Jamie Kennedy's experiment as a wannabe rapper in "Malibu's Most Wanted" doesn't entirely blow up in his face. This latest in a string of racially themed comedies manages to garner a few giggles despite its bling-bland plot.
Kennedy is Bradley "B-Rad" Gluckman, a Malibu-bred, Run-DMC-loving mallrat whose playa-posing ways interfere with his father's gubernatorial run. In a crude attempt at damage control, the campaign manager (Blair Underwood) hires two actors (Taye Diggs and Anthony Anderson) to take B-Rad to the ghetto and "scare the black out of him."
Anthony Anderson, Taye Diggs, Jamie Kennedy and Terry Crews are in hip-hop hot water in "Malibu's Most Wanted."
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The movie is a strange hybrid of "Bulworth," "8 Mile" and, for a brief moment, even "Dr. Doolittle." (Snoop Dogg provides the voice of a rat who urges B-Rad to keep it "riz-eal.") Some bits, like the flashback to Gluckman's "O.P.P."-themed bar mitzvah, are inspired cacklers. Others, like Kennedy's constant use of the catch phrase "Don't be hatin'," won't crack a smile.
"Wanted" isn't quite the real Slim Shady of hip-hop comedies. But you might lose yourself in a few of its amusing moments.
Malibu's Most Wanted (PG-13, 80 minutes) --Contains sexual humor, language and violence. Area theaters.
