White Chicks Details

In this terminally lowbrow comedy from the director of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, real-life siblings Marlon and Shawn Wayans play FBI agents and black brothers Marcus and Kevin Copeland. To save their jobs after messing up a drugs bust, the dim-witted duo are forced to don latex masks, flesh-tight miniskirts and receive a full-body blanching in order to impersonate and protect a pair of spoilt, brattish socialites who bear more than a passing resemblance to Paris and Nikki Hilton. The central inter-racial, cross-dressing idea might have provided a clever engine for risk-taking humour, but this one isn't even mildy amusing. Neutered and trite, White Chicks falls back on stale gags such as having a man become besotted with one of the “sisters”, a schtick that worked in the classic Some Like It Hot but seems a serious failure of imagination on the part of the film's six… count 'em, six… writers. Even the movie's flatulence jokes fall flat, and that takes some doing.

A cross-dressing comedy about crooks that is a long way from what Billy Wilder managed with similar material; this is more Some Like It Dumb and Dumber.