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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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A film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
06/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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The satire may be broad, but it can be wickedly funny at times.

Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
06/23/04
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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The Wayans brothers' easy charisma and charming good nature make up for a lot of shortcomings.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
06/23/04
Randy Cordova
Randy Cordova
Arizona Republic
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Then the audacity fades into oddity, and the outrageous grinds into out and out stasis.

Full Review Source: Arizona Daily Star | comment Comment
06/23/04
Phil Villarreal
Phil Villarreal
Arizona Daily Star

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.'

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
06/23/04
Sarah Chauncey
Sarah Chauncey
Reel.com

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.

Full Review Source: Flipside Movie Emporium | comment Comment
06/23/04
Rob Vaux
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium

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!

Full Review Source: Des Moines Register | comment Comment
06/23/04
Jeffrey Bruner
Jeffrey Bruner
Des Moines Register

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

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
06/23/04
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
06/23/04
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
New York Times
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A series of skits clumsily assembled into a sometimes unintelligible narrative.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
06/23/04
Megan Lehmann
Megan Lehmann
New York Post

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.

Full Review Source: Boston Herald | comment Comment
06/23/04
Paul Sherman
Paul Sherman
Boston Herald

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.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
06/23/04
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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... 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.

Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
06/23/04
Guylaine Cadorette
Guylaine Cadorette
Hollywood.com

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.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
06/23/04
Dan Lybarger
Dan Lybarger
eFilmCritic.com

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.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
06/22/04
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

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.

Full Review Source: WaffleMovies.com | comment Comment
06/22/04
Willie Waffle
Willie Waffle
WaffleMovies.com

... feels like a feature-length sketch: Some Like It Hot with a white-face twist.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
06/22/04
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

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.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
06/22/04
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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I chuckled just once through this 105 minute affair, and that just doesn’t cut it.

Full Review Source: Apollo Guide | comment Comment
06/22/04
Jamie Gillies
Jamie Gillies
Apollo Guide

A woefully unfunny slapstick farce in which even the makeup is bad.

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
06/22/04
Frank Swietek
Frank Swietek
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