You People (2023)

	Directed by: Kenya Barris	COUNTRY USA GENRE Romantic comedy NORWEGIAN TITLE You People RUNNING TIME 118 minutes
	Produced by: Kevin Misher Jonah Hill Kenya Barris
	Written by: Kenya Barris Jonah Hill

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Ezra	Jonah Hill	½
Amira	Lauren London	½
Arnold	David Duchovny
Fatima	Nia Long
Shelley	Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Akbar	Eddie Murphy
Mo	Sam Jay	-
Omar	Travis Bennett	-
Liza	Molly Gordon	-
Demetrius	Deon Cole	-
Mr. Greenbaum	Elliott Gould	-
Buppy	Rhea Perlman	-
Uncle EJ	Mike Epps	-
Dr. Green	Richard Benjamin	-

Review

A so-called romantic comedy about cultural differences set in the midst of a hypersensitized, racialized modern USA. The story itself is about as sad as the state of affairs that it tries to satirize, and there's almost nothing funny or romantic about it, despite Jonah Hill's and Lauren London's best efforts in front of the camera. The writers (Hill with director Kenya Barris) aim to show how insensitive the boomers (the parents) are compared to the millennials (the "kids"), but it's all cliches and simplifications. And unless you're up to date on the current sociopolitical situation in the US, which (un)fortunately most people are, You People will make little sense. Another thing making little sense is the film's sudden shift in tone towards the end, when the filmmakers desperately want to show their hopes for the future. I guess their sentiment was that you can't argue with that kind of optimism, no matter how vapidly it's presented.