Film

Big Money Hustlas

Name: Big Money Hustlas
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Released: 2000
Cast: Violent J, Shaggy 2 Dope, Harland Williams, Jamie Madrox, Monoxide Child

Crime
Comedy
Light-hearted

A Insane Clown Posse comedy-crime film where two detectives travel to New York to bust a crime ring run by absurdist villains. It's deliberately silly, aggressively lowbrow, and committed to its own stupidity in a way that either delights you or repels you within minutes. For people who think mainstream comedy has become too safe and polite.

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you enjoy scrappy, deliberately ridiculous spoofs of buddy-cop pictures, where the gags come fast and the earnestness is pure cardboard, and you don't mind a movie that wears its amateur edges proudly.

Skip it if you need polished production and sharp writing, because the jokes here hit and miss and the low budget shows in many scenes.

What it asks of you: Ninety-seven minutes of loose, broad, cheerfully crude material with little slow build; it wants you to laugh along at its rough edges rather than settle in for atmosphere.

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ThanksKilling2008

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