Movies starring Marlon Wayans

Scary Movie (2000)

88 mins     Comedy      

As a rule most spoof movies suck, or at least most spoof movies made post the 1990s. But whilst most of the more recent spoof movies suck, "Scary Movies" is one of those rare ones which is actually quite good. Of course it is...

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

102 mins     Drama      

One rave review after another is what I came across when I started to watch "Requiem for a Dream", and yes I started to look at what other people were saying because quite frankly I found it initially hard going. Now to be ho...

Scary Movie 2 (2001)

83 mins     Comedy      

I'm not ashamed to say that I enjoyed "Scary Movie" at the time it was released it was one of the better spoof movies and did a good job of parodying "Scream" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer". But that's where my enjoyme...

The Ladykillers (2004)

104 mins     Comedy, Crime      

A cross between a remake and a re-imagining the Coen brothers' "The Ladykillers" is a movie which probably is more entertaining for those who have never seen the original Ealing Studios classic. But I have seen the original, ...

White Chicks (2004)

109 mins     Comedy      

So we have two things going on in "White Chicks" a simple crime story featuring two bungling FBI agents trying to foil a kidnapping. And then there is the joke surrounding the Wayan's brothers donning laytex to pretend to be ...

Littleman (2006)

98 mins     Comedy, Crime, Fantasy      

So the joke is you have Marlon Wayans as the diminutive Calvin something which appears to have been achieved via various tricks, from over sized sets to his face being super imposed on the body of another actor. And that for ...

Norbit (2007)

102 mins     Comedy      

I could sort of see what Eddie Murphy was trying to achieve with "Norbit", he had shown in the "Nutty Professor" that a movie could be funny with him playing various characters disguised behind layers of latex. But it just do...

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

118 mins     Action , Adventure , Sci-Fi      

As a Brit my childhood was dominated by Action Man and from what I understand was in some ways the equivalent of the G.I. Joe toy. In some ways that probably helped when watching "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" as I had no expe...

The Heat (2013)

117 mins     Action , Comedy, Crime      

So in the left hand corner we have Sandra Bullock doing anally retentive and awkward whilst in the right hand corner we have Melissa McCarthy doing loud, obnoxious and foul mouthed. And the whole point of this is nothing new ...