(Herald rating * )
Brothers are doing it for each other. Keenan Ivory Wayans directs his siblings Marlon and Shawn as Marcus and Kevin Copeland, FBI agents and — betcha didn't see this one coming — brothers.
They're fired when they muck up a drug bust but given one last chance. They have to babysit Tiffany and Brittany Wilson (Anne Dudek and Maitland Ward), white-bread heiresses who might be the targets of a kidnap plot and seem barely disguised caricatures of Paris and Nicole.
When the girls get tiny cuts in a car crash and beg off a big party, Marcus and Kevin decide to pass themselves off as the sisters.
The plot needs some bounce, which is provided through a sub-plot in which a pro basketballer (played by a pro basketballer, Terry Crews) is top bidder at a charity auction for Marcus, which provides the opportunity for an apparently unending repertoire of fart jokes.
Perhaps there is some deep, satirical element in the black mens' portrayal of the 00's white female as supremely interested in shopping, makeup and checking out the cute guys. If so, it passed me by.
Those who make it past the movie — sorry, the "the unedited version of the movie" — will be rewarded with six minutes of extra footage, commentary by the three brothers, and three once-over-lightly features: How'd They Do That? (makeup hints); A Wayans Comedy (which brother did what) and Encore On the Set (a rehash of the first two).
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