Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

MartinHafer This is a film that might have worked had it been a 10 or 20 minute short. In addition, the film did have a few pleasant or funny moments...but nearly enough to fill 83 minutes. So, instead of being funny or interesting, the overall package is just kind of stupid...and drags for what seems like forever.A rich Jewish tycoon (Richard Benjamin) owns a rap label whose music is on the edge of good taste and an opportunistic Senator takes advantage of this and persecutes him to garner favor with the voters. This idea was very interesting and timely....back in 1985 when Al Gore's wife championed the cause and pushed for Congressional hearings about all the smut in the music industry. Now in the much more permissive 21st century, the main story idea just seems passé--and about 15 years too late.Lisa Kudrow plays Benjamin's daughter. When he suffers a heart attack as a result of the hubbub over the record company, Kudrow tries to do damage control to soften the image of the worst of their rappers, Dr. S (Damon Wayans). And, in this bizarre melding of the worlds of a Jewish American Princess and a Hard-core rapper, the two somehow find love--though who knows why?!Frankly this takes the "fish out of water" concept too far. Part of the problem is that the Black rappers, despite often saying "make it real" seem like a caricature of the hip-hop culture. They are walking stereotypes--horny men who have a thing for White women. And the White women are all repressed and would die if they could only have a Black love machine! None of this and the White community's reaction to them makes sense or seems realistic in the least--and looks really lame by the time the picture is complete--and quite offensive. It's sad, as there were a few good moments and the basic idea wasn't that bad. Kudrow's first rap song is totally stupid because it came too easy, but the words were cute and I liked it. Also, I loved Wayans' song at the MTV Music Awards show--it was great for shock value. But apart from that, the entire film was a long-winded and ridiculous mess--amazingly uneven, crude (but not usually in a funny way) and broad--very, very broad in its humor--such as the clichéd son of the uptight Senator--he, of course, is gay. Why? Well, because this is what cheap and broad writing requires--not a real honest-to-goodness character--just caricatures. The actors seem to try hard but given the material, it's no wonder the film bombed---though I think it's current ranking of #97 on IMDb's Bottom 100 List seems a bit overboard--it's not THAT bad....but it's bad...there's no denying that. In particular, the last 15 minutes of the film are horribly unfunny and stupid...and, believe it or not, a bit of a ripoff of "Animal House" with it's little unfunny epilogue. Painful to sit through--it's amazing that a man like Richard Benjamin could have directed and starred in this dreck. As for Kudrow and Wayans, they are in their element.

elshikh4 This is so nice comedy. Few times when I watch a movie and feel so good about it to the extent that I wish, while watching, that it keeps itself the way it is till the end. This time this high feel it gives kept present but maybe not to the very end.I wasn't satisfied with the climax at the court; being very short, unconvincing, and not that hilarious. In fact the third act of the movie was nothing but recycling all the possible uses of "in the butt" as a song, a joke, whatever.. endlessly! But. There are so many good points in here. (Damon Wayans) looks great as Dr. S, parodying so many pop icons (did you notice the voice of Snoop Dogg ?). (Lisa Kudrow), the real comic talent out of Friends' cast, is nearly playing her character from that TV show, but it worked finely. Unlike many blind reviews, there was some chemistry between the 2 leads, I hated every scene that didn't have them both. The rest of the characters were so funny, cartoonish and satiric (the 3 girl friends, the Boys R Us boy band, the jail's rap producers, the Latino young Diva,..).And when it comes to the songs then we're talking about the most brilliant element. The song's lyrics were extremely smart, enjoyable and will live long indeed. This could've been so memorable musical. Or maybe it is yet in spoofing sort of way. (The Power in Purse) or the 2 different versions of the Boys R Us' song,..etc. I don't run into this bright spirit much. The dialog wasn't less good. The droll lines are many (..It was his birthday !!). Plus, there is a scene where Dr. S asks his love about something she doesn't tell to anybody as secret she'd expose to the dearest one, like her weight, and when she refuses he convinces her that she can tell him only because one clear reason: he's the one who doesn't care. This is a very delicate dialog people. Rarely when we hear anything like it in any comic movie, or rather a movie, nowadays!What I really love about this movie is its way of dealing with its subject. It exploits the modern pop scene to produce laughs. And its cleverness wasn't in the way of producing laughs out of it inasmuch as being neutral. It'll find viewers who love the "butt" thing, and others who hate it, and you know what ? It is capable of satisfying both! It wouldn't analyze why the rap songs are so lewd and violent, or is it the white foundation, or the black one, that wants and invests that, because it just lampoons everybody.I don't know about being in the IMDb's 100 bottom movies ?!!!! It's shameful, and I do mean the IMDb's reviewers and their taste ! Maybe it's a war between companies and they hired hundreds of people to curse it everywhere!! It sure doesn't hit high as (It's Mad Mad Mad World), or hit lower like (Dude, Where's My Car). It's something in between. Well, something good as a light romantic comedy, with a lot to show as well about a culture that loves to be in the butt of all things. However that doesn't apply to the movie itself! Finally, I don't know at all how in god's name the producers wanted (Chris Rock) in the role of (Dr. S) ??!! He's totally unfunny and so unsexy (so how to handle a scene where he dazzles the women only by his sexual charisma ?!). Aside from that, this unbearable comedian said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly "It's the worst script I've ever gotten... I'd have been happier getting an envelope full of anthrax." ..Well, I'd have been happier myself!

heavy metal is the law That was my question after seeing like 20 minutes of Marci X.I don'tknow what you Americans are thinking, but if this is a portray of your mainstream pop culture, you are really f*cked up. I don't have anything against you people, but PLEASE!, stop bombarding us with these God-awful stinkers such as: Date Movie, Soul Plane, Adam Sandler's romantic "comedies",From Justin to Kelly and so on.What can I say about Marci x that hasn't been stated. Well, it disgusted me. It disgusted me the way in which people are stereotyped (white, black,latinos). C'mon, not every black people in U.S.A is a rapper or a criminal and not every white people is wealthy and conservative. The comedy in this film also disgusted me: not a single funny part!. This is way too much, taking into account that Damon Wayans has proved himself to be a good comedian. On the other hand, Phoebe stinks as usual.To sum up, Marci X is a disgusting Hollywood piece of s*it, which creates a racist decadent good-for-nothing version of American pop culture.Yo! American people,if you keep doing movies like Marci x, the world would find it easier to keep hating you.

Spike Spiegel When I saw this movie 3 years ago I was surprised at how awful it really was. I mean why the hell would you make this movie into a musical when none of the actors in it can sing? I thought this movie would be about Lisa Kudrow trying to act black, which would have been funny since she is the whitest girl I have ever seen, but the director decided not to go that route, like the title entails, and decided to make it into a romance musical which had a total of ONE funny moment. When Wayne's character starts singing "I wanna love you IN THE BUTT, IN THE BUTT, IN THE BUTT!!!" and all the backup singers had red targets painted on their rear ends. Thats about the only funny part of the movie, and you only laugh for a few seconds. Anyone who rated this movie a 10 either is a HUGE Waynes brother fan, or they love the smooth, sensual voice of Lisa Kudrow when she sings (FUBAR!)