The title is so absurdly long that I’ll simply refer to this movie as “Don’t Be A Menace”. The Wayans brothers (“White Chicks”, “Scary Movie”) star in this parody of films such as “Boyz N The Hood” and “Menace II Society”. The problem is that the script is terrible with most of the gags falling flat. We also already had “Friday”, another comedy film that deals with the same subject matter.

In “Don’t Be A Menace”, Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves into the ‘Hood’ in Los Angeles to live with his father. He must deal with the obstacles facing young black men in the area. He has an assortment of crazy friends and finds himself falling for Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones).

Shawn Wayans is fairly bland here as Ashtray. Marlon Wayans appears as Loc Dog. He has a truly ridiculous hairstyle and he’s always got weird things attached to it such as dice and dummies. He might look somewhat amusing but his performance is so obnoxious that it’s pretty hard to tolerate at times. Keenen Ivory Wayans makes several brief appearances as a postman. The only characters that I really liked were the crazy Korean shopkeepers. None of the other characters are particularly funny.

“Don’t Be A Menace” has a couple of funny scenes but a lot of it is just really disappointing. Some of the jokes are just disgusting. There is one guy that just goes around offering sexual favours to strangers and there is also one woman that has some serious hygiene issues. The movie is certainly silly but it doesn’t really do a very good job of making fun of its source material and it relies way too heavily on gross humour. Fans of the Wayans brothers seem to like this one but it’s not for me.