Don't even ask what it's about - I'm not kidding. The movie has three major red-flags before viewing -
a). it's written by Ice Cube.
b). one it's "stars" is Mike Epps.
c). the title of the movie is The Janky Promoters.
They were off to a bad start: BOX OFFICE FOR THE JANKY PROMOTERS
Opening Weekend: $5,702 (USA) (18 October 2009) (22 Screens)
**That's $260 per theater! To put it in perspective, I made $261 per theater just selling knock-off Dasani in the hallway.
**That's $260 per theater! To put it in perspective, I made $261 per theater just selling knock-off Dasani in the hallway.
Don't get your hopes up. The graphic design in this poster is better than the movie itself. Newsflash: It's a gawd-awful movie believe it or not. The duo play concert promoters trying to pull off a Young Jeezy show in their hometown. Their style? I'd call it Janky.
PS: To all you white people out there wondering what janky means, I can sum it up by saying "below average quality." It can be used as a substitute for "ghetto," "trashy" or "janktified."
EXAMPLE: I pull up in a broken-down car with rear bumper damage.
LT: "Oh sh*t! Look at this man's car... sh*t is janky as hell."MAN #2: "He's right! Look at the duct tape!!"

It seems that any creative juices Mr. Cube or Mr. Epps have or had were apparently dried up when it came time to name the movie. It'd be like if you wrote "Dazed & Confused" then couldn't think of a good title so you just called it "White Folks High School."
* - Epps is putting together quite the IMDB page... the guy is shaping up to be one of the most un-funny "comedians" of all time. I mean, get your money and all that good-for-him stuff (aka "I know I'm hating...") but this is just bad.
Don't believe me? Try and step to this hit-list:
* Both he and Cube were responsible for attempting to murder the genius of Friday by birthing Next Friday and Friday after Next. AWFUL.
* Next Day Air: Similar formula as the Next Friday/Janky Promoters. Two loveable and stoned idiots try to get rich while not getting murdered or thrown in jail. It's basically the same movie except that in Next Day Air, the main characters are deliverymen instead of concert promoters.* Epps was in Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins (which for some, reason, has, a, comma, in, the, title) as well as The Lottery Ticket, a movie I've ruthlessly attacked in the past.
* Epps must have a thing for projects with terrible titles. He was in a short-lived TV show called The Unsuccessful Thug.
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