Word: maleness
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...needs to worry about when you’ve got the style of a black, male, comic-book-fed Pauline Kael with a penchant for bad ’80s music videos, and a better wardrobe than the love-child of Dorian Grey and Lester Bowie...
...well-established core of female interaction. Norris’s employees, including Silverstone’s Lynn and Alfre Woodard’s hilarious Ms. Josephine, engage in sexually and racially comic antics. For example, the ladies have a lot of fun commenting on the sexuality of male hairdresser James (Bryce Wilson), who gives them plenty to question with his comments on details of his personal hygiene and is caught seriously grooving to a disco tune...
...Congeniality 2’s lack of a male lead, catfights, and tampon jokes only reinforce the girl-power theme. It avoids having a saccharine message on the importance of female “friendship” or overtly sexual comedy and stays cute by never taking itself too seriously. Rather than being like Waiting to Exhale women’s-lib drudge, it more closely resembles a male buddy comedy like Bad Boys. Except that instead of excess violence there’s just a whole lot of Vuitton...
That is, it is filled with blood and boobies and shot using the gorgeous black-and-white line drawings of the comic book as a storyboard. The sex is typical Hollywood fare, but the violence, heavy on dismemberment—especially of male genitalia—and decapitation, brings the film dangerously close to NC-17 territory...
According to the advisory, the victim described the suspect as a black male, 30-35 years of age, 5’8” to 5’11” tall, and weighing around 160 pounds. She also described him as having very short hair, an emaciated facial structure, very thin arms, and clad in a black puffy jacket and dark jeans...