White Chicks 2004

John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: A moronic version of better gender-bending films. Read more

Erik Lundegaard, Seattle Times: An early candidate for worst movie of the year. Read more

Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Despite the best-paid efforts of six writers, including all three Wayanses, I couldn't suspend disbelief for a microsecond. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: [I]t's the worst movie of the year. Read more

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The satire may be broad, but it can be wickedly funny at times. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: The Wayans brothers' easy charisma and charming good nature make up for a lot of shortcomings. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: Even if it lingers a bit too long, White Chicks represents a solid accomplishment for the crowd-pleasing Wayans brothers. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: The premise veers wildly from its fertile setup, thanks to acting that isn't broad so much as grotesque, humor that's isn't smart so much as witlessly vulgar, and preposterous plotting that insults the intelligence. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Had White Chicks been funnier, smarter, there might have been some subversive value in seeing what the Wayans made of the absurd social rituals of white elites. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A tawdry excuse for a movie, but it has a handful of shameless giggles. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: A succession of thin sketches that add up to Some Like It Warmed Over. Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: If a festival of flatulence is your idea of fun, you'll think you've died and gone to heaven. Read more

Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Crude yet good-natured comedy. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: White Chicks is tedious and stupid, awkward and juvenile. That it makes not a lick of sense is the least of its problems. Read more

Jan Stuart, Newsday: White Chicks feels more like an idea for a TV sketch that would have been much fresher had it been inflated into a movie in the '90s. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Even though they go preachy in the end, these chicks with quips deliver scattered bouts of hilarity. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: If you want to laugh at cartoonishly shallow rich girls, you'd be much better off staying in to watch the new season of The Simple Life -- for free. Read more

Dave Kehr, New York Times: Most movies require some suspension of disbelief. But White Chicks ... requires something more radical than that. A full frontal lobotomy might be a good place to start. Read more

Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: Moronic. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: Men learning about the female experience by dressing as women is a nice sentiment, but Tootsie had that covered two decades ago. White Chicks should have tried for more. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The movie is much more interested in the flatulence gags it can wring out of lactose intolerance than lampooning social intolerance. Read more

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Peter Howell, Toronto Star: White Chicks has more laughs than it deserves, but also a story that is just plain lazy. Read more

Amy Simmons, Time Out: Most gags are as weak as they are derivative, offering little incentive to suspend one's disbelief, and as for the gender politics, well... you can only imagine. Read more

Mike Clark, USA Today: As with every other genre, there's a right way and a wrong way to handle dude-lawman comedies. Chicks does it right a lot of the time. Read more

David Rooney, Variety: Scores more hits than misses. Read more

Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: A plotless romp of Manolo wobbling, 'Omigod!' yipping, and broadly comic attempts to conceal that unsquashable manly lust and slangin' machismo. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Banshee-howlingly awful. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It's not what the Wayans brothers do, it's how they do it. They do it funny. Read more