Its not funny anymore (was it ever?)
Do Movie Producers Really Think We are This Stupid?
I have been seeing previews for this horrifyingly bad movie, White Chicks almost non-stop. It makes me wonder- what kind of idiot would want to go see a movie like this? 1. Men dressing up as women to solve a crime is no longer funny (was it ever?) Its been done about a million times. 2. The "white people are so lame jokes" are played out and no longer funny- in fact, they're offensive. Yeah, they might have been funny when Eddie Murphey did them in the 80's, or when Richard Pryor did them before that, or when Red Foxx did them before that. I guess the no-talent Wayans brothers thought everyone would think that hip black guys dressing up as lame white women would make for a hillarious combination. It doesn't- and I don't even have to go see the movie to make that statement. Simple turn on the WB and watch how white people are portrayed in every sit-com- its rude and its offensive, and if the table was turned, there would be outrage. ...and men dressing up as women hasn't been funny since Tootsie (Was it even funny then?).. relsie watch Hidalgo movie
white chicks is heaps funny.
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After collaborating on Don’t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Scary Movie, and Scary Movie 2 the Wayans boys are back and this time they’re tackling rich white socialite society in the movie White Chicks. Unlike their previous spoofs, this movie has a real plot, one with more holes in it than a chain link fence. The fifth directorial effort from Quentin Tarantino brought us the genius of this year’s Kill Bill: Volume II, yet Keenan Ivory Wayans’ fifth effort contains no effort. The Wayanses must be disbanded A.S.A.P.
First off, let me just get this off my chest. Keenan Ivory had to have worn a blindfold during the shoot. Either that or editor Jeff Gourson, has downs syndrome. The occasional random dip of a Boom microphone into a shot can be understandable if it isn’t caught. But throughout the entire movie the Boom mike kept popping in. The entire freaking movie. Part of the blame is on Keenen Ivory for hiring a narcoleptic boom operator, but also because the entire movie is framed all off. There is way too much space above their heads in the close-ups. How could a modestly budgeted summer movie have all this crap going wrong? Why wasn’t it spotted in the editing room? How could they have released a movie with all those problems? How could this have happened?
Anyway, onto the movie itself. F.B.I. agents Marcus and Kevin Copeland are bumbling wild cops with an affinity for undercover antics. We first meet them disguised as Cuban bodega owners to bust a drug deal. The deal goes bad, their superior officer (Frankie Faison) is pissed off, and the pair are delegated to pick up two cruise line heiresses from the airport and escort them to the Hamptons. After a car accident the two “chicks” are injured (minor scratches) and refuse to go to the Hamptons. With their jobs on the line, the Copelands pose as the Wilsons to weed out potential kidnappers and keep their jobs...and comedy ensues. Well, not really. There are no surprises here. It’s the typical cavalcade of black people are cooler and hipper then white people scenarios, complete with a dance off. At least they didn’t play a game of Basketball.
There are a few light chuckles but nothing that will have you rolling the aisles. You’ll cringe at the prat falls and roll your eyes at the fart jokes. But it’s a relief to see Marlon Wayans in a “Wayans Brothers movie” not completely overacting and hamming for the camera. In his non make-upped scenes he actually appears have taken his Ritalin.
Like every “make-up” comedy since Tootsie, events unfold where men have to disguise themselves in order to infiltrate a given situation. The difference is in Tootsie, Mrs. Doubtfire, and even 1991's True Identity is that the lead characters were actors trying to advance their career, spend more time with their children, or hide out from a Mafioso. White Chicks, like Big Momma’s House, has the lead characters as F.B.I. Agents. These Agents are infiltrating the lives of real people and becoming them. The problem is that their make-up effects in no way make them look like who they’re trying to impersonate. Shawn and Marlon Wayans look more like creepy bleach blond Michael Jackson twins than spitting images of pseudo-Hiltons Brittany and Tiffany Wilson (Maitland Ward and Anne Dudek). True Identity pulled off the black guy in white face act a lot better, maybe because its less of a stretch to became a white guy than a “White Chick”.
The film is formulaic and the humor sophomoric and with a PG-13 rating, you can tell the Wayanses held back a little. Maybe it would’ve worked better with an R. White Chicks is atypical in every sense of the word. To see a good comedy this weekend, go out for Shrek 2 again or head over to Blockbuster and rent True Identity if you really want to see decent facial interracial comedy.
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White Chicks is my all time favourite
Hot Chicks are also my favourite of all time.
Fentse92
the jokes in this movie are timeless.
denisesmiles
IT IS SO FUNNY!.
denisesmiles
HAHAHAHAHA.
kshajane
this movie is so funny. XD.
twright2657
great movie real funny..
Horrific "comedy"
This is the worst horror movie I've ever seen. I admit that it's scary,
but it's not a fun kind of scary. It's depressing and makes you hate life. Shawn and Marlon Wayans play Kevin and Marcus Copeland, two wildly incompetent FBI agents who impersonate a pair of hotel heiresses in order to uncover a kidnapping scheme. The comedy or the horror arises out of these black New Yorkers' attempts to mimic spoiled white girls. They fool everyone, even the girls' intimate friends. This despite that their latex masks make them look like the living dead. I noticed that the real girls' mom has a hideous, stretched-out face, but we get only fleeting glimpses of her. My guess is, there were some gags involving plastic surgery that got cut from the movie when someone realized that the mother still looks better than the Wayans brothers. Now, I can suspend my disbelief for anything even the idea that tall black men in zombie makeup look like cute white chicks. But the movie doesn't seem to want to help me. The Wayans' characters and thus the Wayans themselves seem very uncomfortable committing to their parts. When they first don their get-ups, these blithering idiots are mystified and furious when guys hit on them. Kevin (or is it Marcus?) drops his drawers and nearly moons them before he realizes he's disguised as a woman. Boing! This kind of hyperbolic stupidity infects every character without exception and makes spending two years (sic) with them an ordeal. Maybe once or twice, by sheer chance, something funny happens. Marcus has an insanely jealous wife who complains of waiting up for him all night, even though it's only 8:02 and he's two minutes late. I laughed, but writer-director Keenan Ivory Wayans must have included this joke by accident. He's more interested in flatulence, dildos and homosexual panic. Meanwhile, the people and types skewered in this movie come off like parodies of cartoons of parodies seven degrees separated from any actual people. I just noticed that I wrote "two years" instead of "two hours." I swear to you that's a real typo. When I tell you I hate this "comedy," I mean it.. |
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