A film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater.
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
The Wayans brothers' easy charisma and charming good nature make up for a lot of shortcomings.
Then the audacity fades into oddity, and the outrageous grinds into out and out stasis.
You look at the trailer for White Chicks and you think, 'It can't possibly be that bad. If it's that bad, our rating scale will have to include negative numbers.'
It goes places... bad places. Creepy, skin-crawling, 'no, mommy, not the clown suit' places. Places that chew at the subconscious and lurk in the hidden recesses of nightmare.
I held out hope that one of the stars from Alien vs. Predator might wander onto the set and devour all of these painfully unfunny people. Now that's comedy!
Clearly made with the intention of discovering a whole new sublevel beneath Lowest Common Denominator, White Chicks is easily one of the worst "comedies" I've ever seen
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.
A series of skits clumsily assembled into a sometimes unintelligible narrative.
Even within the context of a gimmicky comedy, the idea of the Wayans looking like white women is a stretch the movie can't pull off. They look more like cast members of Cats.
If White Chicks isn't quite up to Some Like It Hot or Tootsie standards (and it's not), it may be because the Wayanses, who also wrote the script, never find a story to support a scattershot collection of jokes.
... may not exactly knock your Jimmy Choos off, but Shawn and Marlon Wayans are so mesmerizing in their Juicy Couture you'll practically forget all about the lame storyline.
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.
It takes a premise that is unworkable to begin with, stretches it so far that no one will buy it, and then utilizes only the stalest and most obvious jokes anyway.
White Chicks is a slapstick, silly, sometimes crude comedy with some jokes that leave you laughing, and others that fall very short of the mark.
... feels like a feature-length sketch: Some Like It Hot with a white-face twist.
Director Keenen Ivory Wayans and his co-conspirators -- his brothers, co-writers and stars Shawn and Marlon -- along with a swarm of co-writers and co-producers throw everything at the screen to see what sticks. A fair amount does.
I chuckled just once through this 105 minute affair, and that just doesn’t cut it.
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