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Unfortunately during Hip Hops aegis from 1989 to 1992, there were some horrid movies, shows and rappers that became famous off shamelessly exploiting this amazing undergrould genre. These include Hammer Man, Young MC, Sir Mix a lot and Streetfrogs to name a few, and do not even mention Vanilla Ice. Ironically I like Eminem. I am please to say the first two House Parties are not one of them. The best part about this movie is its blackness, the people are so down home its funny. Kid and Play are all right, but Martin Lawerence is superb as Bilal, loud, abrasive and full of expletives suggesting maternal incest. Also great are Full Force playing the goons, the ad lib rap in Plays record shop is not to be missed. Its a shame they become friends at the end. These goons become the Keystone cops of Blackness, and of course those racist cops. This movie is so 91 it hurts. We have all the record companies named after BBD songs, fruity shirts and flat tops everywhere. This is a time too where fluro was in and there was no commercial gangsta rap. This movie if nothing else is splittingly funny, even the fat dude having sex and then chasing everyone with a gun going "Goddamn peep show mf's". This movie is slammin and is what rap is all about. Its a shame that they had to ruin it in 1994 with Immature (Where are they now?) and half ass acting.

Originally I saw most of these movies at the cinema when I was a child up to Number 4 and thought they were all not bad, considering I was too young to go and see Freddies latest antics. So last year I got all of them out at my store which has a multiple movie discount. I can say 1-4 were great and nic etrips down memory lane. 5 was not bad and this one was shocking, for 1989 it still seems dated like the early 80's and half the best characters are gone. Even the departure of House is noticable, and its only Jones that stops this movie from being a total bomb. It does have its funny moment such as the exploding money and the brick in the canister. Overall it is much better than the 7th movie which was an absolute joke, which I had the misfortune to see on cable.

Despite the fact it has an average Mark of 3 out of 10, I feel this movie was the best of the lot for a number of reasons. I think its been dragged down because of the fact it is from 1987 and seems dated like anything else from the 80's that was not mega budget like ET, and also it had the misfortune to produce a number 7 seven years later. It is significant as it is the last to feature Gutenberg and Goldthwait who went off to make those horrid movies, the one with the horse afterwards. It is also very funny, Captain Harris has prank after prank played on him by Mahoney who he bumps into the first time since the first one (The one that most people actually liked). When the microphone gets glued to his face is too funny to be true. And then theres the Madullah/Freddie Kruger scene with hightower going yama yama because hes hungry!!! There are even a few gimmicks between Sweetchucks and Bobcat that will make you laugh at the end and the balloon scenes are classic filmed in the scenic backdrop of an Ontario October afternoon. Hightower and Hooks also provide some laughs especially where helium is placed in the canister so Harris sounds squeakier than here after abusing her for her voice. All in all the best comedy of the 80's after Ruthless People. 8 out of 10, hint hint people.