 Reviews don't come much more caustic than many of those for White Chicks, starring Marlon and Shawn Wayans as black FBI agents disguised as versions of the Hilton heiresses, opening today (Wednesday). "Most movies require some suspension of disbelief," Dave Kehr remarks at the start of his review in the New York Times, but in the case of White Chicks, "a full frontal lobotomy" might be in order. Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune adds: "Dumb, crazy humor isn't exactly in short supply in movies these days, but White Chicks may have broken the 'Give me a break' barrier." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times had a similar reaction, writing, "Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater." And Philip Wuntch in the Dallas Morning News remarks: "White Chicks gives you just what you expect, assuming your expectations are low enough." On the other hand, Jan Stuart in Newsday calls the movie "surprisingly good-natured," and Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution describes it as "a buoyant farce that's a lot more clever than you might expect." |
