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You People | Film Review

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  I had seen a lot about this film in the lead-up to it being released, and honestly, I wasn't going to watch it because I really didn't think I'd like it. But I decided to watch it on a whim, just to see what it would be like. An interracial couple meets each other's families and has to contend with their fundamental differences, and whether they can still be together. This was actually a lot better than I thought it was going to be. It wasn't amazing, but it definitely wasn't awful. The cast is great! The film stars Jonah Hill, Lauren London, Eddie Murphy, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Nia Long and David Duchovny amongst a bigger group of great actors, and they really made the film what it is. Some of the humour feels a bit on the nose - like you can imagine the writers getting excited when they were coming up with some of these jokes. You can hear what the joke is supposed to be, and how the audience is supposed to react, as opposed to that reaction being genuine. The...