Title: Lil' Pimp (2005)Starring: Bernie Mac, Ludacris, William Shatner
Directed By: Mark Brooks & Peter Gilstrap
Originally scheduled by Sony for a theatrical release in 2003, this movie kept getting pushed back further and further until it was released straight to DVD in 2005. It's understood that the reason it kept getting the shaft was that it had one horrendous test screening after another. The people who had the "pleasure" of seeing this ahead of time and for free, were right to walk out angry.
You see, there actually is a good, funny movie here somewhere. Something along the line of Bebe's Kids. It's written, directed by, and starring two of the guys responsible for The Slim Shady Show, the animated Eminem web series. The problem with this movie, similar to Slim Shady, is that for every good joke (and there are a couple), you've got to put up with about 20 useless minutes filled with really BAD dialogue and sub-par delivery.
You can tell this was meant to be a big theatrical release too. The animation style is defined and done well, and the cast is pretty impressive. It includes Bernie Mac, William Shatner, Ludacris, Lil' Kim, John C. McGinley, Rudy Ray Moore (aka Dolemite!), Jennifer Tilly, David Spade, Danny Bonaduce and more. It's a shame that most of them are wasted on ridiculously awful "off-color" humor, each joke trying to be more raunchy than the one before. Ludacris, playing a talking hedgehog named Weathers, has the most successful jokes. It's a shame that that's all his character is, a delivery system for over excited, fowl-mouthed one-liners.
I'd say, if you can set your expectations a little low and have a soft spot in your heart for raunchy cartoons with plenty of immature adult humor, you could probably do worse than Lil' Pimp. Probably.
Score: 4.5/10
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