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Hey, it's Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge! It's not, of course, but you could be forgiven for confusing this stupendously inept movie with the fictional 'hood picture for which Robert Townsend is auditioning in HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE: It vacillates between being a painfully inauthentic 'hood movie and some kind of street-smart fairy tale with no street smarts at all, and it appears to have been made by people whose knowledge of urban African-American fashions, speech and behavior is entirely cribbed from cheap Blaxploitation movies. Looking for some fun, aimless hustler Curtis (Kevin Thigpen) and his buddies rough up a couple of cops, one of whom turns out to be Curtis'...