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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).
  • Easily Forgiven: These three heartwarming things (parts of the movie) have happened in the final scene:
    • Marcus apologizes to his wife Gina after realizing that being a female is a hard task, and also because he'd been ignoring Gina for his job, causing Gina to reconcile, and thus, restoring their relationship.
    • Denise, although initially disappointed to learn the truth about Kevin before warming up to him, falls for Kevin, thanking him after he saves her from Vandergeld who tried to kill her for exposing his crime on camera.
    • Even after the Copeland brothers' disguises were revealed, Tori, Lisa, and Karen seemed very impressed and ultimately concede that they liked Brittany and Tiffany a lot more when Marcus and Kevin were them, and then the five agree to then make a pact to remain friends and go shopping together.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: Latrell. A bombastic-yet-highbrow mountain of a man 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.
    • After both brothers get fired, Kevin apologising for his selfishness to Marcus, all while praising his brother's loyalty and how being with him encourages him to be a better man.
    • How Denise and Kevin finally get together. Kevin finally comes clean about his identity and his lack of wealth, but that doesn't matter to her, since his willingness to take a bullet for her seals him as a hero in her eyes, kickstarting their relationship.
    • The last moments of the movie. The brothers make terrible white chicks - but excellent friends.
    • It’s definitely Played for Laughs, but Latrell’s love for ‘Tiffany’ is very sweet. Especially since he takes a bullet for ‘her’.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: At one point a character says “Tonight’s the night!” and the camera pans to Jennifer Carpenter’s character.
  • 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 racist depictions of 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 rival agents Harper & Gomez who raid the brothers' rooms, with Harper of them finding a pair of girl's panties and deciding to do creepy stalker stuff with them. Gomez calls him out for this.
    Gomez: "Wow, you really are disgusting."
  • Uncanny Valley: Unintentional, the makeup jobs on the brothers are just... wrong, especially the rather opaque skin tone needed to make the Wayans look pale.
  • Values Resonance: Gomez and Harper are rightfully suspended from their jobs after they non-consensually strip down the real Brittany and Tiffany Wilson in front of the chief in an effort to prove that the Copeland brothers are impersonating the girls, with the latter agent getting a punch in the face for his assault. With the #MeToo movement in full swing today, this scene still holds up in regards to the forceful stripping being recognised as criminal sexual assault.
  • 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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