What a bizarre movie 'You People' is. There is no level I can think of that it works on. It isn't funny, it isn't romantic and it isn't thought-provoking. It's just unpleasant - and long.
The first problem with the movie is that the relationship the whole film is based around feels completely forced. There is zero chemistry between the two leads and I never for a second believed that they were actually in love with each other.
Then you've got the problem that the film doesn't know how to create a realistic situation. Scene after scene feels forced and unearned. No one in the world interacts this way, but apparently every single person in this movie does constantly.
Then the final nail in the coffin is that the film is never funny. I've said before that I think Jonah Hill is the funniest of all the comic actors working today. But you still have to give him something to work with. It's like the film thought it could just point a camera at him, poke him with a stick and say, "be funny."
The fact that you have comic talent like Eddie Murphy at your disposal and you never once get a laugh out of him in almost two hours of runtime is criminal and proves that the film had no idea what it was doing. This was a complete misfire. 4/10.
The first problem with the movie is that the relationship the whole film is based around feels completely forced. There is zero chemistry between the two leads and I never for a second believed that they were actually in love with each other.
Then you've got the problem that the film doesn't know how to create a realistic situation. Scene after scene feels forced and unearned. No one in the world interacts this way, but apparently every single person in this movie does constantly.
Then the final nail in the coffin is that the film is never funny. I've said before that I think Jonah Hill is the funniest of all the comic actors working today. But you still have to give him something to work with. It's like the film thought it could just point a camera at him, poke him with a stick and say, "be funny."
The fact that you have comic talent like Eddie Murphy at your disposal and you never once get a laugh out of him in almost two hours of runtime is criminal and proves that the film had no idea what it was doing. This was a complete misfire. 4/10.