Martin Lawrence and Jamie Foxx dusted off their characters Sheneneh and Wanda for a bit at the BET Awards a while back (video after the jump), and people seemed to like it. Since movie execs are braying jackasses who would try to make a movie out of literally anything people enjoy these days (CHEESE PLATE! IN 3D!), Screen Gems hired Foxx to write an entire movie around it. (TWO MEN! DRESSED AS WOMEN! BOTH UGLY! IT WRITES ITSELF! FETCH MY COCAINE!) Today’s news is that it now has (ulp) a distributor and a release date. Says Production Weekly:
Sony gives the Jamie Foxx (Wanda) & Martin Lawrence (Sheneneh) comedy “Skank Robbers“ an Aug. 19, 2011 release date.
What do you think, is this a better or worse idea than a Les Grossman movie? I guess that’s kind of like asking what flavor of popsicle I’d rather have shoved up my ass. As much as he seems like a total d-bag, you have to give Jamie Foxx credit for being talented, but Martin Lawrence has never been funny. He’s like a black Carlos Mencia, whose obvious, unfunny observations are not improved by his shouting. Anyway, I think they should team up Sheneneh and Wanda with Les Grossman, Madea, and Eddie Murphy’s last three fat suits for one super-fat, super-cross-dressing, super-group movie. It would be like The Avengers for f*cking morons.
Related: Who finds cross-dressing funnier, black people or British people?
I like how they ruin the one good joke in the entire bit by putting a record scratch BEFORE the punchline
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I’m still waiting on a gritty and edgy take on the origins of Fire Marshall Bill.
Related: Who finds cross-dressing funnier, black people or British people?
Answer: Not my parents.
/No! I hate you!
What about Mrs. Doubtfire and Sister Mary Clarence, Lince?
The positive review quotes features porno mag Black Tail Magazine and misspells the word “irresistible”.
This is bound to be a quality film.
ARE ANY OF THOSE TWO HOT GIRLS SINGLE? THEY LOOK SEXY AND DEFINITELY DOWN TO FUCK! – Pete Hammond.
As a white guy, I’m looking forward to seeing this and getting stabbed for laughing too hard at the stereotypical characterizations.
Nah, really I won’t be able to hear anything over the audience yelling at the screen constantly.
asking what flavor of popsicle I’d rather have shoved up my ass
Wasn’t the Daniel Craig popsicle gRape flavored?
MY…NAME…IS HUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRDURRRRRRRRR
*digs up al jolson’s corpse*
*puts it in a dress*
*rapes it*
Imagine the punny sequels, they’ll just continue to self-propagate:
The Whoreticulturalists
Hoochie Mama Mia
Twisted Sistas
Ug Glee
Welfare Weather Friends
make a movie out of literally anything people enjoy these days
So I should be expecting a call from Hollywood about a movie where the star jerks off in the shower all the time?
“Martin Lawrence has never been funny. He’s like a black Carlos Mencia”
Fuck you man, Blue Streak was the shit.
I’ll admit, Blue Streak was the one thing he did that I ever enjoyed.But it’s not good enough to change my opinion of Martin Lawrence.
Nothing to Lose was pretty good. Granted, he had Tim Robbins there to grab the shit off the top shelf for him, but I digress. I thought it was better than Blue Streak but to each his own.
“Gorilla, Skank, big lips, baby momma, domestic violence?!?!” Great job guys! The KKK couldn’t have come up with a better script. But ahhh…you might want to excuse yourselves, because your contempt for black women is showing.
Whatever it takes to make a dolla’, right guys?
Even if it comes at the continued disrespect of your own women.
There are a lots of fellas out there who can’t wait to get the chance to laugh their heads off at these long lived stereotypes of black women. Thanks for giving them the chance to do so, in public.