trailer

https://youtu.be/pCMHc-IFAB0


https://www.okayplayer.com/culture/you-people-netflix-kenya-barris.html

Watch Eddie Murphy Put Future Son-in-Law Jonah Hill to the Test in ‘You People’ Trailer


JAELANI TURNER-WILLIAMS

Jaelani Turner-Williams is a contributing news writer for Okayplayer

Starring Eddie Murphy, Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Nia Long and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, You People premieres on Netflix January 27.

We’re just weeks away from the highly-anticipated Netflix release of the new Kenya Barris comedy You People. On Thursday (January 5), the streaming platform released a three-minute official trailer for the upcoming film, which follows Ezra Cohen (Jonah Hill) mistaking Amira Mohammed (Lauren London) for a rideshare driver and ultimately starting a relationship with her.

Along the way, Cohen decides that he’s ready to propose to Mohammed, although neither partner has met each other’s families. The two are both tested by their respective families, with Ezra’s “progressive and semi-woke parents” (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and David Duchovny) showing microaggressions toward Amira, while Amira’s “unyielding yet concerned parents” (Eddie Murphy and Nia Long) have contempt toward Ezra.

“Oh, so you’re all Muslim,” Ezra’s mother says at a particularly heated part of the trailer.


“Very much so,” Amira’s father, Akbar Mohammed (Murphy), responds.

“This kufi that I’m wearing was actually a gift from the Honorable Louis Farrakhan,” Mohammed continues. “Are you familiar with the minister’s work?”

“Well, I’m familiar with what he said about the Jews,” Ezra’s mother says in return.


London, who last starred in the limited Netflix series True Story, spoke with Netflix’s TUDUM about the ensemble cast, saying: “These collaborators are masters at their craft. You have Eddie Murphy and Julia and Nia Long and David Duchovny and Jonah Hill — and Kenya as the captain of the ship. Everyone brought in their specialness and their art.”

Watch the full trailer below.


https://youtu.be/pCMHc-IFAB0

there was NO chemistry between the central romantic figures. all the acting was strong, some points could have been made with more nuance and subtlety, but pretty entertaining.

At its best when it's letting its stars-- especially Jonah and JLD-- do what they do best. One of my bigger gripes is the movie makes Murphy more or less the straight man, so he has to button down his natural charisma. A few times he gets to banter with Hill a bit, and you really start to see Eddie the Star come out, and those are his best moments.

But once we start getting closer to the wedding, it becomes increasingly far-fetched, the editing gets real choppy (scenes just kind of end out of the blue), and the ending obviously is completely unbelievable. And a 2 hour run time for a comedy like this just... isn't the move imo.

Good amount of laughs though, especially in that first half. Just a shame about the rest of it.

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It had its moments, I did laugh a few times but overall it was kinda eh to me.

“So back we go to these questions — friendship, character… ethics.”

I've seen plenty of "mismatched" couples in real life, it's just the fact that they ever even made you feel like they dug each other like that.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/02/06/lauren-londons-kiss-with-jonah-
hill-in-you-people-explained/

Which has to be one of the most bizarre things ive ever seen CGI used for. Like, why???

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/you-people-jonah-hill-lauren-london-kiss-cgi-1235320295/

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And in no way believable.

Had some solid actors though.

If nothing else.

But yeah overall...meh.

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