Rotten
Marci X, though, is just clueless and sad, seemingly having missed the point that hip-hop is no longer a novelty to be slapped on the cheek with a white glove.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Overview
Marci Feld, a pampered Jewish-American Princess, doesn’t know about rap or the business world. But everything changes after rapper Dr. S releases a controversial CD for the hard-core hip-hop record label owned by Marci’s father. After a national protest breaks out to boycott the new CD and the record label, her father is hospitalized by a heart attack. Marci decides to step in to save his reputation and the family business by taming the raunchy rapper's wild bad boy image.
Director and cast
- Richard Benjamin Director
- Lisa Kudrow as Marci Feld
- Damon Wayans as Dr. S
- Richard Benjamin as Ben Feld
- Jane Krakowski as Lauren Farb
- Christine Baranski as Mary Ellen Spinkle
- Paula Garcés as Yolanda Quinones
- Charles Kimbrough as Lane Strayfield
- Veanne Cox as Caitlin Mellowitz
- Sherie Rene Scott as Kirsten Blatt
- Gano Grills Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
9%
Tomatometer
Rotten
[it] might better have been called Marci Why.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Rotten
Rudnick can be an extraordinarily clever writer, but he doesn't seem to understand that a screenplay has to entail more than a series of skit ideas strung together.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
Fresh
It's no masterpiece, but I found it consistently good-hearted and sometimes hilarious, and the sparse crowd I saw it with was laughing as much as I was, especially at the outrageous rap numbers.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
If the context of Marci X were more realistic, a lot of these gags would soar. But the context is drag-show dinner theater.
David Edelstein, Slate
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