6/10
Surprisingly Plain Comedy as Leiner's, Only Significance is to Cast Minority Leads
15 September 2004
Danny Leiner's following up to his well-calculated camp movie, Dude, Where's My Car?, is a surprisingly plain comedy, whose only significance is to cast Asian-American and Indian-American male leads as vehicles of a social commentary. The casting certainly evokes several controversies--for example, while most Americans know very well that there are many Gen-X or Gen-Y types among Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans, why does Hollywood rarely portray them in this film's manner? Leiner and company may bring up these issues to make changes, and maybe to find some commercial niche. The next should be Dude, Where's My Car? with ethnic minority leads; we gotta smash the current Hollywood casting standard that only whites can play loser roles. (grin)
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