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White Chicks (2004)
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Reviews Counted:121
Fresh:18
Rotten:103
Average Rating:3.7/10
Consensus: Scattershot comedy that's silly and obvious.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for crude and sexual humor, language and some drug content
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Jun 23, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $69,148,997
Synopsis: When a kidnapping threat is held over two wealthy heiresses in the Hamptons, inept FBI agents Kevin (Marlon Wayans) and Marcus Copeland (Shawn Wayans), try to help out by disguising themselves as... When a kidnapping threat is held over two wealthy heiresses in the Hamptons, inept FBI agents Kevin (Marlon Wayans) and Marcus Copeland (Shawn Wayans), try to help out by disguising themselves as WHITE CHICKS in this wacky screwball comedy. With a little help from the FBI's prosthetics department, the agents don blonde wigs, blue contact lenses, and pale body paint to transform themselves into two Hamptons-bound sisters looking to live it up for the weekend. Miraculously the agents find themselves a surprise hit with the Hamptons set, providing plenty of laughs and quizzical looks as they frequently slip out of character. The lewd jokes come thick and fast, providing plenty of opportunities for the Wayans brothers to flex their comedic muscles. They poke gentle fun at a number of targets, mostly along gender and race lines, but also at spoiled teenage girls, and botox-riddled fashionistas. Scenarios are engineered to heighten the awkwardness of the disguises, including a dance competition, shopping sprees, and a fashion show. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans (SCARY MOVIE) manipulates his characters' flimsy attempts to pass themselves off as white women to provide plenty of gross-out, body-related humor, but also wraps the film up with a few salient lessons in life for the bumbling detectives. [More]
Starring: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Jamie King, Frankie Faison
Starring: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Jamie King, Frankie Faison, Lochlyn Munro, John Heard
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Screenwriter: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
Producer: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans
Screenwriter: Andy McElfresh, Michael Anthony Snowden, Xavier Cook
Producer: Rick Alvarez, Lee R. Mayes
Studio: Columbia Pictures
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Reviews for White Chicks
Odds on you know what you're in for, so if you're prepared to shell out your reddies for it, you'll find it amicable enough.
Despite the attempts of the Academy Award-winning makeup artist behind Mrs. Doubtfire, these doubtful misfires can’t pass as white or as chicks.
Most gags are as weak as they are derivative, offering little incentive to suspend one’s disbelief, and as for the gender politics, well… you can only imagine.
Much of what passes for humor in White Chicks derives from such charming plot devices as the lactose intolerance of one of the brothers.
The premise veers wildly from its fertile setup, thanks to acting that isn't broad so much as grotesque, humor that's isn't smart so much as witlessly vulgar, and preposterous plotting that insults the intelligence.
Men learning about the female experience by dressing as women is a nice sentiment, but Tootsie had that covered two decades ago. White Chicks should have tried for more.
The movie drags on too long with too few punch lines and way too many trips to the powder room.
The movie is much more interested in the flatulence gags it can wring out of lactose intolerance than lampooning social intolerance.
White Chicks is tedious and stupid, awkward and juvenile. That it makes not a lick of sense is the least of its problems.
The cross-dressing comedy wouldn't be completely without homo-neurotic antics.
If you lie restlessly awake at night because you're deeply upset by the lack of flatulence gags in recent comedies, White Chicks is the answer to your prayers.
[A] wildly uneven comedy that has some laughs but probably contains more flatulence jokes than any movie should ever need.
Most movies require some suspension of disbelief. But White Chicks ... requires something more radical than that. A full frontal lobotomy might be a good place to start.
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