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Ice Cube stars as
soon-to-be-married Russell Redds,
a broke, wannabe promoter and
partner in crime Jellyroll (Mike
Epps) who bankrolls his life via
women and seedy dealings with
the criminally active. Both
attempt to finance and pull-off
an unadvertised rap event at the
local theater.
Russell finds
himself in hot water when he
doesn't have the funds to pull
the event off. On the day of
rapper Young Jeezy's arrival,
Russell and Jellyroll come up
with every excuse as to why the
event is going off with a
hitch... or two. Between the
club owners final payment due
complaints, Jeezy's low budget
host hotel and a false attempted
rape charge, its no wonder
Russell can barely find it in
himself not to steal his
honeymoon money.
Obviously the
films budget went to the pockets
of Ice Cube and Mike Epps as the
rest of the move left nothing to
be desired. The poor comedy and
pathetic attempt to make fun at
stereo types in the black
community was just plain awful
and really could have found a
better place to exist... like
the cutting room floor.
What was even
worse was the way the women were
portrayed as money hungry,
I'm gonna have your baby and
get paid losers. As not only a
writer but an African American
who has the chance to get films
the greenlight, Ice Cube should
have gone the other direction
instead of selling out to
Hollywood's depiction of people
of color.
Even better, Ice
Cube like director John
Singleton could have funded the
film himself leaving a better
taste in the mouths of the
viewing audience majority
African American who by the
months delayed and limited
theatrical release going
straight to DVD did nothing to
support the project. A target
market clearly poorly judged by
the nuances of Hollywood.
DVD Release Date:
November 24, 2009
Run Time: 85
Minutes
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