:16 yeah I think even though like like all out poetic justice was the only one i wasn't a huge fan of but the other four uh i really loved and to to so to see this where it was a bit of an adjustment for me to go like i'm so used to like being here and be taking a super freaking serious focusing on there were a few moments where i was like i feel guilty joking yeah exactly and i was like how do i navigate also i'm really aware of like certain racial stereotypes in our current culture of like i'm not kidding There was a moment when Omar Epps was on screen

Starting point is 00:04:51 And I was like, he's very small But that looks just like Omar Epps But I was so afraid of saying it People were like, oh, you think all black people look the same And I was like, okay good, it's Omar Epps But like stuff like that It was it was really hard in the beginning And then I was like this movie is is jabbing at that

Starting point is 00:05:04 Like this is a movie celebrating us like laughing with And at the absurdities of the culture commentary Well Then I stopped thinking overthinking it I overthought a lot of the drama This one I was like okay stop overthinking it And enjoy it Yeah sometimes I would overthink it a little bit too

Starting point is 00:05:18 because I didn't really have like when we watched the other movies I'm like okay I don't have the personal life experience of what it's like to be a black man and I can just say that it's easy and then there were times so so you have a different type of lens when you're watching it and with this I'm like in the beginning of like oh it's no it's okay to laugh right yeah I had to have a weird part of it's like you're fine it's fine it's fucking like let yourself laugh what's wrong with you I had to I had to have a moment where uh but eventually the the movie is just so funny on its own that you don't even get concerned about that thought because it just is like non-stop with the you could slow this is like a new rock stars breakdown

Starting point is 00:06:00 video because of the amount of things that are in the background reference set designs and the the countless jokes that sometimes drive your pants and the stuff we must have missed on first watch so many things we missed the of just production design that uh was hilarious i i it really dawned on me what Sean Wayans' is, like, unique strength is, is that I think he excels when he is being like, I don't know what the right word is for. You'll be able to find it. Not really super. Like, when he's being a little bit more goofy, like when he's doing, making front of the crying

Starting point is 00:06:37 when he's coming across a little bit of a week, the thumb sucking. And the, and the, the punches are so funny. I think that was my biggest laugh was, because I remember what Cuba did it. He was so good, but I was like, that's a lot. And then, like, to throw that under the bus was so funny. I think Sean Wayans has a very masculine appearance. So when he's silly. It's silly, it's silly kind of throw.

Starting point is 00:06:58 It's so freaking funny. Yeah. Sean, I think Marlon Wayans in general is the better, the stronger performer. And generally speaking, like, even here, Marlon Wayans, I believe him as a character. Yeah. I didn't just think he was, like, putting up and I was in a where, I would get, I was. quickly moving past the fact he's putting on a performance he's doing mannerisms and tics like he's doing an embodiment spoof but he's making a real character out of it

Starting point is 00:07:26 whereas like sean wands i kind of go in and out and i where i feel like he's like acting or he's making he's directly making fun of this thing yeah instead of just being the character but there are times when he's being the character when it's it is more of those things where he's being sillier yeah like like the crying like the punching um like after he sleeps with a woman you know like all those things oh yeah that's when he's sean wayans is like absolutely hysterical uh but yeah he's playing the straight man in so many scenes like when he's opposite marlin he has to be the straight man so it's it's it's when he's on his own that those moments get to come out yeah or opposite her like and i was really impressed with the amount like

Starting point is 00:08:02 the volume of spoof that it was able to cover there were scenes where it was like this is a menace of boys in the hood and straight out of compton i mean and ministers society this is a mix of poetic justice oh we got that juice line oh we're coming back to higher learning like this juggled so many things we just watched and there were a couple scenes that were so specific the specificity of humor is why I said I'm so glad we watched them because it would have still been funny but the specificity was so funny that when

Starting point is 00:08:25 there were scenes from stuff we didn't watch we noticed yeah like because it was like the the car DMV you know the guy that tests you while you drive that scene the church scene there were a few scenes that were definitely specific to a movie that we missed yeah

Starting point is 00:08:43 well beyond beyond that it's like sometimes I did question whether or not it was just making fun of just other ways, just the general portrayal beyond hood movies that they were specifically focusing on. It seemed like they had just a lot on their mind that they wanted to get out. And I feel like the commentary that they provided was, that's the thing.

Starting point is 00:09:01 As much as I talk about them as performers, I wouldn't want anyone. I wouldn't want them. Yeah, exactly. It's like you need the duo of the way it's brothers is a very large family, but there's something about the dynamic of these two brothers when they come together. Yeah. That they generate something like that is only in their voice and you do need

Starting point is 00:09:19 both of them on screen. And you know it's exactly their voice. Their tone is so specific, even echoing through the scary movies, I'm so excited they were getting a new one. Yeah, I think they, even though Keen and Everlands didn't direct this one, still with the way it was executed, they still managed to capture like the pacing

Starting point is 00:09:35 and tone while obviously being faster because of the fact that it's a speed of comedy. Yeah. But they still managed to capture like the overall mood. I had a slice of life behind it all. So I knew it would be funny. I had a feeling it would be funny.

Starting point is 00:09:52 I wasn't expecting to be impressed with anything. Yeah, like filmmaking quality was also good. And that's, I do think what we're missing from a lot of spoof stuff today is it being good and funny. Like a lot of times it's one or the other. Yeah, I think like visual comedy has kind of not really been as strong lately. A lot of it is mainly down to like writing and improv. Yeah. And I don't really get the sense.

Starting point is 00:10:14 era really changed the improv game. I feel like Apatelow really like, let's film it. We'll do 20 minutes. We'll edit it down to five and movie. Like, I feel like that's how comedy is done now. So the visuals don't work for that style. And comedy now generally has to be a really strong genre, splice of something else, usually to sell something. Like, I liked, uh, it was a joy ride, the one with all the, like, that was a really funny movie.

Starting point is 00:10:37 But I missed this kind of like absurdist visual comedy, like the specific editing when you just cut to a visual. And it's just funny off of like What you see right there It's a punchline visual You've worked up the joke And then the punchline being a visual And then it's a quick and you leave And there's so many cliches

Starting point is 00:10:54 Of the spoof comedy genre Even within the Wayans Brothers world of comedy Yeah That there were so many times Where we thought We know what the joke is about to be When he was baking I was like I thought it was breast milk

Starting point is 00:11:05 Like I had so many guesses And then it was that Like that was so good Or would the grandma put your hands up Like here comes The funny strong old lady He was about to hit And then he punches her

Starting point is 00:11:13 Not so funny yeah yeah i had a great time with this it is is absolutely up to expectation it's also i'm so glad worth like the legend of it sometimes when you watch a movie that's been like praise for so long it's not as good as you've heard or you're like it was of the time or you know it's a had to be there at that moment in pop culture but we watched the movies that we all i mean we both loved individually and then it was worth the journey yeah this is the kind of spoof comedies that i i absolutely adore because the waynes brothers they really feel like when When they have something to say, they have something to say.

Starting point is 00:11:46 Yeah. I know they do a lot of comedies that are like, little man and whatever, that are just like a big sketch. They were white chicks too, right? They did white chicks. They have white chicks too coming out as well. I haven't seen white chicks in theaters. Oh, yes. I covered that here on this channel.

Starting point is 00:11:58 So, yeah, when they have something like this, I really feel like there is something they have to say. Because there is a part of the conversation we were having on the journey is, like, have hood movies in some ways while being shining a light on a lot of terrible things and a lot of very important things. and some good things as well, has it also had some type of negative effect due to whatever stereotypes that's helped perpetuate or elevate in some way, you know? The kids said, like, I learned to shoot watching hood. Yeah, yeah. It's like, oh, the rhabers are taking the best. Oh, that was so funny.

Starting point is 00:12:27 There was some hilarious ass lines. Like, there was so many, yeah, this was really funny. I love, like, just this, the way some stuff was shot when Marlon Wayans jumps over. That was the one guy. Like, what the fuck comes out of nowhere? The belly laugh that that was was so good. Reject Nation, I currently am on a very specific macro plan, calories, fat, carbs, protein, you know the goods. And what's very fortunate for me, some of the brands that we have partnered with recently are products that I've already been using.

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Starting point is 00:14:43 Even in scary movie, I'm like hyper aware of what's what Marlon Wayans is doing in that movie. I'm not like just seeing the character. I know that's like not something I ever expect with any of these movies, but that's weirdly what makes them work that much more. When you watch Leslie Nielsen in any of those movies, you believe him as this character, not just a funny guy. Yeah. And I think what Marlon Wayne, like Marlon Wayne's performance, everyone in this movie is actually

Starting point is 00:15:09 really good. Everyone they cast is really good. Even like cliche old grandma stuff. I was surprised. The blind delivery we both pointed out. I wasn't expecting to talk about this movie in this way of like you see an evolution of how spoof movies have gone and you're watching

Starting point is 00:15:24 parts where you feel like I know this now and this manages to surprise you. And this was 30 years ago. Yeah, next year. 30. Wow. Wow. Really? 1996 dude. 30 years of this. This weirdly got me more excited like for me watching scary movie to seeing this um it got me more excited about what they

Starting point is 00:15:45 might be able to bring because yeah when it comes to scary movie six yeah uh but i hope they have a reason to come back like it feels like they might it was it was a there was just some true like bernie max came you i thought he was angry cop because he was small and i was like that guy looks familiar my brain didn't go oh my god it's bernie mac yeah that was so funny i want to see if there's uh any like the exquisite read we can see if there's anything worthy fun trivia saw that poster so many times growing up so did i let's see let's see okay lamar j to play's astray spotter is less than two years older than the wayans cubby going to join it's only seven years ago oh my god i had no they do not look that close in age cuba's only seven years younger than lauren's fishburn

Starting point is 00:16:31 in the trailer the tagline was it's the only movie released this year with 14 words in the title great tagline uh marlin wayans is one of ten children um low dog warrens ashtra much for miski as dan skis she got more kids than miss wayans marlin wayans one of ten children i even love like this stuff like the inside jokes that i even feel like the sex like so much sometimes the the comedy of like vulgarity and sexual jokes just feels a little bit cheap sometimes sure and with here i was going this works because of what those movies were doing they're not just let's uh we don't have anything we just make a sex joke. I don't have to make something

Starting point is 00:17:08 vulgar. I'm like, no, they're making fun of the sexuality that's in those movies. Yeah, I was so, I was surprisingly

Starting point is 00:17:14 really impressed of this. Lexi Biggum, the driving instructor, died in a car accident a month before the film no way. That's crazy.

Starting point is 00:17:24 Oh, wow. Loak dogs addresses 187 drive by and herds the six-time penetration. Oh, he never Wandsrolls as a parody is actually

Starting point is 00:17:32 because John Singleton made that played the mailman. I told us. Which someone in the comments told us. I totally forgot about that. 27 drafts the script before the shooting began. Marlon claimed that his brother Keenan Ivory made him and Sean Wayne's re-read it over the point of being driven tears.

Starting point is 00:17:45 That's what they did with scary movie as well. They rewrote it. That's what I mean. This feels like a crafted film. Yeah. Yeah. I was so surprised. This is really good.

Starting point is 00:17:54 This is a good shit. That was wicked fun. Even though like parts in the first 20 minutes didn't fully click, there was some that opening thing that makes fun of that opening text of those movies. Yeah. Oh yeah. the Asian shopkeeper also played the shopkeeper who was the same guy

Starting point is 00:18:10 it was that was my moment of like I'm thinking I'm not going to say could be wrong could be wrong uncredited his guy in the backseat was also in boys in the hood is the guy who shot Ricky to death so that guy in the backseat of the car man that's crazy that's what I mean like this

Starting point is 00:18:24 the the Michael Rappaport moment like it was it was kind of cool to be rewarded but yeah I felt like a Marvel movie I was like oh I got that reference I'm glad we did all the movies yes it allowed us to truly enjoy it That was great. And I can't imagine how funny this would have been in theaters around the time of all those movies being as popular.

Starting point is 00:18:40 Yeah. That must have been amazing. Um, yeah, I love that, uh, like four, four and a half stars for me. I laughed a lot. My head actually hurts, uh, from laughing. My cheeks hurt. My, I have a headache from laugh. That was, I know there's so many means of the 40s.

Starting point is 00:18:53 Oh my God. I, I grew up drinking 40s and I love it like was video one or two. You're like, what is that? It was video one. Because I'm like, that's the surprising part to me. It's so important because I went to, I watched it and you had to tell me what 40s were like the supporting role such a big joke in the movie yeah oh my god I'm so glad I asked so st. I'd is the most popular I think old English and steel reserve are the best and they reference

Starting point is 00:19:17 like all of them in their own way dude if you drank we'd get 40s we should got what's the name of the drink in the same but they say uh saint dies they got they got to sell the cereal's the cereal's real the witties they put t hc and cereal and weedies is real now saint dies yeah saint dies because it's st. S.T. dies instead of St. Iides. because i does i d es they just move the letters around and make it saint dies i feel i wish they there it is yeah it saint dies are you able to buy it oh that's so good it's a poster they should make a bottle i would totally put it on the background here so good it feels like such a rewarding experience what a good poster like wow there's there's so many easter i was honestly man i i

Starting point is 00:19:59 was very impressed with that movie i was so surprised by how impressed i was with that yeah good luck next comedy i watch holy shit that was hilarious man all right thank you guys for being on the journey with us that it's so worthwhile everyone in the comments let us know if you watched all of them with us beforehand like if you watched the journey of drama to get to this point let us know if you were just timing in for this because you love this movie let us know and again i'd love to know your favorite reaction from this because this was like a really communal version of this and we always talk about reject nation being part of it we mean it like i love to know what you guys thought especially on this particular like little bottle journey

Starting point is 00:20:34 I feel like we had an experience with people. I feel like it was an actual experience. Yeah, that was cool. I feel like people that are just now discovering the MCU that get to go on that journey. It felt like that for me. Yeah. Because I don't get that because I'm always watching in real time. And I know there's people who probably watch this who didn't see those other ones.

Starting point is 00:20:49 Yeah. So go back and watch this crazy journey. We went on. Very different tone. Yeah. But yeah, check them out. They're all together. I'm not like in a playlist, but they're all on this page.

Starting point is 00:20:57 Check out, you know, we did poetic justice and juice and minister society, boys in the hood. And most recently, higher learning. and let us know what you thought. Let us know what you thought of this from the comments below. Thank you to Prepper for doing the impossible and getting this very R-rated comedy onto YouTube. Thank you to everyone over at Patreon for watching it with us, unedited for every moment.

Starting point is 00:21:15 And thank you to you for staying at the end of this video. Leave it like. Bye guys. Chris Whamoff, man, man, if there was anyone I would want to race against. Assuming this is going on Days of Thunder. Yes, it should. It should. Let's hope it doesn't get postponed.

Starting point is 00:21:33 otherwise. This is a weird shout out of context. It makes no sense now. But Chris, if there's anyone I'd want to race with, it'd be you. You know, why? Because you'd let me win. Yeah. Even if you were better than me, I know you'd let me win. And that is what Chris Wammoth's motto is all about. Yeah. Letting others go ahead. I didn't even bet on you to win. And then, oh, you scam artists. Yeah, look at that. Oh, my God. You give you all the earnings. Oh, you great guy, you generous guy, con artist guy. But then he made a bet that all the money that he would earn would be given away. Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:22:15 So you can't keep it? I keep it. No, he would give it away. That's right. He gives it away. So I might get $100,000, but he gets $102,000. $100,000. And I am not cool with that.

Starting point is 00:22:29 Wow. That is a blow, man. Yeah. I think we should split that $100,000. I bet that you were going to give. that money away. Exactly. And you're not going to give that money away?

Starting point is 00:22:37 Well, he bet that he would give the money away. Oh. And he did. But because he bet that, he won $102,000 after giving me the $100,000. No, I'm saying he should have bet that he would also give that money away. This is what he wanted. This is what he wanted. He wanted to tear us apart.

Starting point is 00:22:51 He wanted to confuse us with his financial gains. You sick bastard. That's what he does. Who do you even place these bets with? He throws money at you and he makes you feel special. Yeah. And that he'll take care of you for. forever, they'll take you to dinner, and that you don't have to do any sexual favors in return?

Starting point is 00:23:08 No. That's not what happened last night. Not to Chris Wampoff. I tried and he rejected me. Oh, Chris, it's so, that's not what you're supposed to do. You're supposed to sweep a pretty woman, this man. Yeah, I said kiss me, too. I said, screw that dumb movie and no one likes and pretending to for decades.

Starting point is 00:23:27 Yes, everyone hates Julia Roberts, America's shut up, heart. really chris is a very generous guy thank you chris you've been really kind to us over so much time so thanks chris for being you man you're a beautiful son of a bitch and don't you ever let anyone tell you otherwise and i hope you and your fiance are banging it out days of thunder in terms of like banging out like financial details or the uh getting your things in order stuff like that i would never want to talk about your building a saving we're done now thanks man

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