YOU PEOPLE MOVIE REVIEW | Double Toasted
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YOU PEOPLE MOVIE REVIEW | Double Toasted - Today at Double Toasted we have our You People review. In this funny video, we look at the You People trailer before going in-depth into our You People reaction. We discuss the comedy, the performances of Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy, along with giving our final thoughts on the movie. What did you think of You People? Let us know in the comment section below.
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The rushed happy ending and impromptu wedding made me roll my eyes to the point of ocular strain.
I know I wanted a happy ending but an actual wedding with everyone dressed up and Amira in a white wedding dress.
Exactly!! What if they had just decided they don't like eachother anymore and dipped lol
That is how I felt about the third act of the gay romance movie Fire Island.
Yeah that ending was too easy. Feel like they ran out of time and just threw that out there.
Facts. I couldn’t even watch the end.
The thing with this movie is it felt like a lecture. I remember someone saying Kenya Barris writes things to teach white people on what it's like to be black. Black-ish, Black AF, this movie. All of them have the black characters telling stupid white characters "we do this because of slavery. We do that because of your people..." Like when you watch a Tyler Perry movie, you expect to go to church. You watch a Kenya Barris project and expect the scene to suddenly stop to go on about being black. People having a great time and suddenly "you know a black man invented the remote control and the traffic light?" Like its great to learn about the culture. Some things I didn't even know. But Kenya just straight up throws a cinder block at you
Completely agree. There is no subtlety. The message is constantly being told to you instead of being shown. Also the characters are all one dementional stereotypes and no one comes across as likeable.
It also seems like Kenya's approach to making a film about the culture is to just throw endless amounts of cultural references that don't really fit and are just there to say "look how cultured I am".
And it's one of those things that make me hate movies, tv shows and many other media about race, cause it is telling from a black and white lense of race and not having a grey area on how all ethnicity of people can be racist.
Didn't he also work on "Soul Food" by any chance?
@@Power-9Hunnid No, he didn't. Not the movie or the Showtime series
You said that perfectly.
I watched this whole thing sighing “Bernie Mac did it better” and then missing Bernie Mac 🫠
This was the hood version as Eddie said
Yeah Guess who was a great comedy
💯🎯👌🏾
Guess Who was dope
So did 'Fools Rush In.' 'Our Family Wedding.' And ESPECIALLY 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' The "interracial relationship/culture shock of intended wedding parties" trope has gotten quite stale and boring...
- Total lack of chemistry between Hill/ London.
- The transitions between scenes were terrible.
- The whole cocaine scenario.
- The basketball scene where Jonah Hill(who co-wrote the movie) is secretly totally AWESOME at pick-up basketball.
- Julia Louis Dreyfus manages to have a scene where she lights a hat(a kufi)on fire, AND a scene where she tears someone's wig off.
- Here's how lazy the screenwriting is, when the parents arrange for Ezra/Amira to reunite by tricking them, Julia Louis Dreyfus tricks Hill by going shoe shopping, and Eddie tells his daughter, "I don't even remember the reason I made up."
- The wedding at the end. Here's the worst part, it's a surprise wedding arranged by the parents - after Ezra/Amira broke up and hadn't seen each other in months. If my parents threw me a surprise wedding, I'd kill them.
- I laughed twice - someone said Jonah Hill looked like a young Hulk Hogan, and the idea of a Tron wedding.
i thought the n words in paris bit was kind of funny too
Thank you for saying that for me🤣🤣🥰
I chuckled at the tron wedding and that was about it. It was really disappointing to see eddie murphy's robotic performance, he should have been the showstealer.
The tearing the wig off scene was so played out I rolled my eyes I was like really? A weave joke again? lol
The ordinary people scene when Ezra's dad playing ordinary people to Amira like that, that was hilarious lol 😂😂😂😂
That was the only part that actually made me laugh.
Yea but why did Amira always look annoyed I would've been laughing
@@ceedoda because he kept talking about Xibit and her favorite rapper is Nipsey Hustle.
@@revekat2053 Lmao I Get It
I liked the dad
"You can fill the movie with as much of the message as you want, but if you don't ENTERTAIN the audience first, it will fall on deaf ears." -Kevin Feigie on the MCU going forward (we'll see).
That quote is so hard. I really do hope bro takes a small break and looks at everything to get them creative juices flowing. I want Spider-Man 4 to be absolute peak.
@@whosmansisthis6624 Spot-on!!that's what we ALL want. And as a paying audience, it's not asking alot!
There is preaching and there is teaching then there is ranting, if there is no purpose no one learns anything.
Kevin has nothing to prove to you after over a decades worth of films that has made the movie studios Billions of dollars. Carry on. 💅
Agreeed💯🎯
It was Kenya Barris, y’all. What did you expect?! 😂😂😂
He writes like he's a white man who has never met any black people and only bases characters on stereotypes from the 70s. I can't stand his shows
This is exactly what I expected. The trailer and clips is the only thing I have ever watched from anything he has ever made.
Yup.
THIS!!!!! These bad California blackish stories are garbage
I was looking for this comment. It's so true tho!😂
That 2000’s Guess Who movie with Bernie and Ashton was WAY BETTER than this 😂
FAAACTS😂😂
Agreed
It really was
I feel like they made this movie 20 years too late.
How ? The subject is still relevant maybe you are the one stuck in the past
Agreed💯 Maybe even 30 years late for before Eminem existed and before Obama became President and before our vice Kamala BUT maybe a little after ML King!! 😂
And there are already different iterations of it already. Guess who and guess who's coming to dinner. Idk why dating someone white as a black person is comedic, but here we are. 😆
@Excaliber You mean besides the fact that this exact concept of a movie has been made at least three times off the top of my head already? One of these was made almost exactly 20 years ago in 2005 called Guess Who with Ashton Kutcher and Bernie Mac. It's the same movie, just replacing the actors. It's just hacky at this point.
There's a French comedy about a Catholic white couple who have multiple daughters and they all married a man of a different culture. Then their youngest daughter got engaged to an African man and they're like "another one, couldn't he be white!".
So in this movie, the black and white parents aren't predictably mean to the fiancees. They're just mean to each other. Not because of racism in Europe, but because they're both stubborn jerks who want their culture to win for that wedding.
They're besties in the end, tho.
My point is that you can make that type of movie in 2023. But it needs to be subverted now. It can't just be "white = dumb" and "black = woke".
This could've been a thoughtful exploration of the differences between Jews and Muslims as well as white culture VS. black Muslim culture, using the differences as a foil for humor. But it looks like they went for cheap laughs. Too bad.
But we did get a modern day Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, it was called Guess Who with Bernie Mac. Same plot. And it came out almost 20 years ago.
I wish Gilbert Gottfried was alive to play Jonah's part instead.
Now THAT would be a movie!
I loved Gilbert Gottfried
I don't know why I agree GG is the shit.
😂😂😂😂😂 I’m crying thinking about him in each scene.
Is Gottfried dead? I didn't even know he was sick.
I’m just tired of this trope of bringing YT lover/spouse to meet the black family that’s starts off judgmental and prejudice and end up becoming understanding welcoming
Right we have enough of this. Next ot will be mom he's an alien
@@gljcnh that could be fun
This trope brings back bad memories.
And the fact the put the goofiest looking mfs with women out their league.
Ed helms pulled taraji p Henson in that one dumb ass movie, now Jonah hill with Lauryn London? Really my nigga
@@TheOneManWhoBeatYou unrealistic Hollywood/rich ppl with agenda
my face during 97% of the movie 🫥
I wanna know who told Jonah hill the dyed blonde mullet was a good look
the updated mullet. LOL him and Julia made the movie.
It looks like the Chucky doll took Jonah's place
He looked like a young Diabetic version of Hulk Hogan
@jaymac8421 I know you won't see this but 👍 wish I could give you more 😂
My biggest issue was the lack of chemistry between Jonah and Laura. It felt like he tried more than she did. It was like she was uncomfortable with Jonah. They didn’t even kiss until the end and it felt awkward. Jonah I could tell really tried while Laura felt like she was picking up a paycheck. I actually enjoyed Jonah and Eddie together more. 😅😅😅correction; they kissed twice 😮😮 They should have gotten Keke Palmer to play the part😊😊
They literally kissed when he proposed that was like almost the beginning of the movie.
Yeah I felt the same way. You can tell Laura wasn’t really down with to much kissing. Other then that I think they was cool.
Normally in rom coms you see the couples kiss or be alot more affectionate towards each other more often.
They only kissed twice.I guess physical touch isn't their love language.
Zoe Saldana wasn’t available so they got Lauren. 😂
@@Dutch3k5 Zoe is the go-to
I think my biggest problem with the film is that a lot of the tropes and plot points don’t end up actually going anywhere. Things seem to end or are interrupted, abruptly, just to get into the next part of the film.
Yeah like amira trying to get her fashion job thats not resolved.
@Mutale Mwananshiku and why was she so annoyed and getting help? I wonder if a lot of scenes were left on the cutting room floor
So agree!
Like the whole barbershop bit…it ended before any punchline. Like ok he was wearing red, but there’s so much more comedic bits they could have done there. Instead it’s onto the next scene.
@@Zanza007 Yeah, it feels like a lot was cut from that scene in particular! I was upset that there wasn’t more to that scene.
The 2 parents "Parent trapped" them at the end and had the wedding all set up and going. No one seems to find that weird and forceful.
These movies never capture the actual awkwardness in these real situations for the sake of comedy skits that never land
The running gag with David Duchovny is that he did an XFiles movie with Xhibit.
I think they’re friends IRL. Xzibit also did an X-Files rap for that movie. 😂
Not at first, Kenya Barris came up with the first joke and he had no idea David had worked with him before. Maybe it was turned into a running gag as David told him.
@@CrowTRobot Oh wow I didn't know that. Ok then the gag of him always mentioning Xzibit is funnier. XD
Lol
While there are light skinned black people, "Mr. Make everything about blackness" has often made the lead actresses of his shows and movies biracial. The black father and mother in this movie would more than likely have a daughter who was around their skin tone.
Yeah he's so full of shit for that!
The son was even lighter, what point are you making again?
Dude to a lot of white slave owners forcing themselves on slave women, there is going to be some light skinned that will come out of darker skinned. We don’t know the grandparents, so it’s possible and does happen.
This was the first Kenya Barris project I've watched (for whatever reason Blackish and Black AF did not compel me to watch). I was underwhelmed by this one. The movie was so intent on delivering a message that it forgot to be a movie and entertain.
There were moments that were genuinely funny, but the overall messaging just weighed everything down to the point of being insulting and preachy. I agree with Martin, the couple is way too old to be this concerned with pleasing their parents.
When I seen the trailer I was like.....we still doing the whole interracial joke thing?😐 I was hoping that was left in the early 2000s.
Why it still needs to be addressed sounds like u rather it be swept under the rug
@Dwayne J Peterkin it was addressed in the mid 1900s and early 2000s lol. It's the old heads that still think this way, keeping the problem relevant when it's not a problem to the new generation. That's literally the whole point of the movie, so I'm not sure why you think I'm sweeping an issue that doesn't exist anymore under the rug. This is another version of a story from "Guess Who's coming to dinner" which was a movie from 1967.
@@FrankieTakesOver the problem isn’t going away anytime soon as this kind of thing is still happening and it will take awhile for it to be solved the new generations need to know about it until it becomes the norm where it is no longer an issue
@@FrankieTakesOver as someone who has tried to date “interracial” and has had to face the racism of my partners parents on more than one occasion before I’ve even turned 25. It’s still a problem that is alive and well. Racism isn’t dead so why would this specific problem just “go away”. 🛑🧢
@Dajiyah Mcae I've also had my own experiences in the same regard, but in my eyes interracial couples aren't as much of an issue to the mainstream of America as it was 50 yrs ago. Today, everyone's with everyone on every magazine, tv show, movie, commercial, etc. Obviously if we're talking about racism we can talk about systemic racism, police brutality, what people say on the internet, etc, but I don't think most have a fit when they see interracial celebrity couples on tv or interracial couples in the supermarket. Do these people/parents exist? Sure, but they are such a small percentage of people(who will die off soon), and it feels like making another movie for the 100th time around this is more regressive than progressive.
My biggest problem is mainly this being made by Kenya Barris, who I see as a lesser evil version of Tyler Perry. Both, especially Tyler Perry, make their millions/careers off of black stereotypes and old outdated tropes. Also when it comes to the black and white topic, they always paint black people as mean or confrontational and white people as dumb, but they mean well🙄. To me these movies only do more harm than good by keeping old stereotypes relevant and seem more devisive than funny. I doubt oldheads would watch anything Kenya Barris and if they do, their minds aren't gonna change by watching these exaggerated stereotypes on display, just for the last 10 minutes to be where everyone smiles, holds hands and sings kumbaya.
Jonah Hill looks Rough!
Like, Damn....
He does
@@sheemnewera Drugs and Alcohol....
I'd Guess....
@@maloperverso8118 most likely
I thought I was the only one who noticed that. 😅
Definitely didn't look 35. I would swear he was 42 but he is not even 40 yet.
Take every stereotype, put it in a blender and let them loose and you get this movie it sounds like.
The moment I saw Kenya Barris was involved I knew this was gonna happen.
Right?! I saw people on Instagram saying "This is gonna be good." The TRAILER wasn't even funny 😖
The thing that burnt my biscuits about this movie was that nobody tried to get to know a person one on one for who they are. Everything was generalized rederic or nonsense. Sometimes both lol. It was cute but I would by no means take this movie seriously.
Guess Who 2005 Bernie Mac, Ashton Kutcher
Classic 👍
Bernie and Ashton at a time when comedy was slightly awkward, but more importantly inoffensive
That movie fire
That was much funnier than this film. And that film is nearly 20 years older than this film.
I’m definitely more in Martin’s camp where I didn’t hate it to the degree as Korey and Chris, but it wasn’t very good. As you guys said, it’s basically like Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner mixed with Meet the Parents, but nowhere near as good as both of those. Aside from Mike Epps and the sister, the characters are either unlikable or stupid, the social commentary seems to butt heads with the romantic comedy aspect, and minus a few moments it just wasn’t funny. I know you said it felt like the worst parts of Meet the Parents, but I got more laughs out of that movie and that felt more relatable.
Another case of a comedy where you got a great cast like Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill (who I know co-wrote the movie), and Julia Louie-Dreyfuss, who’ve all shown to be very funny in other projects, but their talents are wasted on a thin material. Honestly this is the type of movie where I was expecting Keenan Ivory Wayans from Don’t Be a Menace to come out of nowhere to say, *MESSAGE!*
I enjoyed it. Amira is light skinned as it does indicate that her great grandfather is white and the actress is half white. I thought it was a combo of Guess Who ( Ashton Kutcher and Zoey Saldana ) meets Fools Rush In ( with Selma Hayek and Mathew Perry) 😅😅😅😅
@@suzyq3771 I mean Guess Who is a remake to Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner so still the same 🤷♂️, but glad you enjoyed it, I wished I did.
@@gcolbyp All movies are remakes . Man y’all love to hate
I know people get older, but why does Eddie Murphy look younger than Jonah Hill?
Imaging looking young with such cringy character Lol. The man looks really good for his age honestly
@@sorartificial It's weird tho cuz he was looking pretty old in Coming 2 America to me.
@@anthonyanderson9303 dude when you compared the first movie of course he looks like a grandpa
@@sorartificial I'm saying C2A compared to this movie.
The best way I can describe this movie is like when Jordan came back playing for the Wizards. Your extremely excited to see a legend of legends again but at the same time, deep down, you know he’s past his prime and you’ll never be able to get that version back. That’s what it feels like watching new Eddie Murphy films these days. Cause yes Kenya Burress was directing and Jonah was his costar but at the end of the day I’m pretty sure Eddie has enough power in Hollywood to make or at least influence these types of decisions. So with this movie I kinda knew what to expect
That Dolemite movie was funny I didn't even bother watching Coming 2 America 2 bcuz people said it sucked.I think it was really watered down bcuz he wanted his young children to be able to watch it.Beverly Hills Cop 4 is coming soon and that'll be Rated PG13 probably so we'll see how that goes.I wish we could get Trading Places and 48 Hour sequels but that'll never happen.We did get a Another 48 Hours but a third one won't happen bcuz Nick Nolte is way too old now and I doubt he's in Mel Gibson shape bcuz they're even about to make a Lethal Weapon 5
@@keldorthebluemack That actually makes a lot of sense considering he has 10 kids and is like 65 now. Seems like him and Adam Sandler are kinda the same in that they just make movies pretty much for themselves at this point (excluding Sandler's serious roles). And you made the right choice not watching Coming to America 2. I saw it and it was definitely like a low low rental
"Am I Malcolm X or am I Candace Owens?"
😂😂😂😂😂
I think the movie needed more Mike Epps! Korey you are right about the movie being meanspirted and forcing humor. I wish Laurens character was a little softer with Juilas character. Julias character could have easily not been so nice…. I wish the scenes could have been meaningful with something to say and great humor sprinkled in. The music score would trick my brain into thinking I was watching a great movie too.
I thought the movie could have been funnier. It leaned too series when it should have leaned more into the comedy.
It was too dry for sure.
Nah it was good
@@excaliber8713 I liked it, I was just saying some of it felt off and dry. It should have been more comedy. It took itself too series
Guess Who with Bernie Mac nailed it way better IMO. Way funnier and never got too serious and lecture-y.
Yes , so true. Julia Dreyfus was the funniest person in this movie even though she was kinda an idiot 😂
I am about the same as Martin on this one. Totally get Corey and Chris' comments, but it's exactly what I was expecting after the trailer.
Same here. For something to throw on on a Saturday afternoon, I thought it wasn't bad. My biggest gripe with it honestly was the completely unnecessary, overly stylized scene transitions that went on way too long. Cutting those out probably would have saved the movie 20 minutes :P
@@zakeden1353 LOL, totally agree, those kept pissing my wife off as well. I thought she was gonna turn it off after the second or third time.
I at least appreciated the Xzibit references since they probably know each other in real life. X actually played an FBI Agent in one of the X-Files movies.
As someone who dates interracially, it’s like they have no idea what one is like. The topic of race BARELY comes up especially if the relationship is healthy
Korey: “I don’t do it like these people”
Me: But you sound like those people subtlety.
“What’s ya boy name? Africa-?”
😂😂😂😂😂
“Kenya Barris.”
Korey, you so wrong for that💀😆💀😆
When I saw this was Barris, I already knew I wasn’t interested. Dude is a one-trick pony ripping himself off. _Black-ish_ did him so well, everything after that has been a subpar regurgitation of it. The trailer didn’t disabuse me of that thought, so I decided to save my valuable time and passed on _You People._
I’m just here for the funnies from the DT Crew😊
I’ve been listening to Korey’s movie reviews since 2009 when I was 14 years old. I never thought I'd see Korey openly apologize for his harsh criticisms during one of his movie reviews. That’s twice. The first time was during Korey’s review of The Whale.
@@squish-bod2573 Thank You for the kind words.
You can see how uncomfortable Chris was while reviewing this. This movie was hard to watch, it has his moments but it goes waaaaay too far with the race.
He's right about how the white characters are dumb because they're white.
Like the scene where they burn Eddie's hat. Logical grown adults with half a brain would have just blown the candles out first. Who fights over lit candles next to flammable things?! They're complete idiots!
Agree bro
It needed to be addressed learn from this and realize that change is happening
Yeah cause it's clearly racist towards white but he cant say it
This is one of those reviews where I wish I could grab a microphone and join you guys. You three barely scratched the surface of what's wrong with this movie.
Katherine Hepburn's face @10:03 🤣😭 #priceless
I didn't watch this directly while at work my coworker was watching this with it on speaker so I could hear and follow along. And from what I was hearing and hearing the critique here it seems very accurate. The moment I was checked out like wtf is this, is a bit the wife telling Jonah hill she didn't get a position and he offers to help and her snapping at him because what she's a helpless black girl that needs a handout? I'm like wtf is this this seems like those youtube morality lesson videos. With one over the top bad person going off.
This movie seemed dated as hell. There were a few chuckles in there but overall it felt very outdated. There are probably always going to be funny moments when you bring two very different cultures together but they didn't explore a more contemporary type of feel with that. And I hate when you can tell a black character or characters were written by a white person that has never met a black person in real life, but the part in the barbershop with the crips felt that way and I'm almost certain those characters were written by a black person so that's even worse and we're still talking about black people and boats or the ocean that trope is washed, come up with something new.
How ? The subject matter is still very relevant
@@excaliber8713 I think he meant the whole plot of two people of different ethnicities or social classes dating and their families clashes. It is very 90's / early 2000's (e.g. My Greek Fat Wedding). I think that type of comedy can be revived but the writing has to be a whole lot smarter than this.
Agreed. 💯 The movies seems to have a serious underlining problem with integration. Aside from the family meeting family stuff it makes out that we live in dumb segregated communities where no one has friends or knows anyone from any other race or culture and that when we do it is unacceptable. Defo stupid and patronising. We are better and far beyond this unless we want to desperately go back to before the 1960s or something? Defo need better script writing instead of all this laziness.
Totally agree. The whole meeting the parents thing is genuinely from the early 00s. I mean sure, it's awkward, but you know how they're gonna play it without having to see it. If you're black, slavery has to be brought up along with ancestors, privilege, etc. If you're white, you're just dumb. Literally that's as far as it ever goes with this junk. Lol
Bruh y'all don't get tired of calling things dated almost every comedy are of it's time and things can also get recycled to today
Can't Korey just speak his mind without people trying to label him🤣
He's guilty of doing it too
(Red’s Dad) No!
@@pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 I was half joking haha.
Korey is apologetically black @@SerenityAutumn
I agree with this review 100%!! I absolutely hated this movie and the characters!! Hollywood will never let us get out of the Civil Rights Era, and I'm sick of it!! We can't evolve if you keep the same tired stereotypes going!! I'm not saying racism doesn't exist, but 90% of it is programmed Propaganda like this movie
My problem with the film is that I felt like I was watching a series of comedy skits laced with social commentary rather than a fluid story. Race was the only thing they talked about 99% of the time and it got too heavy handed. I mean I was laughing throughout the movie, but still.
Chris's face alone through out this vid gave his review lol
Eddie Murphy still a comedy legend regardless if this movie is good or bad
Nobody said otherwise.
Agree! I was so excited to see him when he showed up. And then I heard the bad writing/jokes they gave him 😮💨 and even still…u saw how brilliant he is…even with shit material
It was cute
@@ivnwng agreed. Nvr thought his status as a comedic legend was ever in question.
No one is beyond reproach. This movie is just as unnecessary as the one where he cross dresses in a fat suit, forgot the name
One thing that bothered me about the movie, we as Black ppl are very accepting (we may talk shit on the side lol) I didn't see that at all. The mother of Jonah was trying, she went about it the wrong way but trying. I was excited about this movie because of Eddie. Didn't like the movie 🍿 The writer's are Jonah and Kenya so maybe this should be the last one they do together 🤣
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I don't know i feel like the new age woke people are just taught to hate others because their group of people was/is oppressed, and others weren't/aren't.
apparently we're supposed to stay separated and segregated and continue to have problems with each other. that way we will be too distracted to solve any of the real problems in the world!
Accepting, sort of, we just tolerate a Lil more.
That's so annoying! Bring your white bf/gf/bff/roommate/teammate/whatever at a cookout and you'll have the aunties overfeed them 😂
We are not mean! The way Eddie's character was like "Oh so you like soul food huh?" toward Jonah wasn't even realistic. Since when do we care about that? I have never seen black people being mad because white people like fried chicken.
@@FKA91 lmfao! yeah, exactly.
My family's from Detroit and we've always been a big mix of different races, religions, nationalities, and sexual orientations and we got nothin' but love for each other! All this highlighted racial tension going on in the US lately is wild to me! it's totally opposite of my life experience and I hope people can come together and stop the bullshittin' 😂
33:17 David ducovne had that dad grass. Lol
It was okay. Not a fan of Jonah Hill and would've preferred his involvement stay off screen. Eddie and Julia made me laugh a few times and were the only reasons to watch.
This movie seemed like a long Blackish movie and then I found out Kenya Barris directed and cowrote it with Jonah Hill.
Andrew Schulz should've played the main character. No offense to Jonah but he looked older than Julia Louis-Dreyfus that played his mother. Also Nia Long should've been in more scenes
I caught some of this while my parents watched it, and it's weird how much Jonah Hill's character lies. Obviously, that's to set up some jokes but it made it hard to root for the couple.
Yeah that should’ve been the main reason for the breakup.
This movie was written by people who only experience racial adversity on Twitter. They don't go out in normal society and have never interacted with a human they weren't related to.
It’s kinda hilarious and sad that there was no discussion of Lauren London’s performance
Yes her acting was soooo bad. But she never could act tho.
Cuz we know she wasn’t hired for her talent. What else can you say?
It's funny because Eddie Murphy's wife is white.
He has been married to a white woman for years so maybe he's come in contact with people like the character that he's playing.
There are definitely people like that. My area is very like that, unfortunately. It definitely exists. Not everyone, but a lot. Too many. The de-facto segregated setup of the city doesn’t help. I think my city ranked pretty high on a most segregated top list done when I was in HS. Within the top 10 out of 50.
"Guess Who" with Bernie Mac/Ashton Kutcher already did this better.
Big respect for the open conversations on this show.
I was rollin' when Elaine accidentally snatched off ol girl's wig🤣🤣🤣 This movie had such Guess Who's Coming To Dinner envy it wasn't funny. That whole scene with the rehearsal dinner was so painful I needed Tylenol after watching.
Tacky
@@tmmartinesq.6216 That is the understate of the year😂
That’s not funny at all.
Kenya Barris is Tyler Perry from Earth 466B.
😂
I FOUND THIS MOVIE SOOOO SAD! I cried at the fact that there ARE people these STUPID... I WOULD NEVER watch it again - the CRINGE was toooooo MUCH!
I felt the same. I want to review too, but I I wouldn't watch it again. I liked it though.
@@Justaliljellyfish, Maybe after some time, when the political climate won't make me cry like a 2-year-old girl with a tantrum... oh wait... I'm a drama queen, so I Might NEVER see it again!
The funny thing is they do this repeatedly and you have every person under the sun defending it….by the trailer i saw were it was headed and in also a huge Eddie Murphy fan….there is hardly a movie he has that I don’t rush out to look at…but this one the writing was on the wall to were i new to skip it….if more people call out these type of movies even against “MEDIA” opinion….the movies will start to change until then….every time they do it a little bit and get success they think they could continue doing it smh…..but i know naturally when we call it out were every buzz term that no longer means anything so what do i kno
In the middle of watching this trailer I just said "oooohhhhh....it's one of THESE movies. *Groan".
To add to Korey's point about the black character being such an asshole, of all people Mike Epps even had to say "whoa there..."
I watched about 1/2 of this movie and walked out of my living room
I stopped at the 25 minute mark. It was awful 😖
Walked out of your own living room? Brutal.
I have met well-meaning, cringe, awkward people like Julia. I cannot say the same about Eddie's character.
Iol I’ve met both in my dating experience prolly why I like this movie more than others.
Eddie just seems bitter and angry that his daughter would dare marry a white guy
There’s definitely ALOT of black people like Eddie Murpheys character lol 😂.
Facts ! I’ve met a lot of women like her . And a few people like Eddie character .
My mom is like Shelly but in terms of giving you information dumps in terms of her conspiracy theories! And there's a reason why my family will never meet my partners simply because my mom will eventually say something racist bigoted or sometimes even worse because that's how she is. I learned that lesson 10 years ago when she tried to set me up with people that she would get green-eyed babies for her "investment"
I shall deal with their family a hell of a lot more than them dealing with mine lol
sorry to hear lol.
My mom is like that, too. She used to be really cool until she fell down the maga hole.
Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner Part 3?
Part 2 = Bernie Mac & Ashton Kutcher?
Poitier still the G.O.A.T. 6:03
man, Jonah Hill turned down the role of Penguin in Matt Reeves' Batman because he doesn't like being cast for his weight. And after working with Scorsese and directing movies like Mid 90's I thought he was becoming a LOT more choosy with the movies he makes.... So whhyyyyyy is he in this crap? Eddie's a name he wants to work with, no doubt, but Jonah had to know from the jump that this was going to be bad.
Korey at the end 😆😆😆
😂 😂 Korey you are these people
Damn chris looks like jonah hill from this movie.
The average UA-cam or TikTok skit maker is 1000x funnier than these big budget Hollywood movies.
Facts
Hahaha the double toasted is more funny than this movie
Mad TV and in living color is what taught me how to see color 😎😂🤣
I felt like his dad and her mom and their siblings were really underdeveloped
I gotta be honest, I didn't entirely hate the film. But there were moments that kinda really got on my Nerves. And I'm kinda with Korey on this, with a minor difference. I DID Find all the characters annoying, save for 2.. and it wasn't the 2 Korey chose either.
I personally found The BFF to be completely annoying, and predictably NPC in her dialogues. And The Dad, Jesus.. of course the wife gets away with acting like like that, the dude is just as clueless.
The ONLY 2 characters that I liked are His sister, and Her Uncle. Because they felt real. They honestly feel like real people who are just caught up in wack situation and are confronting the root causes of it.
I liked this movie as a black woman. Not as a comedy but as a romance. But it did annoy me how the black characters were constantly offended over everything, seeming like you have to walk over eggshells around us. However, I have had awkward encounters like that in real life with white women like Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ character, so I at least understood that. It’s not that these white characters are dumb, but out of touch, which reflects real life. They don’t see black people as normal human beings so they act awkward. Even then I wasn’t an a**hole to them like in this movie.
I used to be nice but I got tired of that crap real quick. I’m not an a-hole, but I’m not sticking around for very long. It’s so disrespectful.
Well as a Jewish woman I can say that I get the same lack of understanding from black people. Jews aren’t “white”
Also, Korrey - A+ on sliding in the advertising, well done Sir LOL
This movie looks like it was inspired by the one scene from 22 Jump Street where Ice Cube flips out on Jonah Hill for dating his daughter.
It feels like Kenay Barris is steady trying to convince us that he's black and as black people WE DO NOT CARE SIR just make funny movies and keep it moving😑
Minister Louis Farrakhan has more comedic timing and subtly than Eddie Murphy's character.
Lol!!
I come from a mixed race family, and I married an Australian with gay parents. None of this resonated with me. It’s nothing new and lots of films have done it better. There were some funny jokes but my overall impression was that it was stupidly and unnecessarily blunt, predictable and reinforcing some really tired stereotypes and missed an opportunity to be infinitely more creative in how they brought something new to this very old story. The road to ruin was paved with good intentions and this was an embarrassingly cliched, lazy attempt, and so removed from any sensible reality for the pursuit of the easy joke, it became a parody of itself. How can you make a bad movie with Jonah Hill, Eddie Murphy and Julia Louis Dreyfus? Yes we know characters like this exist, we’ve all met them, but it’s the same joke the whole movie, and it gets just as tired as dealing with it in real life.
A series of forced cringe moments that could've been avoided if Jonah Hill's character didn't feel to lie every time someone spoke.
I didn't see a trailer for this, I swear based on the pictures I thought this was a gay romance between Eddie Murphy and Jonah Hill. I am not joking
Now that would've have been 🤣🤣🤣👍 and sooo much better!
Don’t disrespect Eddie Murphy like that! What’s tf is wrong with you? Go find some respect somewhere about urself my goodness!!
Gotta Love Korey.. Movie Critic that never knows the names of the actors in the Movie. 😁🤣 Ease up on The Dad Grass KC. 😂
Eddie Murphy's character reminds me of my friend's dad. He converted their family from Islam to a church that was basically Islam+Jesus)
He saw me with a white guy and wouldn't even speak to me.. And someone who is like that isn't going to suddenly change because of a speech and a conversation with their brother. Also, it's just not funny to see someone be that hateful.
Bottom line: Kenya Barris is a terrible "creator" and it irks me that he's the one they give these platforms to.
I agree with everything here and I probably would've hated if not for that gummy. But that gummy, tho. I loved Martin's comparison with 'meet the parents' and literally everything else he said- totally right about the formula. The story does seem forced - the last act is thrown in as an afterthought, like they took the storyboard section summary and just had them act those words out literally. The gummy of course had me thinking "oh they're going to take it like" rather than the clear intention from Ezra (eating his foot) and his mother (doesn't even realize the foot should be there). I didn't mind Eddie's character - the role of his wife seemed weird. I expected her to be the natural voice of reason, at times maybe upset because enough was enough - but knowing and telling Eddie at the very least he is 'also wrong'. Also I had no idea if David Duchovny was supposed to seem ignorant -he seemed to be ignorant to his wife's words but mostly he seemed just like an old dude trying to be cool, which I had exposure to because that was my father. I feel like this was Tyler Perry level work? But for people who like kinda dumbed down comedies - like if a joke needed explanation for 1/5 the audience they add the subtext for that joke.
This did seem like a slightly different, but much more forced version of "The Proposal." The problem being, that I felt like here the family made it hard to follow the main couple. And I did resent Fatima, because Ezra was apologizing for his parents lack of awareness constantly.
The throttle of cringy, but well meaning white folks - which have way too much access to internet slang and hardly any actual real life exposure. And then the problem of culture, where the things we are passionate about may not coincide with how people see us.
I loved the movie. I think Julia D's character was a bit too on the nose, I mean there were at least two points in the movie where I was like "oh she's not doing this on accident, she's actually really racist" but..I also feel like most of the conversation would have played out like that. It was almost a vehicle for someone like me, who probably isn't that bad but may be perceived like "did he really just say that, that was on purpose".
I also think we might not say it out loud, the idea that "finally it's not just white people" would not escape us behind closed doors.
For Eddie on the other hand, I mean the Islam thing is huge, the idea of not being black but being a part of hip hop culture influencers. So while he seemed like the bad guy to me - an atheist - the religion thing especially is a hard thing to get past. "Why do you want to marry my daughter, and you don't even believe in Islam - hell you're Jewish, and you probably don't believe in any Abrahamic religion - do you?"
I really enjoyed it. I'll never watch it again, As the whitest person someone could possibly be, but still say that RA the Rugged Man is his go to personal GOAT in Hip Hop. Also, UNCOMMON VALOR. The best.
I felt at the time it was like a 7/10. Now I think it was probably a 3/10 that I enjoyed because of environment, that actually had a lot of potential. Because the dynamics between friendship with people with far different cultures is interesting and I love it as much as I fear it sometimes. It would've been a way better movie if that was explored at a different pace, and at a higher level.
I definitely got the sit com vibe. Like wtf was up with the scene transitions?
Funny part is Lauren London is actually half white lmao
And jewish.
@@Namqula yes! I should’ve mentioned that
KENYA - NO MORE MOVIES!!!!!
This movie would've been fine for 1990's. It's so out of touch now with troupes that seemed out of touch even for the 90's.
Yeah this film looks like something I would not want to watch at the moment. The commentary seems too heavy-handed, the characters don't seem likable or aren't portrayed well, and the comedy seems hit or miss.
It's funny Korey compares this to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, which they already remade as Guess Who with Ashton Kutcher, Bernie Mac, and Zoe Saldana and even that couldn't live up to what that film was.
Sidenotes: Chris almost does look like Jonah Hill here lol, and I agree with Chris that a lot of modern media seems to rely on empower color people by making white people look dumb (it's similar to the trope of empowering women by having the men look dumb or incompetent). I feel that way about "Black media" sometimes where they often portray the white characters stereotypically ignorant, unaware, or not getting it. As opposed to showing the ones who do get it or at least are empathetic. You don't need to empower one group by tearing down the other.
It’s not about being “D*mb” it’s about being tone-deaf and because it’s a COMEDY, it’s exaggerated. Unfortunately as a black man I’ve experienced a lot of the tone-deaf racism that was on this movie and some of it wasn’t far removed from what happens in the movie. Especially in the workplace
Same here but were those incidents ever funny? They're just uncomfortable.
Did you just censor yourself?
As a Jewish person I experienced this a lot from every other ethnic group. Everyone hates “the jooooos”
I remember watching this with Bernie Mac and the dude from That's 70s Show.
Guess Who with Ashton Kutcher and Zoe Saldana with the funny man Bernie Mac. I liked that movie. It was much more believable.
The movie wasn't a 10/10, but as a white dude who's married to a black woman, I think it captured the experience well. The core message (at least to me) was pretty realistic, at first my parents weren't sure how to treat my wife, and my wife's family was apprehensive about me. It's about not judging a book by its cover.
Was the movie preachy? Yes, but you have to keep in mind that Akbar (Eddy Murphy) is a member of the Nation of Islam, and is "friends" with Louis Farrakhan, a literal black-supremacist, anti-white, antisemitic preacher (seriously look this guy up)... Him and his wife are going to be preachy, the point of the characters aren't to push an agenda, its to satirize and show how black people can also be ignorant and racist.
The Jewish parents weren't stupid, during the dinner scene their reaction is appropriate to finding out they're having dinner with someone who's prize possession was a hat, given to them by a well known and vocal antisemite. When it comes to how they treated Amira (Lauren London), they weren't stupid, they were well intentioned, Shelly (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and Arnold (David Duchovny) both attempted to "relate" to their daughter in law, but in trying to relate to her, they ended up alienating her and making an ass out of themselves. This kind of shit happens, the first time my mom met my wife, she asked if her hair was real.
As people who can relate to the struggle of the main characters, the movie was fucking hilarious for my wife and I.
I hated this movie. I saw your video of the review on a thumbnail in my feed and decided to check it out. I could not get through the movie. I came back to see what you guys thought. Me personally, I hated it. It was uncomfortable, cringy and offensive due to the heavy social engineering. Everything the mass media want us to think was in this movie. It has the same feel as velma. Social engineering is getting out of hand in movies. Before they would sprinkle it here and there, now they are just putting it in our face and force feeding us this crap. The whole black woman and white man agenda is annoying. Why don't they let things happen organically rather than force interracial marriages on us. I don't care about it, but they way they do it is condescending.
Bet if it was just jokes u would like the movie
@@dwaynejpeterkin it's too much social engineering. The jokes weren't funny
@@hawkeyes2814 it can’t be a laugh out loud movie they are trying to tell u about racism there’s people that go through things like this yet u want it to be a comedy plus some parts were funny other parts no
@Dwayne J Peterkin not buying your strawman. The movie has way too much social engineering. I did not like it.
@@hawkeyes2814 it wasn’t that bad
Aaron Mcgruder and Ryan Coogler tried to writer and director coming 2 America for Eddie Murphy. When he turned them down i know Eddie was done making good movies.
U make him a good movie then since u know so much
For real????