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  • 1988
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1988
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 28 m

Summary When Junebug Spade is found dead, having OG'd (Over-Gold) on funky gold chains (how did he go to the bathroom with all that on?) his soldier brother, Jack, vows to avenge him and hits the mean streets of his old neighborhood, looking for the nefarious Mr. Big, who's two-bit henchmen push gold chains on the street. The way Jack sees it, ...

Directed By: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Written By: Keenen Ivory Wayans

  • 1988
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 28 m
  • 1988
  • R
  • United Artists
  • 1 h 28 m

I'm Gonna Git You Sucka

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
48
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
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Summary When Junebug Spade is found dead, having OG'd (Over-Gold) on funky gold chains (how did he go to the bathroom with all that on?) his soldier brother, Jack, vows to avenge him and hits the mean streets of his old neighborhood, looking for the nefarious Mr. Big, who's two-bit henchmen push gold chains on the street. The way Jack sees it, ...

Directed By: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Written By: Keenen Ivory Wayans

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
48
31% Positive
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31% Mixed
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38% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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31% Positive
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38% Negative
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80
Unrelenting, unremitting, a brilliant broad-brush of a parody.
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75
A satire is only as good as its subject, and in the very funny I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, Keenen Ivory Wayans has found a rich and relatively untapped one. The wit and openness of I'm Gonna Git You Sucka has more to contribute to race relations than the smug piety of "Mississippi Burning." As a positive image, a good, shared laugh is hard to beat. [14 Dec 1988, p.1]
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
60
Some of the comedy bits have a delightful freshness and edge while much of the glue (the romance, for example) holding the routines together remains a little sticky. [31 Jan 1989, p.1]
By Julie Salamon FULL REVIEW
60
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a lively but uncertain mixture of nostalgia, silliness and genuinely unpredictable humor.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
25
The problem with Sucka is that the film is more clumsy and lifeless as a comedy than most of those blaxploitation pictures were as drama. Sucka instead is so awkward as to take two steps back for every one step forward: the film uses black women, for example, as rudely as did the movies it sends up. [17 Feb 1989, p.C3]
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I'm Gonna Git You Sucka is a comedy that feeds off the blaxploitation movies, and although, like all good satires, it is cheerfully willing to be offensive, it is almost completely incapable of being funny.
By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW
10
Wayans' choosing to play romantic lead seems more narcissistic than smartly comic (watch him unleash those built biceps once too often); he lacks an unidentifiable shtick. And he seems too easily satisfied with predictable and sophomoric punchlines. Lapses like that give Sucka the Shaft.
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.1
59% Positive
10 Ratings
24% Mixed
4 Ratings
18% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 17 User Ratings
7.1
59% Positive
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24% Mixed
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18% Negative
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Production Company Front Films, Ivory Way Productions, Raymond Katz Production
Release Date Dec 14, 1988
Duration 1 h 28 m
Rating R
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Tagline Even if you can't say it, you gotta see it!
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