White Chicks (Unrated and Uncut Edition)
by Keenen Ivory Wayans
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Actor: Busy Philipps, Jaime King, Maitland Ward, Marlon Wayans, Shawn WayansDirector: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Brand: Sony
Writer: Marlon Wayans
Writer: Shawn Wayans
Producer: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Writer: Keenen Ivory Wayans
Writer: Andrew McElfresh
Writer: Michael Anthony Snowden
Writer: Xavier Cook
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 109 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-10-26
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of White Chicks (Unrated and Uncut Edition)
DVD Review: very disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
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.
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