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JUST A SILLY COMEDY PEOPLE, NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY!


What's up with everyone complaining about how martin lawrence is racist? In some ways i can understand the complaints but if you guys just watch the film properly you'll come to learn that martin lawrence' comments make him the dumb one who annoys the hell out of Hank (the smart one) in this movie. That's where the comedy is and most buddy comedies are like that! Many people i know (white and black) have enjoyed this movie and have NOT got offended in any way beacuse they too know it's just a silly comedy! If anything, i think steve zahn steals the show because he is literally the main character and it's sooooo funny when he holds his anger in and its just the look on his face that cracks me up! Martin lawrence is only there to make situations worse making steve zahn more and more funny as he is about to explode! In a way, it's a good buddy comedy knowing that two people with COMPLETE differences can work as a team and save the day!

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Yea.. i really didn't like this movei due to the blatant use of racism through the whole freaking movie AHH.. it was funny every now and then from martin lawrence. But after the 1000th time its just like shut up... its just the way the movie was written. its not that martin lawrence is a racist person its just the part he took on in the movie.. but still.. it just go to the point of being retarted.. id say the same if it was a movie where a white guy kept saying blatantly racist things about a black guy... its just the whole thing got old.

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Absolutely, It's not that bad!!!!!!

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If Martin lawerances character got punished at the end of the film, then it wouldn't have been so bad.

Also, the deleted ending was worse, with how lawerence becomes the head to satisfy community service.

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