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27 May 1998 (USA)
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A truckload of cell phones... turns into a boatload of cash!
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Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van...
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Dire `comedy' from a man on an ego trip
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Master P | ... | Black |
 | Anthony Johnson | ... | Blue (as A.J. Johnson) |
| Gretchen Palmer | ... | Sweet Lorraine |
 | Frantz Turner | ... | Dalton |
 | Richard Keats | ... | Jim Brady |
 | Joe Estevez | ... | Lamar Hunt |
| William Knight | ... | Agent In Charge |
| Anthony Boswell | ... | Little Brother |
| Mack Morris | ... | Andrew |
| Mia X | ... | Lola Mae |
 | Tommy 'Tiny' Lister | ... | T-Lay (as Tommy 'Tiny' Lister. Jr.) |
| Cory 'Zooman' Miller | ... | T-Lay Boy #1 (as Corey Miller) |
| Edward Smith | ... | T-Lay Boy #2 |
| Mystikal | ... | T-Lay Boy #3 (as Michael L. Taylor) |
| Pablo Marz | ... | Hispanic Man |
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Rated R for pervasive strong language, crude sexual humor, nudity, drug content and some violence.
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93 min
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Little Girl:
Look, my mama want her money back.
Blue: How am I gonna give you the money back? You done ate one of the pig's feet.
Little Girl: No we didn't.
Blue: I got a magic lamp. Tell your mama she gotta rub this every Wednesday at 3:42 standing on one leg with Al Green playing in the background, her money will pop out. And tell your daddy to buy you another shirt.
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Blue: How am I gonna give you the money back? You done ate one of the pig's feet.
Little Girl: No we didn't.
Blue: I got a magic lamp. Tell your mama she gotta rub this every Wednesday at 3:42 standing on one leg with Al Green playing in the background, her money will pop out. And tell your daddy to buy you another shirt.
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References Menace II Society (1993)
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I Don't Want to Go
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Black and Blue are two street hustlers who run a ghetto superstore. When they take delivery of a load of mobile phones they think they have it made and start selling them like hot cakes. However when their phones interfere with a radio broadcast, sending details of a money stash out over the air, the two men become the target of a local criminal. Meanwhile the mobile phone company are investigating the new numbers when Black's girlfriend Lorraine is unable to keep them all covered.
I watched `Barbershop' a few days ago and gave it a bad review, however now that I've seen this I feel I may have been harsh. This film is awful - yet more cheap crap banged out by No-Limit to try and add to Master P's bank book without any thought of quality control - how very like everything he does! The plot is, well, non-existent. It is merely a series of stupid jokes and scenes with little cohesion. The whole thing seems to be put together for two reasons, 1) to feed Master P's ego and 2) the mis-belief that black people want to see Ricki Lake characters.
An example of 1) is the way that the film goes into a playas club at one point, to allow our `heroes' to be surrounded by naked black girls - why? I have no idea but P seems to be having fun. The second thing is seen all through the film in that every character is a joke - a real annoying joke. Squealing and swearing non-stop every character is irritating and unlikeable and, true to form, any white person is a racist (who is brought low by a black man) or a snivelling nerd. Such lazy writing is just plain annoying and it doesn't work.
Worst of all is the fact that none of it is funny - none. I half smiled twice at the rapid mouth action of Blue but that was forced on my side. P is an awful actor - I saw him mugging in Dark Angel as well, but here he is worse. He seems to believe that he just needs to swagger and mumble to look cool and he is sadly mistaken. He just looks like a stereotype which I suppose he is - everything about his bling-bling lifestyle is just one big cliché that he brings nothing new to. Johnson is a little better because he makes fun of himself more than P does but even this is lazy swearing and mugging stuff. The rest of the cast is made up of `big-booty' type actresses who are sexy but no more than that and are just like you'd see on Jerry Springer - really lazy stuff guys.
Overall if you want a lazy, clichéd film that is full or stereotypes, swearing and cheap jokes but lacking a single laugh then this is the film for you. I think anyone who thinks they have seen a lame comedy should watch this film just to see how bad a bad comedy really is.