Fresh and Exciting

Absolutely Fantastic

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Brad 'B-Rad' Gluckman (Jamie Kennedy) and his crew are gangster wannabes from the hood of Malibu, California. His father Bill (Ryan O'Neal) is running for governor. Bess (Bo Derek) is his mother. He wants to join the political campaign but the political team hates the idea and he keeps screwing up. Tom Gibbsons (Blair Underwood) and his team come up with an idea to scare Brad straight by having amateur actors Sean James (Taye Diggs) and PJ (Anthony Anderson) kidnap him. The two white-bread actors recruit PJ's cousin Shondra (Regina Hall).This is a perfectly fine idea for spoof. I really like Anthony Anderson and Taye Diggs isn't that bad. They're almost funny trying to act black. The drawback is Jamie Kennedy. He's trying too hard to spoof the idea. It would work better if he committed to be serious. He seems to be doing it with a wink and a smile. It actually takes away from the comedic potential. He should be clueless, not act clueless.

Imagine watching a movie parodying the "hood" made by people who have never been to, met anyone from, or had any contact with the hood. That is this movie. I'm not just talking about Jamie Kennedy's character, who is supposed to be fake, I'm talking about the whole d**n thing. It was difficult to distinguish the actors who were supposed to be actors and the actors who were supposed to be "real gangstas", because all of the acting in this movie sucks. The first time I watched this movie I thought it was hilarious but the second time it just really rubbed me the wrong way... I don't know, maybe this just isn't my type of humor. The only reason I gave this three stars was because of the fight scenes, especially the Scarface-looking one where he was on the car screaming "AHHHHHAHAHAHAHA" like a nut... the one with all the gang members in the house facing that crew of Malibu people holding a f*****g whale harpoon and a rocket launcher was the only funny part of the movie IMO.

FIrst things first I had no idea that this was a PG-13 rated movie, I saw the first few minutes of this movie on TV and decided to rent the movie on the basis of the hilarious scene about the campaign posters.Surely a movie with words such as Bitch and Whore would have a R-rating and would mean much more bolder jokes and hot maybe nude women right.But I had underestimated the absurdity of the American Rating system and I ended up seeing a movie with a PG-13 rating, a rating that I always try and avoid.Anyway i scaled down my expectations accordingly and sat back and enjoyed the ride.Luckily the movie dwelled on stereotypes that despite what people say lead to some of the funniest jokes, seeing black, Asian, white and political stereotypes is going to funny on screen no matter what you say.The jokes were hilarious throughout and despite the fact that I seriously thought they would become stale after a while there was always some wacky, juvenile joke around the corner to get me laughing again.The movie has some hilarious scenes such as the Kidnap Scene, the store robbery scene, the shout out etc. In fact when you think about it even though you may fall out of your seat laughing in any scene (they normally require buildups which are rare in modern comedies) you are either laughing or smiling in this film.The humour in this movie is immature,stereotypical, and slapstick and if you like your comedy subtle and intelligent than please save yourself the effort of watching this movie and dissing it after-wards.This movie does try to be something more towards the end but then which comedy doesn't.The acting is superb especially from the main 3 characters, with James Kennedy obviously stealing the show as the hilarious "Wigger", but take nothing away from Taye Diggs and Anthony Anderson who did a splendid job as theatre actors who get nothing but roles as black stereotypes. The rest of the cast were playing those said stereotypes and didn't display any special talent except Kal Penn who was hilarious.Direction and other technical aspects are not important and not worth mentioning.The chicks are ugly and the garish display of man-abs on some of the women really put me off.There are no hot girls in this movie.The soundtrack is OK and adds the the feel of the movie.The few bad things are :- 1)That there are stretches that evoke nothing more than a chuckle and you crave for a distraction like some hot girls or a buildup to a big scene that is not there.2)PG-13 means that a bunch of jokes lose their impact for fear of treading on racist jokes territory and lead to more smiles and less laughs.3)People with the wrong company or with larger attention spans will eventually Overdose on the jokes and cease to find the movie funny after a while.These point especially the last one may have a serious bearing on how you feel when the movie ends.Please don't take this movie seriously it comes from a heritage of stand-up.All in all a good movie thats good for a bunch of laughs with like minded friends.Those who like intelligent subtle humour should avoid.-s no hot chicks, long stretches of chuckles,PG-13, high chance of Overdose.+/-s stereotypes (i love them)\, lots of chuckles.+s superb acting, lots of genuinely funny scenes, fresh film.total 7/10 (factoring in lowered expectations if you split his movie in clips it would make 3 great episodes of a comedy program clearly showing its stand-up heritage the whole package has a lesser impact though).

I thought the movie was very good. I would like to get a photo and /or a video that shows the black woman getting a piggyback ride from a blond woman. the black woman with sunglases was very foxy. In a ad from the time warner rent a movie from their cable entity they that black fox on the back of a cute blond I would like to know their names and how I can get a picture and /or a video of that sequence. The movie was very funny and all the actors played their parts very well, The premise of the movie was very good . Kennedy reminded me of a Eminen type. The women were all very sexy. The scenes all done very well. I would recommend and have done so to people I know to purchase the video.