White Chicks English Movie
The films by the Wayans brothers are all about wacky way-out humour and risqué situations. If you've seen them do the two "Scary Movies", you'd know they mean boorish business. You certainly don't go to one of their films expecting anything but cheese and sleaze.
"Hot Chicks" is no different. The screenplay comprises a series of off-colour episodes all written to pump up the Wayans brothers masquerade as 'white chicks'. This title given to two Black Americans dressed as a couple of rich dumb blondes might offend many.
And while insulting women by giving them a cheesy poultry (chick) status, the film also takes time off to use the offensive 'n' word for black people.
This film spares none. It's the ultimate renegade chick flick where the two heroes whoop it up in drag. Its microscopic mirth value is telescoped into jokes that subsume a whole culture in a limbo.
There's a big black bodybuilding sportsperson who wants to woo white upper class crowds. When his romantic interest is discovered to be a woman, he's more outraged by the skin colour than the gender.
The gender and class differences afford the narration a huge opportunity to mock the whole myth about cross-cultural balances created in cosmopolitan cultures.
In "White Chicks" everyone is at loggerheads with his or her identity. The characters lead dual lives in one way or another. However, their search for an identity is strictly basic.
And you can't get any more basic than this. The performances are gloriously broad and in sync with the risqué aura. The Wayans brothers are a hoot. Their drag-act never drags. They're out to create laughter and they pull out all the stops in doing so.
The squeamish can stay away. And those looking for subtle intellectual jokes should watch the next Woody Allen flick. "White Chicks" gives us the ultimate ride into retrograde raunchiness.
