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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 19618
Released: January 11, 2005 |
| Our Price: $5.79 |
| Used Price: $3.40 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
When a young boy finds that he doesn't fit in with the other kids at school and doesn't relate to his mother he finds a home with the city's pimps and hos. Soon the little pimp is deemed corrupted by his mother and the city's corrupted mayor who wants to shut the pimps down for his own diabolic purposes.System Requirements: Runnining Time 80 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R UPC: 031398171355 Manufacturer No: 17135
Description of Lil' Pimp:
Lil' Pimp is the kind of feature-length cartoon that gives Bill Cosby nightmares while gathering a cult following in the hip-hop community. It's the kind of crude, outrageous, and utterly tasteless entertainment that makes conservatives cringe and liberals reconsider the right to free speech. It also happens to be subversively funny enough to qualify as a guilty pleasure, if you can gear into the sheer kitsch of its animated story, in which an innocent, small-town white kid helps a hooker-in-distress (voice of Lil' Kim), hooks up with her pimp (Bernie Mac), learns the rules of pimpin' ("A pimp must possess style, must defend his turf, and has gotta turn out a square lady"), and foils the plot of a corrupt mayor (William Shatner, having fun while slummin' it) who wants to monopolize the pimpin' game. If it had the irreverent intelligence of South Park, this in-yo'-face adult cartoon might've been an urban classic. Instead it's just a juvenile romp with impressive hip-hop street-cred, not to mention fart jokes, lots of booty-licious ho's, a foul-mouthed ferret (Ludacris), and an incorruptible hero who makes Huggy Bear look like a rank amateur. It's no surprise this went straight-to-video, but it's guaranteed to get some props by its obvious target audience. --Jeff Shannon
Lil' Pimp Reviews:
Love It 
2007-11-09 - I love this film. I thought that it was real funny. I was told to watch this when I was stationed in Korea it started and I thought that this was going to be cheesy but it got good. If you dont like racist comments or bad language this is not the movie for you. NOT FOR KIDS.
Lil' Pimp 
2007-01-29 - I truly enjoyed this movie, it was soo funny. I the quality of the disk that I received and the speed in which I received my order was awesome.
I admit I thought this was good.
2006-01-26 - I surprised myself with this. A friend and I watched this last night and we were in hysterics. It's crude, sure. It's gross at times, sure. But I guess small things for small minds (me) and I actually liked this. I love all things Bernie Mac. He's great, and I didn't think I could go wrong with Bernie and animation. The ferret (Ludacris) was hillarious and in fact everyone did a great job. This isn't for everyone. I think you need to let go of your defences watching it, and whether you admit it or not, you will probably like it. It's good escapism with lots of potty jokes, but put that aside and just enjoy the ride.
keep it Pimpin 
2006-01-22 - that Little white Boy turning into a Pimp cracks me up. His Mommy turned out real nicely sweet double Lawd Jesus!!!Ludacris was funny as well. dug the voices in the film. there was a message involved from start to finish.this is a cool little film.
Straight to Vidaho
2005-12-28 - Many of the better films nowadays are cartoons. In the mid 90s when Disney brought Hollywood back on track with the "Lion King" and "Aladdin", adult viewers claimed that these films were made for adults too. Unforunately, that became an excuse used by adults who didn't actually have adult cartoons readily available for their viewing pleasure.
Yes, "Lil Pimp" has an adult themed plot. The plot wasn't really what it needed in order to go from being an average cartoon to a good animation. The movie actually needed to connect with the audience it was aimed for. The main charater in "Lil Pimp" is a young white child. Although the idea of a young white kid learning how to be a pimp seems funny, it wasn't in the film. For more laughable humor go watch "Madagascar". The viewing pleasure of the cartoon laid strictly in sexy cartoon figures.
The truth is that this film was aimed at the wrong audience. The audience that this film should have been aimed at does not exist. We are talking about a cartoon that is to hard for kids and to soft for adults. The sad part of cartoon was the attempt to create touching family moments within the film. The reunion of mother and son........please. Of course this movie was going straight to video.
