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Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Writer: Keenen Ivory, Shawn, Marlon Wayans
Producers: Keenen Ivory, Shawn, Marlon Wayans
Actors:
Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans Terry Crews |
God knows I might not laugh at these things if I watch the movie again in a year, but tonight…half of it was funny. And by the way, the guys transformed into the white girls don’t look anything like the real girls, and actually look extremely creepy in a sort of “I don’t want to look, but I can’t help it” way, but that sort of grew on me as well…kind of like a fungus. Some of their one-liners were also pretty good, including “Martha Stewart broke or MC Hammer broke?”, “Blackie Chan!” and the obvious play on the word “nigga”, which freaks a few white girls out at first, only to be subdued once they are reminded that there are no black people around to hear them. That reminded me of that old SNL Eddie Murphy sketch where he dressed up like a white man and noticed how differently white people acted around each other, when there were no black people around. Hilarious skit! Incidentally, the film does make fun of both white and black stereotypes, but the white ones are mostly of “rich, snooty” white folk, so it likely won’t bother them much, while the black stereotypes have to do with the men being “dogs” and having big dicks, and the women being suspicious of their men and having great asses…not exactly the worst things to be stereotyped as, eh? As for the story, it’s about as lame as they come, but they really don’t concentrate on it much, and rather use its loose parameters to provide the Wayans’ brothers open season to act out a variety of skits. That is until the film’s finale which goes idiotically over-the-top with a weak fashion show and an even weaker shoot-out. In the end, this is a dumb comedy written by six people (!!) that won’t win any “artistic” awards but does toss enough hotties, toilet humor, visual gags and one-liners into the mix, as to make you forget how clichéd and unsubstantial it really is.
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