WhiteBoyz

Starring:Danny Hoch, Dash Mihok, Mark Webber (II), Piper Perabo, Eugene Byrd, Bonz Malone, Dr. Dre, Rich Komenich, Annabel Armour, Lisa Jane Todd, Brooke Byam, Diane Rinehart, Mark Swanson (II), Rick Snyder, Jacqueline Williams (II), Reno Wilson, Fat Joe, Dead Prez, Mic Geronimo, Slick Rick
Director: Marc Levin
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Product Type: DVD

Description

Welcome to Iowa, where the corn grows tall, the kids hang at the mall and homegrown white boy Flip Dogg rapps, "Whassup with that?" Flip's struggle to keep it real in his boring Midwestern 'hood ultimately takes him and his crew on a road trip to the projects of Chicago, where he discovers it ain't all good when he disses some real-life gangstas! This fresh, in-your-face comedy features some of today's hottest rap artists, including Snoop Dogg, Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick.

Customer Reviews:

Please enter a title for your review.......2007-06-29

You could fault Jamie Kennedy for his wannabe gangsta character being too derivitive of this movie, but someone had to make this funny, and the original doesn't cut it. The stagnant characters are fully established in the first 15 minutes, after that all that's left to possibly engage you is the jokeless slow-moving plot. Most scenes flow like humourless improv, as though the actors are perpeutally trying to establish their characters. How old was Flip supposed to be anyway? A teenager? He looks 30. Since this movie so rarely attempts comedy, or goes beyond the one-note whitey-wants-to-be-black joke which is the same in every scene, it would make more sense to evaluate it as a drama based on plot, which it doesn't have much of, but still has more of it than it does laughs. On the other hand maybe you want to take it seriously as satire, but for that purpose the movie also wears out it's welcome after the first 15 minutes, redundantly retreading the same ground. Bottom line: it just isn't funny. Didn't make me laugh or even smile once.

White boys.......2006-03-20

Funny movie, could be misinterpreted but if your open minded it is very very funny.

I'm surprised so many people liked this movie.......2006-03-19

I was actually embarassed when I finally saw this movie at home with my family. Everyone has already captured the essence of the movie - white farm boys looking to make it big in the world of rapping. This movie was filmed in and around my home town and I was an extra for a few scenes, which I was totally excited about at the time, but then the embarassment snuck in after I finally got the opportunity to watch it. It really is SO satirical and both very close and very far from the truth of the average midwest upbringing. For the most part, I just found it very humorous after watching it a couple times and discussing it with other friends.
So, I've listed a couple of the things that I found pretty funny...Their only black friend seems to be the exact opposite of what they wanted out of the black rapper experience. The girlfriend (Piper Perabo) goes from being the gangsta's girlfriend in this movie to being a hot bartender in Coyote Ugly. I heard more of an East coast accent out of most of the characters, rather than the usually unnoticable midwestern accent. I really loved the birthmark scene - just made me laugh again!
It's just one of those movies you gotta watch more than once (if you can get through it the first time).

Hometown Homies.......2005-09-16

This movie is an excellent take on the ignorance of white farm kids who want to be black, wanna be thugs, and gangsta rappers. As an indie flick, the film lacks some of the sharpness one might expect but here it works in the film's favor. There is a sense of reality there, Flip just doesn't live in that reality. He wears an Iowa Hawkeye, Tim Dwight's in fact, football jersey, lives on a farm in Iowa, and is totally attracted to the bling and light of the rap game. As ridiculous as this seems to those outside of the midwest, this is more common than one might think.

I'm from Iowa, and in fact, this film was shot on location in and around my hometown of Davenport, Iowa, and the Quad Cities. I knew people like Flip and their struggle for acceptance and identity. Quite a few of my friends were in the film as minor characters and extras, and my ex-mayor was the curly headed police officer. There are lots of external shots of the Quad City area, Davenport's riverfront, Muscatine, and a shot of a close friend's award winning grafitti in Davenport that was in the Cabrini Green sequence (Nelly posed in front of a mural he did in a St. Louis graf competition for his first album and is on the inner sleeve). The reality is that Flip's farm neighborhood is on the outskirts of the Davenport area, which is one of the largest cities in Iowa and has it's own urban culture, like many smaller cities in America.

Being from there brings this film in perspective as a search for culture and acceptance. As a teacher and coach, and an ex-Iowan, I knew people who yearned for something new while others went along with this type of charade until they realized how ridiculous it is to act black. The funny moments are endless though, the horrible raps, the "representin'", the outfits, and the dream sequences and cameos. This is a movie that seems to grow on you with a ridiculous but somewhat serious message behind it all. I mean Snoop, Slick Rick, and Doug E. Fresh make appearances! Show this one to the people who you might know that fake the funk.

Nice And Funny.......2005-07-21

Who doesnt love seeing rednecks act up? Well in this film three white boys out of Iowa go a little over the top , what kinda gangsta disciple crew drives a f350? lol The movie is great and I highly recommend it . Although the white kid cant rap, its entertaining, check it out

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