- Film Review
- Reviewed By Leslie Felperin
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1 out of 5
In this terminally lowbrow comedy from the director of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, real-life siblings Marlon and Shawn Wayans play FBI agents and black brothers Marcus and Kevin Copeland. To save their jobs after messing up a drugs bust, the dim-witted pair are forced to don latex masks, flesh-tight miniskirts and receive a full-body blanching in order to impersonate and protect a couple of spoilt, brattish socialites who bear more than a passing resemblance to Paris and Nikki Hilton. The central interracial, cross-dressing idea might have provided a clever engine for risk-taking humour, but doesn't come close. Neutered and trite, White Chicks falls back on stale gags such as having a man become besotted with one of the "sisters", a schtick that worked in the classic Some Like It Hot but seems a serious failure of imagination on the part of the film's six... count 'em, six... writers. Even the movie's flatulence jokes fall flat, and that takes some doing.
Plot Summary
Comedy starring Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans. Two black brothers are threatened with expulsion from the FBI following a failed drugs bust. In an attempt to save their jobs, they disguise themselves as rich, white socialite sisters to uncover and foil a kidnapping plot.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Kevin Copeland
- Shawn Wayans
- Marcus Copeland
- Marlon Wayans
- Heather Vandergeld
- Jaime King
- Section Chief Elliott Gordon
- Frankie Faison
- Agent Jake Harper
- Lochlyn Munro
- Warren Vandergeld
- John Heard
- Karen
- Busy Philipps
- Latrell Spencer
- Terry Crews
- Megan Vandergeld
- Brittany Daniel
- Agent Vincent Gomez
- Eddie Velez
Crew
- Director
- Keenen Ivory Wayans
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