Smith
often compares his company to CNN, and in many ways Vice has become the equivalent for many younger viewers who no longer watch traditional television, especially when it uses stale
old formats like panels of aging
white men debating politics.
Yes, the U.S. justice system is
often terribly biased against black
men, and yes,
older white men sometimes say regrettable racist stuff.
Rock and King manage to generate some charm together, but their romance is
often lost amid easy fish - out - of - body jokes (there is not only one, but two, scenes of Lance bumping to rap music, forgetting he's in the form of a portly
old white man) and boring subplots, in particular one revolving around Wellington's scheming wife (Jennifer Saunders) and her lover (Greg Germann), who also happens to be Wellington's right - hand
man.