Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Ensofter Overrated and overhyped

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Lisa Muñoz James Toback tried to send out a message of what white American kids do to adapt to a hip hop culture while growing up. Like the movie Thirteen, it explores themes of what kids will do to fit in. Rich white kids preferring the black hood life of sex, violence and drugs tearing their own lives apart, black kids mingling with whites, trying to claim their own business deals, with guns and taunts when they have the cash, not trying to make their lives better, just expanding their stereotypes. This makes neither the group of whites or blacks likable. There's a lot of different story lines but none of them really click.The one that does is when a corrupt cop (played by Ben Stiller) approaches a black guy with a bribe that turns out to be a con, to get at his friend Rich. When he finds out about it, not only does he screw his girlfriend (Claudia Schiffer) but he also gets one of his white cats to take him out, without even telling him why, and he does it. The girlfriend is neither happy nor sad when she hears the news.There are a hell of a lot of cameos in this movie, including a then fit Mike Tyson, whom Toback is a fan, Brooke Sheilds, Joe Pantoliano, Jared Leto and last but not least, Robert Downey Jr, as a gay man looking a lot like Elton John. Unfortunately all the famous people in the world can't make up for how screwed up the story line is. It could have been a great film about teens, race relations and cultural impact, but it totally missed the spot.

mario10zeus The idea of the movie sounds interesting, white kids who imitate black hip-hop culture, but that's it. Toback is a 60 year old man who doesn't anything about the youth at the time this movie was made, and was simply trying to cash in on the hip hop craze. With the help of Wu-Tang clan. We have a series of vignettes ,where these characters interact. Few scenes are memorable like Robert Downey trying to pick up Mike Tyson or Claudia Schiffer's ramblings. But many parts have simply to much holes in the plot,..oh wait, there is no plot, just htese vignettes.This movie is racist. Blacks are all thugs, rapper, who want to have sex with white women and smoke weed. All whites are losers, posers and have no personality. There are no Hispanic nor Asian characters, even though it's supposed to be New York. They are no Black females either. Kidada Jones plays Power's love interest, but her character seemed Puerto-Rican to me, and in real life she is biracial. The threesome in the park seemed odd,..who the f*** has sex in Central Park in broad daylight? Can't they go to a motel room? Power is supposed to have money. I'm not from New York, I'm from Miami and the only public place I know people have sex at is a beach at night, but Central Park? Is Claudia Schiffer's character a psycho? she gets her boyfriend killed by his best buddy, whom she later hooks up with. She is evil incarnate. What would she find in Ben Stiller? She is several inches taller. and even her character is a feminist, she ends up with Mike Tyson? Rent this movie only to make fun of the idiocy of Toback, and the stereotypes.

frantz21 For a film about young people it developed slowly even tortuously. It had a number of strands • Privileged white kids slumming it ,sometime dangerously • People starting out with the wrong people for the wrong reasons • People ending up with the right people for the right reasons • The violent world of hip hop capitalism • Manipulative revenge • Parental /child relationships Ad that to great performances from ;• Robert Downey Jr. • Joe Pantoliano • Brooke Shields • Ben StillerGreat cameo from Mike TysonPlenty of rappers being themselves ( rakweon and method man )Claudia Schiffer she actually can actMany younger actors William Lee Scott, Bijou Phillips, Elijah Wood, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Gaby HoffmannThis will be a classic like juice

teddyryan BLACK AND WHITE contains Mike Tyson playing himself, which is interesting since Mike Tyson as Mike Tyson advocates some interesting things in this film. Else than that, I found Bijou Philips irritating, the storyline poorly done, and Ray Allen's performance not exactly oscar worthy.