Now, I don't personally have a problem admitting it when I like a 'chick flick' (Mean Girls, for example) but White Chicks is not only not a chick flick, but is in fact absolutely abysmal. No ifs, no buts, it is terrible. Yes, I would even go so far as to say it was *worse* than Catwoman. Those of you who know me will now appreciate just how bad it actually is.
Now don't get me wrong here, I approached it with a relatively open mind. Although I had my reservations, expecting it to be crap, I allowed myself to think about the possibilities of what could happen, and how it *could* be good. How I wish I hadn't bothered.
The jokes are ruined by the predictability and unoriginality, the plot is ludicrous and thoroughly unconvincing (need I give an example? Oh, OK then, how about the fact THEY DIDN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THE ACTUAL GIRLS!!). Most punchlines, and even the slapstick, is so obvious that one can see it coming a mile away. It's full of cliches and things that have been done before. There was not a single moment in the film when I found myself surprised at what happened. I knew exactly where the film was heading the entire time, which obviously killed the "humour" before it had a chance to work.
Not to mention the make-up, which took a whole team of make-up artists to do in the first place, in a montage, a MONTAGE, people! (it must therefore have taken quite some time!!) could then be simply put on and off by one of them alone, in a matter of minutes. And of course all of the girls' closest friends fell for it hook, line and sinker, despite the fact they looked nothing like the girls they were supposed to be.
It is also the worst so-called 'comedic' portrayal of the FBI ever. They are portrayed as a bunch of undisciplined muppets who just screw everything up, and seem to have no training at all whatsoever. Obviously the real FBI is not like this... I'm sure they have both training and discipline.
It is a film *completely* devoid of realism, and the only snigger out of me was when the big bald black dude started raving. The Wayan brothers have sunk to a new low with this one... If it were a parody, then, yeah, it would probably have worked. Sort yourselves out boys.
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