"Highway to Hip Hop Hell"
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What You Need To Know:
This movie features ambitious, lecherous men and easy women. Stealing goes unpunished, and some foul jokes are made about sexuality and cross-dressing. With little plot and much immorality, this movie assumes that African-Americans like hip hop, talk dirty and are easy sexual targets. RIDE is about fulfilling ambitions in a worldly way. One woman sleeps with the producer to get ahead, one man steals money to get ahead, two bus drivers don’t take care of their bus, and LITA beds a man she has only met for a few days. Get off this bus!
Content:
(PaPa, C, LLL, VV, SS, NN, A, D, M) Pagan worldview of seeking success with a recognition of Jesus Christ; 101 obscenities & 8 profanities; moderate violence including stealing, threats with gun, shooting, fist fighting, women fighting, & car crashes; implied fornication & many sexual situations; no nudity but women in skimpy costumes; alcohol use; smoking; and, lying, scatological humor, racial jokes, & cheating.
More Detail:
You can take people out of the hood, but you can’t take the hood out of people. A very disrespectful film to African Americans, RIDE is a story about a group of fame-seeking young people who travel from Harlem to Miami. On the way, they encounter unlikely friendships and love. Some realize their dreams. Though breezy and light, this movie features many obscenities and sexual situations. It confirms that much of black filmmaking remains in the hands of a very narrow and limited group of filmmakers who appeal to the raunchy instincts of a narrow segment of their diverse African American audience, most of whom would be offended by the depicted sex and immorality.
Melissa DeSousa plays a young NYU film school graduate, named Lita, who is seeking an upwardly mobile job in a production company. She joins a record company which also produces music videos. Her job is to coordinate a bus trip containing a tour group of artists traveling from Harlem to Miami where director Bleu Kelly (Julie Brown) will shoot a video. Trouble begins immediately when a young man steels a large sum of money from a group of thugs who just held up a convenience store. The rapper and the others board a very rickety bus and head south. On the way, the original crooks give chase, a young woman discovers she is pregnant, and relationships begin to form. When a potential accident is thwarted, Lita says, “Thank you Jesus.” In Miami, members have sex with each other and enjoy the sun. After Bleu Kelly walks off the set, Lita gets her chance.
RIDE features ambitious, yet lecherous men and morally loose women. Even the heroes are fornicators, but they just don’t come on strong, hot and heavy. Stealing goes unpunished, and some very foul jokes are made about sexuality and cross-dressing. With little plot and a great deal of immorality, this movie assumes that if you are from the inner city, you will like hip hop, talk dirty and be an easy sexual predator or target. RIDE is a very shallow African-American sex comedy. It can’t even be considered equal to Spike Lee’s GET ON THE BUS because it doesn’t seem to have any worthy aspirations about relationships.
RIDE is more about worldly ways of fulfilling life’s ambitions. One woman sleeps with the producer to get ahead, one man steals money to get ahead, two bus drivers don’t even take care of their bus, and Lita eventually beds a man she has only met for a few days. Get off this bus!
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