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Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

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30

Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 92
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 64

There are some laughs, but not enough to sustain the running time.

14

Average Rating: 4.2/10
Critic Reviews: 28
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 24

There are some laughs, but not enough to sustain the running time.

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52

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Average Rating: 2.6/5
User Ratings: 51,038

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Movie Info

A rich kid who likes to pretend he's from the wrong side of the tracks gets a taste of the real thing in this comedy. Brad Gluckman (Jamie Kennedy) is the son of a wealthy and socially prominent couple (Ryan O'Neal and Bo Derek) and grew up in the lap of luxury in Malibu, CA. However, Brad likes to imagine he's a street-smart gangsta from the mean streets of L.A., and he's been trying to launch a career as a hardcore rapper under the name "B-Rad." Mr. Gluckman is running for Governor of

PG-13,

Comedy

Fax Bahr, Adam Small, Jamie Kennedy, Nick Swardson

Sep 9, 2003

$34.3M

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Most Wanted isn't aiming for social commentary, but it isn't too difficult to enjoy its good-natured humor.

April 22, 2003 Full Review Source: Village Voice
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Jamie Kennedy's B-Rad is based on a character from his TV show -- and as the centerpiece for a sketch, he's hilarious. But the B-Rad joke wears thin when stretched across a feature-length film.

April 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper
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Wanted isn't quite the real Slim Shady of hip-hop comedies. But you might lose yourself in a few of its amusing moments.

April 18, 2003
Washington Post
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Think of a B-grade Bulworth with lesser talents than A-listers Warren Beatty and Halle Berry.

April 18, 2003 Full Review Source: USA Today
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Maybe in a half-hour format, the idea would stand up. But in a feature film, B-Rad's schtick seems like a one-note song.

April 18, 2003 Full Review Source: Toronto Star
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The Jamie Kennedy comedy vehicle Malibu's Most Wanted faces a seemingly insurmountable problem: It's really a lot better when Kennedy isn't on screen.

April 18, 2003
Seattle Times
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Dumb movie, but some funny moments for teens.

December 25, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media
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Ryan O'Neal gets more laughs in a few scenes than Chris Rock managed in all of Head of State.

January 4, 2004 Full Review

Jamie Kennedy needs to be stopped.

September 6, 2003 | Comment (1)
Las Vegas Weekly

The movie flirts with incisive, witty segments, but it's ultimately yet another anti-inflammatory comedy about racial identity that devolves into a one-joke affair.

June 26, 2003 Full Review

Malibu's Most Wanted absconds with a simplistic but imaginative plot and elevates it beyond the realm of sketch comedy into legitimate cinematic territory - for real, y'all.

May 30, 2003 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com

Not as inspired as White Boyz.

May 28, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Snobs
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I laughed during the whole movie...the trick to stupid comedy is earnestness - these guys have that out the wazoo.

May 12, 2003 Full Review

The problem with Most Wanted has plagued most of the Saturday Night Live movies. What's funny in a five-minute sketch, may not be funny for an hour and a half.

May 2, 2003

The funniest part of the movie are the out-takes at the end, but those aren't worth the price of admission, wait for the DVD.

April 27, 2003 Full Review Source: Zap2it.com
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Audience Reviews for Malibu's Most Wanted

Jaime Kennedy's magnum opus about a white kid/wannabe/ghetto hood makes valid social commentary while garnering a few chuckles. Its point is made by the fact that everyone by now knows a least one somebody "keepin it real!" who really ain't, but don't know it yet.
January 22, 2012
UniversalDreamer

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"Don't be hatin'"

A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.

REVIEW
Great premise, but they managed to muck it up. This flick was big on stereotypes; small on imagination. A lot of the humor was sophomoric and crass; indicating a not- too - mature writing staff. Some adult supervision would have greatly enhanced this predictable bore. The casting was great - all the main characters were quite capable and the movie did have its moments. Jamie Kennedy had the rap-wannabe dialect down. The movie quickly became bogged down with racial stereotyping, however: hostile blacks, lots of guns, women as sex objects. This film had lots of potential - it just needed some direction and, in the end, originality. The word "bitch" was used so frequently as it would indicate that the script writer received royalties for it. "Bitch", "bee-och"; it quickly graduated from offensive to nauseating.
August 15, 2009
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    1. Brad Gluckman: Traffic traffic Looking for my chapstick Feeling kinda carsick There's a ford maverick.
    – Submitted by Domenica D (16 months ago)
    1. PJ: Don't be hatin'.
    – Submitted by Nate W (21 months ago)

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