Malibu's Most Wanted, while mildly entertaining will undoubtedly be bound to the time frame it was made. Five years from now few of the jokes will play and it will be alot less funny that it already is. So much of it is based upon flavor-of-the-month hip hop slang that it may be dated in year. "Who says shizzle anymore?" Not even Snoop.

Jamie Kennedy plays a wannabe rapper, but he's got just a little problem with his street cred. He's white, he's Jewish, and he's a rich kid from Malibu. Still he fancies himself to be a part of black culture. He talks the talk, and walks the walk and acts "black," in fact his only goal in life is to become a rapper. His Rap name is B-Rad ("Bradley is my slave name," he tells his shrink). You get the drill, he's a kid whose only notion of ghetto life is from listening to rap music, and is desperate to become part of culture that he considers much cooler than his dull up-bringing.

Regardless what people think of Bradley he has for all intents and purposes transformed himself into a black person and he is more or less accepted as such in sort of the comic version of Eminem. Meanwhile we are introduced to two black men (Anthony Anderson and Taye Diggs) who are polar opposites - black men who are so white they know less about being black than B Rad. Are they turncoats, trying to make it in a white man's world? Have they betrayed their brothers and sisters by acting white? Or are they, just products of their environment, simply being themselves?

Don't get too worked up about it either way because Malibu's Most Wanted doesn't seem particularly interested in examining these colorful issues. Just as an example as to how deeply these racial issues are taken to task - B Rad's dad (Ryan O' Neal) is a big-time political candidate, who isn't in the least bit embarrassed by his sons desire to be black, he's down with black people, (cough, wants their vote) he just think Bradley looks stupid wearing all those baggy gangsta clothes.

Is the film funny? It has a few moments, that ring true - but again that bell is not going to ring long. These are jokes with a short shelf-life. Anderson can be and is funny at times playing against character and Jamie's innocent take on blackhood is worth a chuckle here and there. Much like Chris Farley in Black Sheep, he wants to get his brother elected, and in the same fashion Kennedy seeks to help his father nail down the female vote with a banner that reads Gluckman is down with Bitches and Ho's. That's pretty much the dealio. Of course there's the infamous scene where racial tensions collide when B Rad accidentally uses the N word during one of his raps. "Dontchoo be goin' there white bread is the message." Malibu's Most Wanted could be called the best completely forgettable film in June.