![]() The contrast results in a great deal of fun, especially when he has to be saved by his mama (or at least a hysterically obvious stuntman playing his mama.) The best part of Wayans' performance though is when he loses his cool, which never fails to be funny, and makes one wish he made more movies in this vein. Though there are some great performances throughout, with Casey being his usual cool cat, Hayes and Brown playing against their tough-guy personas and fun smaller parts for Damon Wayans, a pre- New Jack City Chris Rock and David Alan Grier (not to mention a fantastic cameo pairing of Mod Squad's Clarence Williams III and Eve Plumb of The Brady Bunch), the movie rides on Keenan Ivory Wayans' ability to play the least heroic hero possible, pretending to be the toughest. ![]() He turns to his childhood hero, John Slade (the great Bernie Casey), for help, leading to a gathering of some of the baddest blaxploitation archetypes, portrayed by Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Antonio Fargas ( Starsky & Hutch's Huggy Bear) and Steve James. Big ( Animal House's John Vernon), and he's sent his goons to collect from Jack's mama (Ja'net DuBois) and Junebug's wife Cheryl (Dawnn Lewis.) Seeing his neighborhood's now overrun with crime and his family threatened, he decides to do something about it and take on Mr. (over gold.) Unfortunately, Junebug's addiction to gold necklaces and other jewelry left him in debt to the local crime kingpin Mr. That's probably the film's greatest strength, as you don't have to know a thing about the genre to enjoy the story of Jack Spade (Wayans), a military man returning home following the death of his brother Junebug from O.G. Keenan Ivory Wayans offered the same quality laughs, but set in an entirely new world (at least to me, who at the time was not exactly attuned to blaxploitation films.) So when I saw I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, it was eye-opening, since this was not the same brand of comedy, yet still extremely funny. The sense that anything could happen and it was usually going to be hysterical made every one I watched a moment of pure joy. Growing up, my favorite adult (as in not kids) movies, outside of ‘80s college comedies like Revenge of the Nerds and Real Genius, were Mel Brooks' spoofs. The blaxploitation Expendables-only intentionally hilarious ![]()
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