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DVD White Chicks (Unrated and Uncut Edition)
Roasted by critics but surprisingly tenacious at the box office, White Chicks is the kind of comedy that thrives (well, maybe) on home video. Faint praise indeed, but it allows comedy fans an opportunity to cut the Wayans brothers (costars Marlon and Shawn, and director-cowriter Keenen Ivory) some slack and at least try to answer the obvious question, what were they thinking? For the sake of charity, let's ignore charges of reverse racism that plagued this would-be comedy about a pair of FBI agents (Marlon and Shawn) who go undercover as over-privileged white debutantes to thwart a kidnapping scheme, and let's allow that comedy--not social satire--is the Wayans' top priority. If you can get past the fart jokes, the freakishly unconvincing "white chick" makeup, seemingly endless gags about "white chicks" getting hit on by lusty black guys, and a plot that really doesn't matter at all, you just might find a laugh or two in the Wayans' attempt to understand women through a bit of friendly gender reversal. Tootsie it's not, but at least White Chicks offers more entertainment that Nicky and Paris Hilton, who partially inspired the story. Just ask yourself, which freak show do you prefer? --Jeff Shannon
Review(s): DVD White Chicks (Unrated and Uncut Edition)
very disappointing
I'm a fan of the Wayans brothers - loved Don't Be A Menace and generally liked the Scary Movie series - but this was a real let-down. One of the curious things about their movies is there's usually an undercurrent of sexual ambivalence there. In this movie that's ruthlessly shut down from the get-go, so in the first scene in which the guys appear in drag as the white chicks, when some other guy makes a pass at them they immediately break character & turn macho because they're so appalled by the idea such a thing would happen. Since they've disguised themselves as (supposedly) pretty girls their reaction to what was inevitably going to happen makes them painfully dumb and it's hard to care about dumb characters.
I happened to finally catch up with Zoolander the other day and it shows that you can combine a thriller plot with comedy to good effect. Here the rather po-faced thriller element totally fails to mesh with the comedy, & the conventional romance sub-plot is a yawn. I don't mind things being ludicrous, but they must have some sort of internal logic to them. At one point there's a dance-off competition where our heroes throw down with all manner of fancy moves. Who knew that all FBI agents were such good dancers?
I actually liked the fact they looked kind of hideous in drag & make-up but still everyone believed they were the real girls. But even there construction was slack: in a scene where one agent is trying on a dress one of the real girls comes into the dressing room to help 'her' change. The real girl wrenches the guy's underpants up into a thong style, leading to him whooping in pain. What's slack is that she doesn't notice that this 'white chick' has a brown ass.
Maybe I zoned out right at the start (a very unfunny stakeout-gone-wrong sequence) but who was the guys' special friend who had all this amazing make-up & a team to apply it?
Another example of general laziness is that the 'girls' never worry about wigs or make-up going awry (not even when break-dancing on their heads) so the suspense of being in disguise is mostly thrown away.
It seems pointless to point out all the gaping holes in the plot but one example would be when one of the agents' wives thinks he is cheating on her. Now he could tell her the truth: that he's undercover. But instead he doesn't, leading to more senseless complications generated, I suspect, by a desire to give the sistas a slightly higher profile in the movie.
This could have been a really funny film. It could have made some sharp points about race & gender. It could - like the Wayans brothers' other flicks - have been a fun send-up of (in this case) drag movies. Instead it was a chore. You know when you find that you've wandered off to the bathroom or kitchen without pausing the dvd player? This is one of those. I got the feeling someone came up with the idea & then imported the Wayans brothers to make it into an appealing package - promotion-wise, that is. They are, as always, charismatic and watchable, but for me this was simply a dull film.
Could Of Died Out Laughing
I thought this movie was absolutely halarious.I mean when you have the Wayans brothers disguised as Brittany and Tiffany Wilson
it's going to be funny. I also liked when they auctioned off the women, and when Marlon went on a date with Latrell Spencer. I would reccomend this movie to people age 22 and below. And for all of you people that think that this movie is racist, you're absolutely wrong. If you haven't even seen the movie don't talk about stuff when you don't even know what it's about!
Absolutely hilarious!
Why do people take this film so seriously? Are people really that critical now that they take COMEDY movies SERIOUSLY. This film is one of the best comedies I have seen in a long time, in that I actually laughed until I cried. Forget ethnic stereotypes - this has been a part of black comedy for years have people just pulled their heads out of the sand or what? The point is: I have watched this film several times since I bought it and I never, ever tire of the constant gags which come naturally to two black men trying to be two white women. There isn't a scene where I don't laugh except for the pathetic storytelling, man gets moaned at by unappreciated wife, man gets insight into female psyche, all ends well man gets wife back, other man gets hot female reporter - cue cheesy music a few times in the movie. However, you allow for this because the part of the film which makes it so great is the other 1.4 hours and I refute anyone who denies it is pant-wetting stuff, especially if you are already a fan of The Wayans Brother's style of comedy. Buy it, see it or you will regret it and I'll have a BF!
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