All the characters, of course, are just ludicrous cartoon composites of angry social media cliches. The writers were so lazy they have Akbar take Ezra to a black neighborhood pick-up game to embarrass him (spoiler: portly 5’7″ white men can jump). Any real meditation on race, especially a funny one, would take work.

Hill and London have some pretty good chemistry. And if the movie focused on the struggles of building a life despite cultural differences, it might have been interesting. Instead, “You People” — which I watched because the preview featured perhaps the only funny scene in the movie — is just aggressively offensive. Not because it insults us, but because it pretends to take on the thorny questions of race when in reality it reinforces crude and idiotic stereotypes that divide us.

Now, I would spoil the end of this alleged romantic comedy, but just envision the most cliched third act possible. On his podcast, Ezra finally makes an impassioned speech in which he claims black and white people can never truly understand each other. It’s bad enough that the lesson of the movie is that immutable physical characteristics should define people, but, let’s just say, the movie doesn’t even have the guts to take its premise to a logical conclusion.

[I’m not sure I’ve seen the trailer that David describes; I haven’t found one with *any* genuine laugh. It’s sometimes unfair to judge films by their trailers, but this one has all of the hallmarks of an uncomfortably embarrassing effort at comedy that I usually like to avoid. — Ed]