... Yeah! But this one's a sure success! Treating a subject like this ain't no easy feat IMHO.

A little bit of mistake and the whole thing could be turned into one of those spoiled movies that don't even sound funny.

Good one here indeed hence the 10 stars I'd give it even though it ain't win no Oscars or nothing of 'em nice awards.

(Hey, I sure am sounding a l'le ethnic in here ain't I?) :)

This movie is a fine example of those getting into a 'mixed up' society. A place where people of various ethnicities and racial or social groups do live together and mingle too but they never add up or properly get together. Mixed identities, alienated souls, badly mistaken (if not dirty) politics, and so forth ...

Brad Gluckman (Jamie Kennedy) is white, but grew up listening to Run-DMC and Public Enemy. He thinks that the hood is just an image, and he protects the streets of Malibu. When his father is running for office, Brad must be taken out of the picture, so a group of actors is hired to take him to the ghetto and scare him. Things, of course, go bad when real gang members show up.

I was asked to watch this film after making positive remarks about "Kickin It Old Skool" (see that review). The person who asked me felt I was too kind to that film and that this one ("Malibu's Most Wanted") was the superior film. So I watched it. And I have to say, this movie really was not nearly as good. It is funny but not that funny.

What plagues this film for me is the idea of mocking black urban culture. I do not happen to really identify with black culture or the films associated with it. "Friday" and "Boyz in the Hood" may be good movies, but I just cannot really get into them like other people can. This film is a cross between those movies and Jamie Kennedy being white and acting black -- poorly. His talking, rapping and other actions just got on my nerves. They were funny at first but got old fast. The black actors trying to act black (Anthony Anderson and Taye Diggs) were funny, though... maybe it takes blacks to satire black culture (like "Don't be a Menace", which is very funny).

There were many cameos, but again primarily from those films I do not really enjoy. Christa Campbell appeared as an angry feminist, which is particularly funny if you are aware of her history as a model, Playboy playmate and regular guest star in a variety of horror films (often topless). She is anything but a feminist in the traditional sense.

So, yeah, I liked this movie and enjoyed watching it. But unless you enjoy seeing white kids rapping poorly or Snoop Dogg doing the voice of a ghetto rat (very briefly) this film is forgettable and not worth owning or even a second viewing. Good, but nothing special.

A rich senator(Ryan O'Neal) and pending election and his wife(Bo Derek) manage for his son(Jamie Kennedy) to be abducted by a pair of actors with no job(Taye Diggs and Anthony Anderson) pretending to flop his scheme to become himself in famous rapper.Meanwhile he falls in love a beautiful young girl(Regina Hall).

The film is a bemused comedy providing solid,silly laugh which results to be a Jamie Kennedy recital.The picture relies heavily on the continuous humorous acting starring but it doesn't make bored but entertained .Relief comic is essentially at charge of Jamie Kennedy,besides the bad taste language and profanities but his foul and fast talking creates most big smiles and causing misfortune,bad luck and wreak-havoc on the way .The humor is sometimes absurd and cheese but gets its moments here and there from start to finish.Taye Diggs and Anthony Anderson as the stupidest kidnappers make a first rate couple. Appear known secondaries actors as Blair Underwood,Jeffrey Tambor,Damian Wayans(Wayans'family) and Bo Derek in a brief intervention, plus of famed rappers as Snoop Doggs. The picture is regularly directed by John Whitesell. It's an agreeable film for the rapper youth who will enjoy enormously with lots of fun. Rating : Average but amused.