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Set in New York, the movie stars Violent J (real name Joe Bruce) as Big Baby Sweets, a ruthless crime lord who has bought out the entire police force and rules the city with an iron fist, and his ICP partner Shaggs 2 Dope (real name Joey Utsler) as Sugar Bear<ref>Dah dah dah dah DUN!</ref>, a streetwise loose cannon cop from San Francisco who speaks in rhyme and arrives in town intent on bringing Sweets to justice. The duo wear their trademark clown makeup throughout the entirety of the film, a fact which is never commented on by anyone.

To call the film campy would be like calling the surface of the sun a teeny bit warm. Written by Bruce in only a month, fueled by a less than shoestring budget, and plagued by conflict with the crew, who both hated the film and objected to their pay scale, the flick powers through its various shortcomings fueled mostly by the ballsy irreverence of its humor and the gloriously hammy performances of its cast.

 

 

The movie is a cult classic amongst ICP fans, who love it for its ridiculous humor and shameless camp value. Few of the rap group's many detractors bother to watch the film, and those few who do are less likely to appreciate it. A western themed follow-up titled ''[[Big Money Rustlas]]'' was released in 2010.

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* [[Achilles in His Tent]] / [[Heroic BSOD]]: Sugar Bear<ref>Dah dah dah dah DUN!</ref> loses faith in himself after {{spoiler|the Magic Ninjas kill Missy}} and resigns from police work. In fact, he's so depressed he can't even rhyme anymore!

* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Of 70s cop films and exploitation flicks.

* [[As Himself]]: Many of the actors are playing thinly veiled versions of themselves or their well known public personas, but there are also some notable aversions.

* [[Break the Fourth Wall]]: Frequent.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Officer Cox.

* [[Creative Closing Credits]]: Play over a comedy gunfight.

* [[Da Chief]]: Played by ''Jerky Boys'' star John Brennan.

* [[The Don]]: Big Baby Sweets.

* [[The Dragon]]: Hack Benjamin.

* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Dr. Dinglenuts.

* [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]]: Sugar Bear's<ref>Dah dah dah dah DUN!</ref> trademark cigarillos.

* [[Ho Yay]]: Intentionally played for laughs with Big Baby Sweets and his sidekicks, Lil Stank and Big Poot.

* [[How We Got Here]]: The whole film is actually {{spoiler|a flashback of Sugar Bear's<ref>Dah dah dah dah DUN!</ref>, who is attending the funeral of Officer Cox.}}

* [[I Am Not Spock]]: Moore and Foley were cast specifically to reprise their well-known fictional personas.

* [[Large Ham]]: Basically...everyone.

* [[Lovable Coward]]: Officer Harry Cox, the only clean cop on the force besides Sugar Bear... {{spoiler|or is he?}}

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: This movie lives and dies by this trope. It goes so far over the line so fast that the line might be only a distant dot in its rearview mirror.

* [[The Reveal]]: Big Baby Sweets' makeup is rubbed off, revealing that all along he was actually {{spoiler|Officer Cox!}} If you feel the need to point out that that doesn't at all make sense, you are [[Completely Missing the Point]].

* [[Shout-Out]]: Constant. Berry is directly referred to as "Rerun" and does his trademark dance. Mick Foley performs various mocking versions of his wrestling catch phrases.

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Big Baby Sweets eventually gets so fed up with Sugar Bear's trademark musical sting<ref>Dah dah dah dah DUN!</ref> that he kills the offending sound mixer (played by Mike E. Clark, the producer of much of ICP's discography and composer of this film's soundtrack).

* [[Stuffed Into the Fridge]]: {{spoiler|Missy. Actual fridge not used, probably because none with the requisite volume exists.}}

* [[The Parody]]

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Big Stank and Lil Poot.

* [[Title Drop]]: "Sweets was nothing but a big money hustla!"

* [[The Voiceless]]: Hack Benjamin.

* [[World of Ham]]: Believe it or not, Violent J might be the ''least'' over the top performer in this film!

* [[Wretched Hive]]: The city is so corrupt that prior to Sugar Bear's<ref>[[Overly Long Gag|Dah dah dah dah DUN!]]</ref> arrival there's only one cop on the entire force who isn't on the take.

** While said police officer is... otherwise occupied, it manages to somehow get ''worse'', culminating in Hack Benjamin leveling a building with a rocket launcher.

 

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