Peeples Reviews
Top CriticWhile she doesn't quite achieve the screwball zaniness she strives for, Chism deserves commendation for crafting a farcical work that feels like it concerns real characters.
"Peeples" may appropriate its entire premise and plot structure from "Meet the Parents," but its heart is suffused with French cinema.
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An amusing, if not exactly original, African-American variation on Meet the Parents.
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| Original Score: 2/4
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At times, Peeples says so much about communities and foundations built and enhanced by future generations that you wish it also didn't bend over backwards to present gags about nudist beaches and threesomes...
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| Original Score: C+
In essence, the film is a cross between Meet the Parents and an Adam Sandler idiot-in-a-china-shop comedy.
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| Original Score: C+
These all are amiable people, decent people, sometimes funny people. But unfortunately, the peeps of ''Peeples'' just aren't very memorable people.
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| Original Score: 2/4
The performers are up to the wacko task. But one of the movie's key problems is that it only pretends to let loose, its calculated absurdity firmly tethered to the life lessons that lie in wait.
Defined by Three's Company-grade humor, this attempt at male-anxiety cringe-comedy is little more than a sitcom writ large ...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slant Magazine
Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
