Overly didactic and lacking in subtlety, You People still reminds us that Jonah Hill could lead a comedy in his sleep. aurora_amidon's review:
Ezra Cohen , the hopeless romantic co-host of a podcast about Black culture, spends his days wondering when it’s his turn to find love. He has nearly given up on this pursuit when, lo and behold, Amira , a beautiful Black fashion designer, falls seemingly straight from heaven and into his life.
Of course, this noble quest proves to be anything but smooth. Ezra quickly clashes with Amira’s parents: Stern, devout Muslims Akbar and Fatima . And from painfully awkward family dinners to one particularly difficult to watch bachelorette party, hilarity swiftly ensues.dials the film’s stakes up even higher.
Director Kenya Barris, who co-wrote the script, injects an energetic, kinetic flavor into the film, shrewdly maintaining a buoyant energy through quick cuts and pump-up music that makes laughs come easily. But Hill steals the show.
Hill’s unique talent for playing a character who incessantly talks himself into a hole carries much of’s comedic success. Following closely behind is Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays Ezra’s upper-class, wannabe progressive mother with a queasy, Selina Meyer-esque disposition, plastering her trademark uncomfortable smile across her face every time she compliments Amira’s hair or rants about police brutality.is as effective as these two.
With their meet-cute rooted in conflict, this is quite a gap to ask us to fill on our own. This is especially frustrating given that other elements ofare exhaustively hammered home. The third act screeches to a halt and loses almost all of the subtlety it had painstakingly assembled, as the characters talk at length about their conflicts and say the things that had previously been lingering artfully between the lines.
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