Senseless (1998)

It's a laff riot that also contains a torrent of scathing social satire that couldn't be more timely in light of the dismantling of affirmative action.

This is not great comedy, and Wayans doesn't find ways to build and improvise, as Carrey does.

The gags, like the plotting, have a giddy edge that can be sharp, but just as often they go nowhere.

It's made by a director who knows comedy, working from a script founded on a surefire slapstick premise.

Big laughs are few and far between in this 1998 movie, which is more successful as motivational anecdote than as comedy.