Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socialites to the Hamptons--but when the girls are disfigured in a car accident, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from black men into rich European-American women.
White Chicks is a broad, lowbrow comedy that leans heavily on its absurdist central premise — two Black FBI agents in unconvincing white-woman prosthetics infiltrating Hamptons socialite circles. The plot is formulaic buddy-cop fare with predictable beats and a weak climax. Acting is a mixed bag; the Wayans brothers commit fully to their physical comedy and carry the film on sheer energy, earning it a slight bump. Cinematography is workmanlike with no visual ambition. Novelty gets a modest lift because the sheer audacity and specificity of the Wayans' comedic voice and the film's unapologetic excess give it a distinctive cult identity, though it's not genuinely inventive filmmaking. The ending wraps up too neatly and without much payoff.