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Cast
- Marlon WayansDarryl Witherspoon
- David SpadeScott Thorpe
- Matthew LillardTim LaFlour
- Rip TornRandall Tyson
- Tamara TaylorJanice Tyson
- Brad DourifDr. Thomas Wheedon
- Esther ScottDenise Witherspoon
- Debra Jo RuppFertility Clinic Attendant
- Mark Christopher LawrenceWig Shop Owner
- John IngleEconomics Professor
Recommendations
- 90
Los Angeles Times
It's a laff riot that also contains a torrent of scathing social satire that couldn't be more timely in light of the dismantling of affirmative action. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
This is not great comedy, and Wayans doesn't find ways to build and improvise, as Carrey does. - 60
The New York Times
The gags, like the plotting, have a giddy edge that can be sharp, but just as often they go nowhere. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
It's made by a director who knows comedy, working from a script founded on a surefire slapstick premise. - 50
Chicago Reader
Big laughs are few and far between in this 1998 movie, which is more successful as motivational anecdote than as comedy. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
Her setups here are so witless and pedestrian that there's no imagination to the crude slapstick punchlines; we're just watching a bland jester pantomime sensory overload. - 40
L.A. Weekly
If you can be satisfied with only Wayans' Tourette's syndrome bit, or his perfect timing in the scene where he just kisses a girl and creams his pants, you'll go home happy. - 25
Christian Science Monitor
It seems to have had the opposite effect on the director's taste, as she strives for new levels of raunchiness.
