The makeup job meant to establish the Wayans' as white women is one of the least convincing since Meryl Streep's rabbi in Angels in America.
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
White Chicks feels more like an idea for a TV sketch that would have been much fresher had it been inflated into a movie in the '90s.
Even though they go preachy in the end, these chicks with quips deliver scattered bouts of hilarity.
If you want to laugh at cartoonishly shallow rich girls, you'd be much better off staying in to watch the new season of The Simple Life -- for free.
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 movie drags on too long with too few punch lines and way too many trips to the powder room.
Even if it lingers a bit too long, White Chicks represents a solid accomplishment for the crowd-pleasing Wayans 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.
A succession of thin sketches that add up to Some Like It Warmed Over.
It's not even a funny premise, but the Wayans brothers stoop to new lows to eke out even one laugh. When they run out of racist humor, they turn to toilet humor.
Had White Chicks been funnier, smarter, there might have been some subversive value in seeing what the Wayans made of the absurd social rituals of white elites.
If a festival of flatulence is your idea of fun, you'll think you've died and gone to heaven.
Despite the best-paid efforts of six writers, including all three Wayanses, I couldn't suspend disbelief for a microsecond.
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