Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood parents guide

Moderate sex and nudity, and strong violence, about what an R should carry.

Scare

Not scary

Jump scares

None noted

Gore

Light gore

Some blood or injury, briefly.

Violence

Strong violence

Violence is frequent or intense.

Sex and nudity

Moderate

Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.

Language

Strong

Frequent strong profanity or slurs.

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Three questions

How gory is Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood?

Light gore and strong violence.

What is Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood rated, and is it OK for kids?

No. It is rated R, with moderate sex and nudity, strong violence, and frequent strong language.

What is Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood about?

When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?

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