Release Date:
Friday, April 18, 2003
Brad “B-Rad” Gluckman is a troubled soul. He may dress funny (and talk funny, and, we can only assume, smell funny), but if you look past all of those wrist bands, platinum pieces, and white skin, you’ll see…well, Jamie Kennedy, a man capable of forcing a short sketch on a WB hidden-camera show into a full-length motion picture. And that’s fo’ shizzle. (See? We’re down…)
When B-Rad threatens to cost his father valuable votes in the next race for governor of California with his wiggedy wack antics, Pa Dukes arranges to have his son kidnapped by actors posing as gang-bangers (Taye Diggs and Anthony Anderson) to “scare the black out of him.” But no matter how far these mark-ass bustas push this cracker, he doesn’t budge—the Malibu streets having made him a hard-boiled gangsta…or something like that. Kennedy’s white rapper tries his best to keep the funny phresh—just be warned, your tolerance for his tomfoolery will be pivotal in determining how much of this stoopid fun you can enjoy. Either way, brainless entertainment is only that if it avoids being swallowed up by a melodramatic finale, and Malibu’s Most Wanted nobly sidesteps that pratfall. So remember, regardless of race, the diameter of your rims, or how many times you can use “izzle” in a sentence, we’re all the same. Word to your respective mothers.
When B-Rad threatens to cost his father valuable votes in the next race for governor of California with his wiggedy wack antics, Pa Dukes arranges to have his son kidnapped by actors posing as gang-bangers (Taye Diggs and Anthony Anderson) to “scare the black out of him.” But no matter how far these mark-ass bustas push this cracker, he doesn’t budge—the Malibu streets having made him a hard-boiled gangsta…or something like that. Kennedy’s white rapper tries his best to keep the funny phresh—just be warned, your tolerance for his tomfoolery will be pivotal in determining how much of this stoopid fun you can enjoy. Either way, brainless entertainment is only that if it avoids being swallowed up by a melodramatic finale, and Malibu’s Most Wanted nobly sidesteps that pratfall. So remember, regardless of race, the diameter of your rims, or how many times you can use “izzle” in a sentence, we’re all the same. Word to your respective mothers.