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starring: Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Robert Colbert, Marilyn Coleman, Ja'net DuBois
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792839941
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792839943
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: January 09, 2001
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 5771
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 14, 1988
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Description:
A hilarious Soul Cinema send-up, this ultra-slick, urban action comedy blows 70's blaxploitation movies right out of the 'hood! Featuring the very funny Wayans family (Keenen, Damon and Kim), Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Isaac Hayes, Jim Brown, Ja'net DuBois, David Alan Grier, Kadeem Hardison and Chris Rock, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a perfect 'mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor' (The New York Times). Jack Spade, a goody-goody war hero with medals for short-hand, returns to the ghetto to discover that his brother, Junebug, has OG'd (Over-Golded on jewelry). Jack swears revenge against the local gang boss, Mr. Big, and sets off to enlist an army of Shaft, Superfly and Black Caesarlook-a-likes, that is. They don't come easy, cheap or youngbut they do have nice clothes and enough firepower left in them to practically destroy Mr. Big's Big Brim Bar where the bad guys wearyou guessed itbig hats!
Amazon.com:
From Keenan Ivory Wayans, the man who brought us Jim Carrey (initially just one of the bunch on Wayans's television comedy-sketch show, In Living Color), comes I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), a comedy spoof on the blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Wayans plays Jack Spade, an army private just returning from the service. He comes home to find his younger brother June Bug dead of a overdose of gold chains (an 'O.G.') He vows revenge, and with the help of some of the neighborhood's old school heroes including Flyguy (Antonio Fargas), Kung Fu Joe (Steve James), Hammer (Isaac Hayes), Slammer (football star Jim Brown), and John Slade (Bernie Casey), Spade wages a war against Mr. Big, the neighborhood crime lord.
In the tradition of Airplane! and Naked Gun, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka pokes fun through satire and offensive comedy. The film also features some of the players that would end up on In Living Color and has appearances from such varied actors as Clarence Williams III, Eve Plumb (better known to most as Jan Brady), and Chris Rock as a rib-joint customer. --Shannon Gee
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Let's get that sucka!
Back when spoof movies were actually funny, there was this clever spoof of blaxploitation movies called Im Gonna Git You Sucka. At the time the Wayans brothers were starting to emerge on the scene and this movie was their best work(Dont Be A Menace comes in second). The whole movie was Jack(played by Keenan Ivory Wayans)returns home from the service to find out that his brother passed on. He finds out that his brother worked for Mr. Big and sets out to deal with him and his cronies with the help ... Read More
Rating:  - Just an old classic
I purchased this DVD because my friends and I used to watch this tons of times when we were younger. So it is kind of an old classic for us. I wanted it in DVD format. It is a movie we still quote and laugh about even now that we are older.
Rating: - Looove This Movie!!
I love this movie. It reminds me of how cool I wasn't after watching the movies this movie is making fun of!! I had to have it on DVD.
Rating: - This is Parody at its peak
In 1988, two films reinvented the parody that Blazing Saddles and Airplane perfected. The Naked Gun was an inspired lunatic of a movie based on an insanely hysterical TV show. Then there was this filmed account that took several of the stars to those great '70's blaxploitation films and allowed them to poke fun of themselves. Sucka begins by taking us to Anytown, USA and showing right away what happens when one wears too many gold chains. This unfortunate soul was the brother of returning 'soldier ... Read More
Rating: - YOU SHOULD GET THIS SUCKA
I bought this as a give for my boyfriend who is a big movie buff. It's classic, he loved it. I think this is one of Chris Rock's first movie appearances, "can I get 1...1 rib." Lol
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