Kenya Barris directs Jonah Hill, Lauren London and Eddie Murphy in this romantic comedy where an interracial couple do an awful job of navigating their parents’ predjudices.

There’s actually quite a sweet if laboured romantic comedy in the first act. Jonah and Lauren London have millennial chemistry. Once we get into Guess Who’s Coming For Dinner 3.0 territory it just never really reaches a comedy boiling point. Eddie feels underserved in a role I suspect was written with Denzel in mind. And then it goes on forever. I watched for Hill and Murphy… they never aren’t watchable but your expectations are so much higher for what laughter should be generated from the pairing. And while the racial element feels all over the shop the generational anxieties have a certain degree of truth. The forced editing (slow burn scenes shift abruptly with a shock of quick location flashes) is irritating and disruptive.

5

Perfect Double Bill: Cyrus (2010)

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