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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins

Genre: Comedies

US 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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Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
04/29/09
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed

Complements the awfulness of its protagonists' Caucasian camouflage with putrid bathroom humor, pitiable romance and brainless racial/social commentary.

Full Review Source: Lessons of Darkness | comment Comment
06/27/06
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
Lessons of Darkness

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.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Amy Simmons
Amy Simmons
Time Out

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.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
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Let's forget about the clunky plot and shallow characters. Let's forget about the racist undertones of the film. Bottom line, the white chicks scare me. Seriously. They're freaky looking. They are the stuff of nightmares.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
Film Threat

Think Mean Girls rewritten by Joe Piscopo.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Rick Kisonak
Rick Kisonak
Film Threat

Amid an overbearing story that suffocates its humor, Chicks' increasingly repetitive and tired jokes reek of a comedy on autopilot.

Full Review Source: Zertinet Movies | comment Comment
10/19/05
Steven Snyder
Steven Snyder
Zertinet Movies

From frame one, the screen is populated with broad, unfunny caricatures and no one resembling an actual person.

Full Review Source: TheMovieReport.com | comment Comment
01/07/05
Michael Dequina
Michael Dequina
TheMovieReport.com

... a bottom-of-the-page, jump-it-deep-inside meaningless movie review written by a dog

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
01/02/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Quem disse aos irmãos Wayans que eles são engraçados? Provavelmente a mesma pessoa que os convenceu de que a maquiagem utilizada no filme era boa...

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12/03/04
Pablo Villaca
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena

Stupid, crude, inept, illogical, and, alas, very funny.

Full Review Source: Las Vegas Mercury | comment Comment
11/04/04
Anthony Del Valle
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury

White Girls is something of a guilty pleasure -- it's undeniably crass and stupid but it's also frequently hilarious.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment 2 Comments
10/19/04
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

The Wayans brothers are gifted actors-filmmakers, so why is it that they continually make lazy, unchallenging movies?

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
10/19/04
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

Wayans takes one (unfunny) joke and runs with it far beyond the realms of plausibility to a point where even Michael Jackson would draw the line.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
10/19/04
Stella Papamichael
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BBC

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10/07/04
Tony Medley
Tony Medley
tonymedley.com

The problem with spoofing two chicks whose 15 minutes are almost up is that no mater how funny it is, once their time is over, so is the movie’s.

Full Review Source: Richmond.com | comment Comment
10/06/04
Mike Ward
Mike Ward
Richmond.com

Filmgoers will enjoy their own insiders' look at the excess and at a fraction of the price.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
08/08/04
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

It’s the Wayans’ reluctance to upset anyone that misses colliding class and value differences into real hilarity.

Full Review Source: Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) | comment Comment
07/20/04
Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

As dead and tasteless as last week's leftovers.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
07/15/04
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
Internet Reviews
 
 
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