Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Senteur As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Andrew Towne This movie does a good job of developing character types and playing them off against each other.First, there is the ironic humor implicit in a white boy thinking that his rich white beach town is "the hood" and that he is one of the "oppressed people." At one point, he asks his black governess if she thinks that "our people" will ever be treated right. Eventually we find out that this white boy was literally raised by his black governess because his parents -- who are important and busy people -- were never around.He listened to and loved her music, got her perspective on life, picked up her accent, etc. He fell in love with rap music as a little kid, and his goal in life is to be a big-time rapper.So the notion of a white boy acting black is not as preposterous as it seems.One aspect of this movie that I found brilliant was the way the writers also incorporated the opposite situation of blacks "acting white." Specifically, two black character actors -- one who attended Juilliard, the other who launched his career at the Pasadena Playhouse, are hired by the boy's father to "scare the boy white." At first, we see these actors in an ad for the father's gubernatorial campaign arguing and pushing each other on a basketball court, and they do seem very tough.But when we meet them in person, they don't really have a clue about the ghetto or how to act like gangsters.When they stage a kidnapping of the white boy and take him to the house of one of their girlfriends who lives in the ghetto, they quickly realize that they are in over their heads.Then some real gang bangers come along and (in another ironic juxtaposition) the hardest core gangster in a guns-blazing showdown turns out to be the poser white boy, whose shooting escapade (no one is killed or injured) is captured on video by reporters and televised on the evening news.Naturally, the boy's father sees this and is mortified -- what will become of his run for the governorship now? Anyway, congratulations to the writers of this movie for a job well done.And congratulations to Jamie Kennedy for his excellent acting and comedic skills.

lastliberal John Leguizamo may want us to forget that he made Night Owl. Denise Richards would probably like to buy up and burn all copies of Tammy and the T-Rex, and Demi Moore would probably vehemently deny ever making Parasit. I just wonder how many stars in this film would want us to forget that they were in it.Of course, I only watched it to see Christa Campbell in her small part, but there were some favorites in there also like Taye Diggs (Rent, Equilibrium), Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle), and Anthony Anderson (Cradle 2 the Grave, Romeo Must Die).To see any of these, I had to suffer through the most ridiculous film that I can imagine. I'm sorry, but it was just painful. It wasn't funny, and I will never intentionally watch anything with Jamie Kennedy again. He goes on my list of Most Hated People in Film.

purplex123 After watching this movie, I can watch again and its is still funny, I recommended it to my m8s and they love it too, hell they wanted to watch it again. Although Swardson could of had a bigger role but it all good mix, of humour and 8 mile,Terry Crews role was just hilarious, he can always make me laugh :O when is he gonna be a lead in a comedy???I love Kennedy work,I don't know about his song maybe he Should that go and keep making comedy films.Every character is great in this Most enjoyable. And Even people who are down with it. Love it!!! 8/10 "my uncle gave it to me for my birthday" you will laugh when you hear this quote occurs in the movie. Cant wait for 'Kickin it old Skool'.

bionic7773333 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.