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  • Critical Dissonance: The Critic Score on Rotten Tomatoes is a lowly 15% vs an audience score of 55%.
  • Cult Classic: 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 (Terry Crews being in it also helps).
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: 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.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The movie has a major cult following in Latin American countries.
  • Ham and Cheese: Terry Crews knows exactly what kind of movie he's in, and plays Latrell with as much ham as humanly possible.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: In the movie, Terry Crews plays Latrell Spencer, who pursues Tiffany, actually Marcus in disguise, in an incredibly aggressive manner, and even tries to give him a spiked drink. In 2018, Crews testified in congress about the problem of rampant sexual harassment in the entertainment industry, after he alleged that a drunk talent agent fondled him years earlier, and he was forced to keep the whole thing quiet.
  • Heartwarming Moments:
    • 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.
    • The last moments of the movie. The brothers make terrible white chicks - but excellent friends.
  • Hollywood Pudgy: In-universe, Played for Laughs. 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.
  • Ho Yay: Latrell and Marcus-Tiffany. Esp. in The Reveal.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • Even people who haven't seen this movie are more than aware of the scene with Latrell singing "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton, complete with the head movements and all.
    • Also, Latrell's reaction when he discovers who 'Tiffany' really is: "Oh, the deception, the betrayal, man!" Specially in Latin American countries.
    • "Where's Latrell!?" "On the dance floor" Explanation 
    • "She's gonna have a bitch fit!"
    • Everyone say it with me... "AYO, HOLD MY POODLE!"
  • Mexicans Love Speedy Gonzales: Despite being lambasted by critics for its perceived racism against black and Latino people, the film has generated a cult following among those very groups, who find it hilarious, whether ironically or not.
  • Misaimed Fandom: 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.
  • Retroactive Recognition: Astute viewers will recognize Debra Morgan as Lisa and Amber "Cutthroat Bitch" Volakis as Tiffany Wilson. For some, it'll be Terry Crews from Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Expendables or Idiocracy.
  • The Scrappy: Gina, due to her self-righteous and egotistical behaviour towards Marcus. Even her friend is more of a Hate Sink for trying to encourage it.
  • Signature Scene: 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’ over-the-top acting and the pure hilarity of it all.
  • So Bad, It's Good: The movie is sexist, tasteless and just a wee bit racist... all of which combine to make it a hilarious spectacle of badness.
  • Squick:
    • 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.
    • 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.
  • WTH, Costuming Department?: 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.
  • Why Would Anyone Take Her Back?: 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 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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