Big Money Hustlas (2000) (V)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

John Cafiero

Writer:

Violent J (writer)

Release Date:

18 July 2000 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Crime

Tagline:

A tough-city cop may be in over his stupid-ass head!

Plot:

It's New York City, and the crime lord Big Baby Sweets has got NYC around his finger. The NYPD is helpless so the Chief sends out for Sugar Bear...

Plot Keywords:

Ninja | Dolemite | Mob Violence | Breaking The Fourth Wall | Movie Spoof

Cast

Violent J	...	Big Baby Sweets / Ape Boy
Shaggy 2 Dope	...	Sugar Bear
Harland Williams	...	Officer Harry Cox
John G. Brennan	...	The Chief
Rudy Ray Moore	...	Dolemite
Jamie Madrox	...	Big Stank
Monoxide Child	...	Lil' Poot
Kayla Kleevage	...	Phat Tittie Kittie (as Kimberlee Chiapeti)
Sindee Williams	...	Missy
Bob Greenberg	...	Magic Ninja 1
Lee Willet	...	Magic Ninja 2
Stefan Kudek	...	Dr. Dinglenut
Mick Foley	...	Cactus Sac
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alex Abbiss	...	Hazad
Kamal Ahmed	...	Kissel
Fred Berry	...	Bootleg Greg
Billy Bill	...	Himself
John Cafiero	...	The Director
Dr. Chud	...	Himself (as The Misfits)
Mike E. Clark	...	Himself
Jeanmarie Evans	...	Little Old Lady
Michale Graves	...	Himself (as The Misfits)
B.B. Gunns	...	Stripper (as Miss B.B. Guns)
John Hartmann	...	Suburban Dad (as John Richard Hartmann)
Myzery	...	Green Willie
Jerry Only	...	Himself (as The Misfits)
Keith Perry	...	Father Duckett
Jump Steady	...	Hack Benjamin / Preacherman
Florence Sturgeon	...	Suburban Mom
Floyd Vivino	...	Uncle Floyd
Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein	...	Himself (as The Misfits)
XXXena	...	Stripper

Also Known As:

Big Money Hu$la$ (USA) (alternative spelling)
Big Money Hustla$ (USA) (video box title)
Big Money Hustler$ (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Germany:16 (self applied)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Non-Homogenized Productions Ltd.

Trivia:

The number that flashes on the screen when Hazad is presenting his product is actually the ICP fan club phone number.

Quotes:

Big Baby Sweets: Let's holla at Rerun...
Bootleg Greg: Hey! Hey! Hey!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Rocky (1976)

Soundtrack:

Intro

A movie made by ICP? The results may surprise you.

Over-rated white hip hop outfit with cult following makes low budget film. Doesn't exactly sounds like a great achievement in modern cinema, does it? While it clearly fails at anything resembling conventional success, this movie does achieve a bizarre sort of diamond-in-the-rough eminence that you don't necessarily have to be a Faygo-loving Detroit native to appreciate. As someone who holds great disdain for the campy music and image of Insane Clown Posse, I obviously saw this movie with exceedingly low expectations. In the end, I came away seeing a movie with surprising cinematography, a plot that rises above the sheer inanity you're expecting, and far more than its fair share of both cheap and earned laughs.

The plot basically amounts to ruthless drug lord versus smooth renegade cop, an obvious parody of the blaxploitation cliché. The execution is certainly quite a bit more ambitious than what you'd expect from a movie made by musicians, especially considering the band's only two members don't appear on screen together until the last quarter of the movie. Since both the villain and the protagonist both wear face paint during all scenes of the picture, you can expect a great deal of heavy-handed silliness. However, when the plot turns serious, you care about the characters without things becoming corny or over done. There are still obvious complaints, arising primarily from poor acting, which isn't surprising. On the other hand, the underlying quality of this film is surprising, and makes it worth a view when you're in the mood for a cult film that is strangely entertaining.