White Chicks An Embarrassment Of Comedy Riches
From Variety, on the manifold pleasures of White Chicks:
At Wednesday's Village Theater preem, Revolution partner Tom Sherak described "White Chicks" as "the first ever urban Hamptons comedy." Helmer Keenen Ivory Wayans suggested that a story with black men dressed as white women doing fart jokes "was rich with comedy," noting, "You have race, gender, and class to pull from."
We are shamed, for we mistakenly assumed that White Chicks was just about the cheap laughs derived from black guys in white-face putting on heels and causing trouble with the square Hamptons honkeys. But now that we know it's a multi-layered critique of the socioeconomic, race, and gender issues at play in moneyed summer communities, those fart jokes are really going to embarrass us with the riches of their biting complexity.
