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1* CriticalDissonance: The Critic Score on Rotten Tomatoes is a lowly 15% vs an audience score of 55%.
2* CultClassic: Despite its abysmal reviews, audiences were a bit kinder to it, and over the years, it's become fairly popular among African-American viewers, who enjoy how much it lampoons the stereotypes surrounding both white and black people (Creator/TerryCrews being in it also helps).
3* EnsembleDarkhorse: Latrell. A bombastic-yet-highbrow fuckboy obsessed with white women who has a smaller black guy as his personal sidekick, keeps risque pictures of himself and enjoys music made for teenage girls.
4* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The movie has a major cult following in Latin American countries.
5* HamAndCheese: Creator/TerryCrews knows exactly what kind of movie he's in, and plays Latrell with as much ham as humanly possible.
6* HarsherInHindsight: In the movie, Terry Crews plays Latrell Spencer, who pursues Tiffany, actually Marcus in disguise, in an [[StalkerWithACrush incredibly aggressive manner,]] and even tries to [[SlippingAMickey give him a spiked drink.]] In 2018, Crews testified in congress about the problem of rampant sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, [[https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/terry-crews-adam-venit-wme-1202858087/ after he alleged that a drunk talent agent fondled him years earlier, and he was forced to keep the whole thing quiet.]]
7* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments:
8** Kevin and Marcus didn't have to participate in the dance battle to maintain their cover. They just did that out of genuine friendship for Karen, Lisa and Tori.
9** The last moments of the movie. The brothers make ''terrible'' white chicks - but excellent friends.
10* HollywoodPudgy: In-universe, PlayedForLaughs. While clothes-shopping, Lisa ends up in sobbing hysterics over her "back fat," "huge ba-donkey" and "Tina the Talking Tummy." Lisa is played by the rather slim Jennifer Carpenter. Kevin's horrified reaction is absolutely priceless.
11* HoYay: Latrell and Marcus-Tiffany. Esp. in TheReveal.
12* MemeticMutation:
13** Even people who haven't seen this movie are more than aware of the scene with Latrell singing "A Thousand Miles" by Music/VanessaCarlton, complete with the head movements and all.
14** Also, Latrell's reaction when he discovers who 'Tiffany' really is: "Oh, the deception, the betrayal, man!" ''Specially'' in Latin American countries.
15** "Where's Latrell!?" "On the dance floor" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Latrell dancing in the club while high became a viral sound on [=TikTok=].[[/labelnote]]
16** "She's gonna have a bitch fit!"
17** Everyone say it with me... "AYO, HOLD MY POODLE!"
18* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite being lambasted by critics for its perceived racism against black and Latino people, the film has generated a [[CultClassic cult following]] among those very groups, who find it hilarious, whether ironically or not.
19* MisaimedFandom: The film is frequently brought up by blackface apologists as a supposed double-standard whenever progressively-minded people talk about how inappropriate whitewashing is. This is ignoring the fact that the plot is specifically ''about'' two black men masquerading as white people, it's played for laughs and the women they're impersonating do in fact show up at various points. Meanwhile, most examples of white people playing non-white people are done in real life and are usually expected to be taken seriously, even if it's in a comedy.
20* RetroactiveRecognition: Astute viewers will recognize [[Series/{{Dexter}} Debra Morgan]] as Lisa and [[Series/{{House}} Amber "Cutthroat Bitch" Volakis]] as Tiffany Wilson. For some, it'll be Creator/TerryCrews from ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'', ''Film/TheExpendables'' or ''Film/{{Idiocracy}}''.
21* TheScrappy: Gina, due to her self-righteous and egotistical behaviour towards Marcus. Even her friend is more of a HateSink for trying to encourage it.
22* SignatureScene: As noted above, many who haven’t even ''seen'' the movie know of the infamous scene of Latrell singing along to “A Thousand Miles”, due to Terry Crews’ [[ChewingTheScenery over-the-top]] acting and the pure hilarity of it all.
23* SoBadItsGood: The movie is sexist, tasteless and just a wee bit racist... all of which combine to make it a hilarious spectacle of badness.
24* {{Squick}}:
25** At one point Marcus has a pair of fake breasts (which were disturbingly lifelike aside from their plastic sheen) applied to his chest. When he touches them, his disgusted reaction likely matches up with the audience.
26** The two cops who raid the brothers' rooms, with one of them finding a pair of girl's panties and deciding to do creepy stalker stuff with them.
27* WTHCostumingDepartment: Most viewers had a hard time forgiving the extremely plastic-looking makeup effects on the detectives, which made Barbie dolls look more expressive by comparison.
28* WhyWouldAnyoneTakeHerBack: Gina spends an entire movie thinking Marcus is cheating on her despite the fact that he is an FBI agent who has to be on the job 24/7 and keeps on acting like [[TautologicalTemplar she is right all the time]] and keeps on meddling in his plans. But after all is cleared out, Marcus is the one who apologizes to her and stays with her.

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