Ride Movie Review 1998

This sometimes-amusing but mostly rude road comedy seems to be merely an excuse for getting MTV veejays and rap stars together without actually showing any videos. Freddy B (Campbell) is a superstar looking for street cred, so his director Bleau (Brown) sends Leta (DeSousa) to Harlem to bring a group of young street talents to Miami for a video shoot. There are too many storylines in the busload of passengers to develop fully, so they are skimmed over and defused with a mixture of generic road movie brawls and narrow escapes combined with sexual and scatalogical humor. Yoba does a good job as Poppa, who's trying to watch over reckless little brother Geronimo (Starr) while keeping the rest of the crew in line.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS
Running time 83 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

African America, Buses, Road Trip, New York, New York, Harlem, Miami

Screenplay

Millicent Shelton

Cast

Malik Yoba, Melissa De Sousa, Fredro Starr, John Witherspoon, Cedric the Entertainer, Sticky Fingaz, Kellie Williams, Idalis de Leon, Julia Garrison, Guy Torry, Reuben Asher, Lady of Rage, Dartanyan Edmonds, Julie Brown

Cinematography

Frank Byers

Director

Millicent Shelton

Music

Dunn Pearson

Other

Snoop Dogg

Producer

Miramax Films