Critic Reviews
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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.
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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.
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Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
[I]t's the worst movie of the year.
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Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Banshee-howlingly awful.
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
A tawdry excuse for a movie, but it has a handful of shameless giggles.
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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air.
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Nell Minow, Common Sense Media
Predictable farce isn't very funny or original.
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Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
It's bad enough watching a dreadfully unfunny really awful comedy, but watching a very racist comedy makes it all the worse...
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Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness
Complements the awfulness of its protagonists' Caucasian camouflage with putrid bathroom humor, pitiable romance and brainless racial/social commentary.
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, Empire Magazine
Odds on you know what you're in for, so if you're prepared to shell out your reddies for it, you'll find it amicable enough.
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Kevin Carr, Film Threat
Let's forget about the clunky plot and shallow characters. Let's forget about the racist undertones of the film. Bottom line, the white chicks scare me. Seriously. They're freaky looking. They are the stuff of nightmares.
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Rick Kisonak, Film Threat
Think Mean Girls rewritten by Joe Piscopo.
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Steven Snyder, Zertinet Movies
Amid an overbearing story that suffocates its humor, Chicks' increasingly repetitive and tired jokes reek of a comedy on autopilot.
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Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com
From frame one, the screen is populated with broad, unfunny caricatures and no one resembling an actual person.
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Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
... a bottom-of-the-page, jump-it-deep-inside meaningless movie review written by a dog
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Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena
Quem disse aos irmãos Wayans que eles são engraçados? Provavelmente a mesma pessoa que os convenceu de que a maquiagem utilizada no filme era boa...
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Anthony Del Valle, Las Vegas Mercury
Stupid, crude, inept, illogical, and, alas, very funny.
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Stella Papamichael, BBC
Wayans takes one (unfunny) joke and runs with it far beyond the realms of plausibility to a point where even Michael Jackson would draw the line.
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Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
The Wayans brothers are gifted actors-filmmakers, so why is it that they continually make lazy, unchallenging movies?
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Matthew Turner, ViewLondon
White Girls is something of a guilty pleasure -- it's undeniably crass and stupid but it's also frequently hilarious.
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Featured Audience Ratings
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You know what you're letting yourself in for, when you pick up the film and read its title. But the responsibility for creating such a terribly poor film lies solely with the makers.
'White Chicks' stars comedian brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans, as two FBI agents, who… More
You know what you're letting yourself in for, when you pick up the film and read its title. But the responsibility for creating such a terribly poor film lies solely with the makers.
'White Chicks' stars comedian brothers Marlon and Shawn Wayans, as two FBI agents, who in order to save their jobs dress up as women on a kidnapper's list. Somehow casting a spell over everyone they meet, who all seem to suspend all of their disbelief, they fool their bosses and real life friends of the women they are impersonating and try and solve the case.
At least, that's what happens occasionally. The story jolts from one random gag to another, with no real connecting threads to actually keep the film together. This isn't helped by the gags themselves, in total one, that two black men are dressed as two white women.
Once the initial titters of the stunt have worn off, you're left with a ninety minute wander through no man's land, along with two very alarmingly scary 'white chick' costumes. The only thing the film does succeed at is pushing racist undertones to the very surface, managing to insult many, many people.
There are the odd laughable moment, although most of that is in pity for the cast and crew. However, watching such a shockingly terrible film does make you appreciate good pieces of cinema so much more. Worst film of 2004, almost definitely. Where would it sit in the worst films of all time? Very near the top. Or at least it most certainly should. A despicable piece of film-making.
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Shawn and Marlon Wayans do a swell job in attempting to adapt into the bodies of Caucasian heirs. The film presents humor and laughter just as obscene as the Bros. look! Filled with laughs from beginning to end. 4.5/5
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62% of Flixter users liked this movie.
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Very obvious and pretty awful. The Wayans bros are always funny no matter what, so they saved the film from being a complete disaster.
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Stupid and full of fart jokes, but still a worthwhile comedy that got a couple of laughs out of me. Primarily with credit to Terry Crews, who is the saving grace of this jest as the hopelessly love-struck Lattrell Spencer, who becomes hilariously infatued with one of the "white… More
Stupid and full of fart jokes, but still a worthwhile comedy that got a couple of laughs out of me. Primarily with credit to Terry Crews, who is the saving grace of this jest as the hopelessly love-struck Lattrell Spencer, who becomes hilariously infatued with one of the "white chicks". I've never seen a movie with the Wayans that I didn't enjoy, but I would have to say that this is their weakest effort yet. There's just something about them made-up as two socialite Paris Hilton-types that looks more disturbing than funny. All in all though, it's not half-bad. Just a little annoying sometimes, to the eyes and ears alike.
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Hilarious. The Wayan Brothers never fail to amuse. I don't understand how this has got such bad reviews. It's a silly comedy yes, but you can't deny that the whole of the film is hysterical throughout. A must see!
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A very bad movie, I chuckled at times but the movie has a bad plot, boring protagonists, and nothing great about it at all.
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A very silly film, but it has a few scenes that are funny or will make you smile......let's leave it at that.
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10/10/2010 (TELEVISION)
This brings it back! I remember this flick when it was new and I loved it, I just could not stop laughing. Now, it's not that funny for some reason, maybe I actually grew up but I'm still putting it in my faves for the enjoyment I recall from my… More
10/10/2010 (TELEVISION)
This brings it back! I remember this flick when it was new and I loved it, I just could not stop laughing. Now, it's not that funny for some reason, maybe I actually grew up but I'm still putting it in my faves for the enjoyment I recall from my initial experience.
It is funny all the way and although I did not laugh as hard as I did when I first watched it, I still managed to crack up. This is another flick where I think very young kids and old as people like my "Grandparents" who love the silliest stuff will burst out in laughter.
I would select this as a groupie choice especially for the boys cause we love crap like this, this strand of comedy causes us guys to roll over like animals and make lots of noise while girls look at us like we're stupid. Very funny indeed!
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This was okay. A bit funny.
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Don't get me wrong the Wayans brothers are pretty funny but I really don't rate this film and wouldn't be interested in watching it again.
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I thought it was average!
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While it does have one shining element, Terry Crews, it wasn't enough to save this horrible plot. Not only do the Wayans brothers look like deformed circus freaks, they committed almost zero energy to their roles. There was a lot of cheap loud humor, making this a complete… More
While it does have one shining element, Terry Crews, it wasn't enough to save this horrible plot. Not only do the Wayans brothers look like deformed circus freaks, they committed almost zero energy to their roles. There was a lot of cheap loud humor, making this a complete disaster.
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"Well, your mother's ass is so hairy, it looks like Don King's about to pop out and say; Only in America!"
Oh my fuckin' burning balls! A production budget of 37 million, total gross of 113 million dollars! With that ammount of cash, think of how many… More
"Well, your mother's ass is so hairy, it looks like Don King's about to pop out and say; Only in America!"
Oh my fuckin' burning balls! A production budget of 37 million, total gross of 113 million dollars! With that ammount of cash, think of how many independent movies could've been made. And think how many retards actually paid to see this? Glad I'm not one of 'em...
What a fuckin' waste of time and film. I'm sorry I wasted my time on this piece of shit.
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This is very stupid....but also very funny. And Terry Crews gotta be the coolest guy ever
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This film is an abomination to the word "comedy". It's an abomination to the word "film". In fact, I think after this review, the word abomination might object with being put in the same field. I was against this film from the start but when you're forced… More
This film is an abomination to the word "comedy". It's an abomination to the word "film". In fact, I think after this review, the word abomination might object with being put in the same field. I was against this film from the start but when you're forced to watch this film for whatever reason, as was the case here, you hope that maybe you're being a little too harsh. Not this film, oh no. This film manages to be dumber than expected.
The main problem with films of this ilk is that, as dumb as the protagonists are, you would expect the supporting cast to be the voice of reason or the people with enough intelligence to investigate these strange matters a little further. But no, if anything, the supporting cast manages to be even dumber to the point where you wonder how they can get out of bed without killing themselves accidentally.
The sad thing is that the Wayans didn't learn the lesson about taking suspension of disbelief too far and released Little Man.
I shudder to think of what's next but all I can say is this: If you are forced to see this film, whoever is forcing you owes you big time. And a pound of flesh won't do it. Anything under one bucket of their own blood won't even cover the first 30 minutes.
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