Memorable, crazy movie

hyped garbage

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Great premise, but they managed to muck it up. This flick was big on stereotypes; small on imagination. A lot of the humor was sophomoric and crass; indicating a not- too - mature writing staff. Some adult supervision would have greatly enhanced this predictable bore. The casting was great - all the main characters were quite capable and the movie did have its moments. Jamie Kennedy had the rap-wannabe dialect down. The movie quickly became bogged down with racial stereotyping, however: hostile blacks, lots of guns, women as sex objects. This film had lots of potential - it just needed some direction and, in the end, originality. The word "bitch" was used so frequently as it would indicate that the script writer received royalties for it. "Bitch", "bee-och"; it quickly graduated from offensive to nauseating.

I thought this might be funny going in, and Taye Diggs got a few laughs out of me, but I will never understand this whole "act black" thing. First off, I am black- I don't act like that. I speak well and I don't do hip hop and I'm not into rap. To shock you further, I'm also in my mid-twenties. However, so many people believe that all black folks are like that, and there are a lot of "posers" out there who try to act that way. It's not "acting black." It's "acting poor." Because that's how poor folks in the ghetto act, black, white, green, whoever. The trailer park folks aren't too far off, the accent's a little different and the lingo is a bit different. But riddle me this: go to the 'hood, and go to the trailer park, and write a list of things you'll see in common that have nothing to do with skin color: i.e. the Lexus outside the shotgun house vs. the Viper outside the trailer. And about the movie...well, it's kinda like hanging with Mary Jane, you lose a few brain cells, and forget the entire experience. King Kong definitely got something on this one.

... Yeah! But this one's a sure success! Treating a subject like this ain't no easy feat IMHO.A little bit of mistake and the whole thing could be turned into one of those spoiled movies that don't even sound funny.Good one here indeed hence the 10 stars I'd give it even though it ain't win no Oscars or nothing of 'em nice awards.(Hey, I sure am sounding a l'le ethnic in here ain't I?) :)This movie is a fine example of those getting into a 'mixed up' society. A place where people of various ethnicities and racial or social groups do live together and mingle too but they never add up or properly get together. Mixed identities, alienated souls, badly mistaken (if not dirty) politics, and so forth ...

Malibu's Most Wanted stars Jamie Kennedy as Bradley "B-Rad" Gluckman, prominently featured in his hidden camera show on the WB. B-Rad is a Jewish-American living the high life in Malibu, yet him and his white friends all act black and embrace hip-hop culture. B- Rad's unwanted rap performances causes problems for his father's governor campaign, so the campaign team hires two black actors to stage a kidnapping on B-Rad and attempt to "scare him black" by taking him through the SoCal hood.Kennedy performs his role very well and makes a hilarious character (He could use more work like this, not crap such as Son of the Mask), reflecting the "white suburban adolescent hiphop fan" demographic of America to a T. Anderson and Diggs play PJ and Sean, the two black Julliard actors that learn how to be "hood" in order to make their scam on B-Rad authentic. Joining them is Shandra (Hall) who actually lives in Compton (I think, w/e, some LA hood), who lets them stay in her house for the weekend.One of the funniest things in the film is the stark contrast between B-Rad and Sean & PJ, as B-Rad thinks he's black despite being white, whereas Sean and PJ are black but act very "white", i.e. proper grammar, nice clothes, expensive schooling, etc. Watching Sean and PJ perfect their gangsta personas is quite funny.I won't go any deeper into the characters and their actors, I will say that they all did a good job though. One thing that bothered me though was why Shandra got with B-Rad, it makes hardly any sense...it was bad romance on the writer's part. Other than that it flows decently plot-wise. This isn't a drama though, it's a comedy, so humor is where it matters. This movie was very funny, I was laughing out loud the entire first half. It's got a bunch of great scenes, and one-liners ("Heads or tails?" "Tizizails! .......I want tails, please.") I didn't feel the second half was too strong, as they spent too much time trying to wrap the plot up, not enough time on humor, but all in all it was still pretty funny. The only thing I thought was really stupid was the talking rat? What the hey? Were they just trying to get a part for Snoop Dogg to play?All in all, it's worth watching, and I'd watch it again. To appreciate the humor, one has to be familiar with white kids posing as blacks and some hip-hop culture, which might account for some of the lower ratings I've seen on here.