White Chicks
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: June 23, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
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Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
13
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

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75
USA TodayMike Clark
What we get is a tweaked variation on the litany of men-disguised-as-women comedies: "Some Like It Hot" and "Tootsie," just for starters. Obviously, this sassy farce sounds recycled and certainly appears to be in the coming attraction. Yet it's also funnier than expected in ways you wouldn't expect. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
Even if it lingers a bit too long, White Chicks represents a solid accomplishment for the crowd-pleasing Wayans brothers. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
This is the kind of film that will leave many audience members groaning with laughter -- and others simply groaning. It's skit/situation comedy that exploits stereotypes with a vengeance and knows no shame in borrowing from much better movies ranging from "Some Like It Hot" to "Tootsie." Read full review
70
VarietyDavid Rooney
As lowbrow comedies go, it pretty much delivers. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderStaff (Not credited)
Doesn't make a lick of sense, and its borderline racism and sexism will offend plenty of people. But comedy is all salesmanship, and these guys sold me; their giddy nonchalance reminds me of kids competing to crack each other up at bedtime after mom has given them Pepsi with dinner. Read full review
70
Village VoiceLaura Sinagra
Harmless slapstick fun. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerDavid Hiltbrand
The first family of black comedy goes at this bawdy burlesque with a broad brush. They get their laughs, but not without a lot of unsightly spillage. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
A tawdry excuse for a movie, but it has a handful of shameless giggles. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
For a film that uses race, class and sexual stereotypes as the starting point, this is disappointingly skin deep. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The film feels long when it should be brisk, and it's bloated with stretches of hot, dead air. The racial kitsch goes nowhere. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam Lacey
White Chicks could and should be a much more mischievous movie. A half-dozen writers have managed to create a succession of thin sketches that add up to "Some Like It Warmed Over," with a touch of stink. Read full review
50
New York PostMegan Lehmann
They resort too often to infantile flatulence jokes and fairly obvious gags about errant G-strings, with the anorexic plot culminating in the brothers having - yawn - learned to respect women's feelings. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
In White Chicks, the gross-out humor is minimal, no character comes off too badly and lessons are learned. Oh Wayanses, where are thy teeth? Read full review
50
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
When Crews is onscreen, White Chicks is a film that fears nothing and no one. When he's not, it's a film too tentative and soft-hearted to scale the farcical heights to which it aspires. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephen Hunter
But it's not what the Wayans brothers do, it's how they do it. They do it funny. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Wisely, the filmmakers don't try to reform the real rich-bitch divas -- some cultural icons are beyond redemption. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Stupidity has worked for the Wayans brothers in the past, but White Chicks will likely test the patience of even their most loyal fans. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The mere sight of strapping men in micro-mini skirts suffering the indignities of thong underwear, catcalls and pushy pick-up artists is good for a couple of lowbrow laughs, but they're buried pretty deep in dreck. Read full review
40
Film ThreatKevin Carr
Bottom line, the white chicks scare me. Seriously. They’re freaky looking. They are the stuff of nightmares. Read full review
40
EmpireAngie Errigo
Be warned - Damon isn't in this one. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Some film premises are so outlandish, so thinly worked out and so deep-down ridiculous that they wind up sinking the show -- and White Chicks collapses under a real doozy. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Here is a film so dreary and conventional that it took an act of the will to keep me in the theater. Read full review
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
We're bombarded by witless racial clichés, stale sexism and homophobia and enthusiastic celebrations of extreme flatulence. Read full review
38
PremiereAaron Hillis
Despite the attempts of the Academy Award-winning makeup artist behind Mrs. Doubtfire, these doubtful misfires can't pass as white or as chicks. Read full review
30
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Credibility, of course, wouldn't matter if the gags were good enough, which they are not. The film quickly falls back on the gross-out jokes that have made recent American comedies such a challenge to the digestive tract. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
The script, written by the three brothers, is ludicrous and incomprehensible, and plays cat-and-mouse games with what could have been some deeply funny comments on race, wealth, and, in one inspired changing-room scene, eating disorders. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Laugh? I thought I'd never start. Read full review
25
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Like its eponymous subject, it succeeds only in being shallow and crass and not very much fun to be around. Read full review
25
Portland OregonianMarc Mohan
Worthless, tasteless and unfunny. Read full review
20
Dallas ObserverRobert Wilonsky
Instead of satire, we're treated to diarrhea jokes, dogs dangled from the windows of speeding SUVs and tasteless sobriquets bestowed upon anyone who looks vaguely ethnic. Read full review
20
Film ThreatRick Kisonak
It's such a dumb movie, it's hard to believe it wasn't an SNL sketch first. Read full review
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