I
don't know which is the most unbelievable aspect of the Wayans boys latest
venture into crude humor, White Chicks -- that two Black men could be
believable as white women or that a script this anemic would take six people
to write it. This one's straight out of the "Let's take a funny idea for a
5-minute skit and milk it for all it's worth for 90+ minutes" bag, and in
those minutes, it shouldn't surprise you to know that only five minutes worth
of good movie will be had.
Shawn and Marlon Wayans (Scary
Movie, Scary Movie 2)
star as Kevin and Marcus Copeland, two brothers who just so happen to be
partners working as FBI agents. It seems the harder they try to nab their bad
guys, the more in hot water they get, as their ability to put on disguises and
go undercover can't hide the fact that these two are as inept as they come.
Their latest assignment is to take the heiress daughters to a fortune,
Brittany and Tiffany, to the resort spot of the Hamptons, where they can be
monitored closely for an impending kidnapping plot that the Feds believe is
about to go down. When an accident leaves the girls faces blemished, they
refuse to play along, and not wanting to fail yet again, the Copeland brothers
decide to do things themselves -- disguising themselves as Brittany and
Tiffany!
Suspension of disbelief is a given for
this comedy to work, as these are two of the ugliest women you might ever have
the misfortune of seeing in your lifetime. It's not just that the Wayans
don't look like women. They don't look even look human!
This formula is tired. You've seen
the man posing as woman angle before, as well as the Black posing as white
before. A combination of the two does not an original film make, as the same
type of situations from other similar films emerge, and sadly, outside of some
very crude toilet humor, the Wayans have nothing new to add. You've got the
man who becomes obsessed with one of the women, the jealous wife, the snotty
girlfriends, and the hard to wear women's clothing scenes.
This film is just so shamefully bad, I
not only feel guilty for admitting I viewed it, I am more ashamed that I
actually laughed on a couple of occasions. Yes, believe it or not, amid all
of the bad plotting and gross-out shenanigans, a couple of moments of hilarity
do emerge. Alas, not nearly enough to overcome the severe flaws inherent in a
film this ridiculous.
A horrible plot, overused story
elements, and tasteless humor fill up most of the running time, making
White Chicks one of the weakest films of 2004. If only the Wayans
televisions shows would stop getting cancelled, perhaps this could have been
done as it should have, as skit comedy, instead of subjecting us to two hours
of unappealing dreck.
If you find fart humor endlessly
funny, White Chicks was made just for you. Quite an appropriate
comedic device for a film that stinks this bad.
Qwipster's rating:
©2004 Vince Leo
