I Got the Hook Up

I used to be very much into this "type" of film when i was younger. Friday was and is one of my all time favourites and at the time i watched this i used to watch it regularly. "I got the hook up" has lots of the same cast, very nearly playing the same roles, but it is so bad. I rented this full of hope when in my teens and even then i thought it was absolute rubbish. Still to this day one of the worse films i have seen. Sometimes really bad films are so bad that they become enjoyable. This does not manage to do that. It just makes you want it to end. I can usually find something good to say about a film but all i can think of for this is that it isn't very long. The dialogue is very bad, the acting is bad, the idea is bad. The soundtrack was bad. Sorry to be so negative. Please don't watch this film.

A pointless plot and bad acting characterize this film that needs to be thrown in the garbage. Master P isn't master of anything except stupidity in this movie. This movies features some of my favorite comics but they come off looking aimless in this film. Word to the would-be watchers of this movie: Ghetto fabulous + hip-hop non-culture + bad acting + pointless plot = A film that ain't.

I would love to see a "G" rated version of this movie. It never let's up in its use of the "F" word. In fact in the opening words of the movie, it used the "F" word. I think if they made a "G" version of this movie - there would be NO dialogue -- the movie would be one long "MF" BLEEP! This isn't even a good "bro" movie. Bad acting, bad dialouge. It did have a semblance of a plot though. Let me put it this way - if I had to choose between this movie and "Pippi Longstocking" -- it would be a toss up... Wayno

Strangely enough I don't feel it's a great stretch to call this movie not worth the film it was put on. This film could have been used for an Oscar winner, a thoughtfully done picture, or even a Bruce Willis action movie. But instead it was used to record Master P's desire to employ all the awful rappers of New Orleans while keeping his unexplainable popularity as the poor man's Puff Daddy through the roof. I can't even begin to tell you the problems I had with I Got The Hook Up other than to say I don't count it as an actual movie. Movies have actors, plots, scripts. This awful production had none of these. I've seen some bad movies in my time, but by and large many of them were at least fun to laugh at. This wasn't; in fact this made me genuinely angry. I wasted an hour and a half of my life on this monstrosity that I will never get back. If I ever meet Master P, he'd better watch out.

Somebody please stop letting some of these rappers write scripts then get a hold of film stock! Nothing but a collection of images that play up negative stereotypes about rappers and African-Americans in general. I feel sorry for those of you who sat through this crap in a theater. If you haven't rented it, DON'T. If it comes on cable, change the channel to a bad network movie of the week. That will have more substance than Master P's sorry efforts.

At first, the movie starts off pretty funny, with Mia X running a credit office out of a burned out car. But what really makes it go down hill is it's drift off the original topic. Yes, there is a plot, and they drift off subject with it. The movie is pretty funny, and I do think it deserves a spot in the Cult Classic section. But if you want to get confused, and try to figure out a point, this is the movie for you.

This is the worst film I have ever SEEN!!! It was SO bad, that every film I've seen since, I have simply loved, thus this film has ruined me from EVER giving another objective review of any film! In the user voting section I have noticed that 40 users gave this film a 10! a TEN! I didn't know Master P's had bought PC's and Internet access for his family! My GOD!!! I'm comin' to you 'Lizabeth! I have nothing else to say.

This is one awful, awful comedy and a waste of a fine cast. Just one failed attempt at humor after another, with such crude and flat gags. The film leads nowhere, thinking it can be fueled strictly on laughs. But there's a problem: the laughs don't exist. There was one funny joke and it was given away in the previews. A.J. Johnson says: "Here are the twins, Ug and Lee." Just so I don't sound like a complete sour grape, there is one great scene involving a boatload of topless babes. If you happen to catch this movie on cable, that scene is worth waiting for. But don't waste any money to rent this movie.