White Chicks
So now we have probably one of the weirdest comedies of the year. Another one about someone living someone else's life. However, does this movie give us a fun take on the story? Let's find out.
The movie opens with a deal being done in a convenient store. After some talking, the store owners take off their disguise to reveal that they're our two main undercover cops, Kevin (Shawn Wayans) and Marcus Copeland (Marlon Wayans). After capturing the guy, they discover that he wasn't delivering them drugs, but was giving them ice cream. The actual guy they wanted came in, but got away from them shortly after. The police chief, Elliot Gordon (Frankie Faison), informs the guys that they'll lose their jobs if they let something like this happen again. The next day, the two guys agree to be put on the next case, no matter what it is. It turns out the case is about a rumored kidnapping of two beautiful rich women. They go to the airport to pick up the girls and on their way back to the hotel room, they crash the car causing the girls to get minor bruises. These bruises upset them to the point where they decide to call the police chief. To stop them, one of the guys tells them that if they step out of the room, everyone will see their scars. So the girls agree to stay in the room, but to prevent them from losing their jobs, the guys agree to disguise themselves as the girls until they capture whoever is planning to kidnap them.
Let's get this part out of the way since there's not much good to say here. All I can really think of that's positive for the film is that the concept is interesting, especially for a comedy.
Where oh where can I possibly begin with this movie. Just to get this out of the way, the movie is painfully unfunny. Every joke is extremely uncreative, disgusting, racist, and sexist. What's worse is that a lot of these terrible jokes get repeated a lot through out the movie. Heck, the main plot of the movie is just one really long racist joke. Think about it the other way around. If two white guys dressed up as black women, a lot of people would be upset at the attempt of trying to make it funny. However, not many people of the general audience seems to care that this is happening. The very few jokes I so much as chuckled at came from Terry Crews, a very funny comedian that gives a very sour performance here. I can't blame the guy. He tries the best he can with the few lines he's given, but he's not given any moments to shine or say anything funny. The attempts at jokes in the movie seem to really get in the way of the lessons or messages it tries to send. It tries to send this message that men should listen more to their wives and not be so hard on them, but every time it tries, a really dumb joke comes in and ruins the moment. As for the other characters, well the three girls that hang out with the main characters do nothing but shout exposition at every chance they get and everyone is just a gigantic cliche such as most of them being the rich person that thinks that they own everyone and everything. The two bad guys, if you can even consider them that, are nothing more than two bratty girls that are given no reason to be brats to the main characters other than not being able to tell a good yo mama joke. We know nothing else about these girls until the end of the movie, but even then it's bare minimum and explains nothing. There's also a terribly choreographed dance scene that looks really fake and comes out of nowhere. The two bad girls just pick some random chicks out of the crowd, I guess since they only came with each other and not a whole group, and yet these random girls know the exact moves they need to do. As for the plot, it's forgettable for the most part since most of the movie isn't even focused on it. Heck, I forgot that the other two girls back in the hotel room even existed until a completely unnecessary scene that only exists to get more dirty jokes thrown in.
So should you watch White Chicks? Unless you wish to die a very painful death of how terrible this movie is, I'd recommend looking away from anything that has this movie on it. It feels like it was written by 7-year-olds that just discovered that girls are attractive and was intended to be watched by those 7-year-olds. It's a very childish movie that I can't imagine anyone over the age of 9 enjoying. Yet I can bet that most of the world will prove me wrong.
The movie opens with a deal being done in a convenient store. After some talking, the store owners take off their disguise to reveal that they're our two main undercover cops, Kevin (Shawn Wayans) and Marcus Copeland (Marlon Wayans). After capturing the guy, they discover that he wasn't delivering them drugs, but was giving them ice cream. The actual guy they wanted came in, but got away from them shortly after. The police chief, Elliot Gordon (Frankie Faison), informs the guys that they'll lose their jobs if they let something like this happen again. The next day, the two guys agree to be put on the next case, no matter what it is. It turns out the case is about a rumored kidnapping of two beautiful rich women. They go to the airport to pick up the girls and on their way back to the hotel room, they crash the car causing the girls to get minor bruises. These bruises upset them to the point where they decide to call the police chief. To stop them, one of the guys tells them that if they step out of the room, everyone will see their scars. So the girls agree to stay in the room, but to prevent them from losing their jobs, the guys agree to disguise themselves as the girls until they capture whoever is planning to kidnap them.
Let's get this part out of the way since there's not much good to say here. All I can really think of that's positive for the film is that the concept is interesting, especially for a comedy.
Where oh where can I possibly begin with this movie. Just to get this out of the way, the movie is painfully unfunny. Every joke is extremely uncreative, disgusting, racist, and sexist. What's worse is that a lot of these terrible jokes get repeated a lot through out the movie. Heck, the main plot of the movie is just one really long racist joke. Think about it the other way around. If two white guys dressed up as black women, a lot of people would be upset at the attempt of trying to make it funny. However, not many people of the general audience seems to care that this is happening. The very few jokes I so much as chuckled at came from Terry Crews, a very funny comedian that gives a very sour performance here. I can't blame the guy. He tries the best he can with the few lines he's given, but he's not given any moments to shine or say anything funny. The attempts at jokes in the movie seem to really get in the way of the lessons or messages it tries to send. It tries to send this message that men should listen more to their wives and not be so hard on them, but every time it tries, a really dumb joke comes in and ruins the moment. As for the other characters, well the three girls that hang out with the main characters do nothing but shout exposition at every chance they get and everyone is just a gigantic cliche such as most of them being the rich person that thinks that they own everyone and everything. The two bad guys, if you can even consider them that, are nothing more than two bratty girls that are given no reason to be brats to the main characters other than not being able to tell a good yo mama joke. We know nothing else about these girls until the end of the movie, but even then it's bare minimum and explains nothing. There's also a terribly choreographed dance scene that looks really fake and comes out of nowhere. The two bad girls just pick some random chicks out of the crowd, I guess since they only came with each other and not a whole group, and yet these random girls know the exact moves they need to do. As for the plot, it's forgettable for the most part since most of the movie isn't even focused on it. Heck, I forgot that the other two girls back in the hotel room even existed until a completely unnecessary scene that only exists to get more dirty jokes thrown in.
So should you watch White Chicks? Unless you wish to die a very painful death of how terrible this movie is, I'd recommend looking away from anything that has this movie on it. It feels like it was written by 7-year-olds that just discovered that girls are attractive and was intended to be watched by those 7-year-olds. It's a very childish movie that I can't imagine anyone over the age of 9 enjoying. Yet I can bet that most of the world will prove me wrong.