Hip
Hop meets shop till you drop!
"Marci X" was
likely in my Bottom 10 of 2003...this Lisa
Kudrow/Damon Wayans vehicle centers around a
Jewish-American Princess (Kudrow) who takes over
a hardcore hip-hop label and tries to rein in
its most controversial rapper (Wayans).
The entire storyline of this film is ludicrous,
with incredibly abrupt shifts in character with
no logic presented within the script. Characters
seem to contradict themselves almost
immediately...Along with Kudrow, you have
Christine Baranski playing a conservative
Senator whose shifts are remarkably stupid,
abrupt and nonsensical.
Screenwriter Paul Rudnick has managed to create
one of the most idiotic scripts I've witnessed
on screen, and only a genuine fondness for
Kudrow salvages any aspect of this film for me.
Wayans overplays almost every scene he's in with
a histrionic rapper that is more irritating than
entertaining.
I have to say that even from the title "Marci X"
I had a bad feeling about this film, but I held
out hope that the idea could be salvaged. Nope,
it was hopeless.
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Written by Richard
Propes
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Jacob Hall
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TC Candler's Comment
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Jacob
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