Meet the Blacks is a 2016 American comedy film directed by Deon Taylor and written by Deon Taylor and Nicole DeMasi. The film is a parody of the 2013 film The Purge. It stars Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Zulay Henao, Lil Duval, Bresha Webb, George Lopez and Mike Tyson. The film was released on April 1, 2016. It received negative reviews from film critics and it adds Golden Raspberry Awards of the Dishonorable mentioned for the worst picture and worst screenplay somehow that is Dope (2015) and The Purge knockoff by the parody kick out of the Bones.
About that film also a cinema films that The House Next Door:Meet The Blacks 2 released in June 11, 2021 while it first of 5th Anniversary of Meet The Blacks.
Plot[]
Carl Black and his family are getting out of Chicago. After having stolen a lot of money from a famed criminal drug king, Key Flo (Charlie Murphy), and believing that he will be imprisoned for the next five to six years, Carl Black (Mike Epps) leaves the hustling lifestyle behind for something better. Carl, his new wife Lorena (Zulay Henao), son Carl Jr. (Alex Henderson), daughter Allie Black (Bresha Webb) and cousin Cronut (Lil Duval) pack up and move to Beverly Hills. Turns out, Carl could not have picked a worse time to move. They arrive right around the time of the annual purge and all Carl's personal issues intertwine while all crime is legal for twelve hours.
Cast[]
- Mike Epps as Carl Black
- Gary Owen as Stranger
- Zulay Henao as Lorena
- Lil Duval as Cronut
- Bresha Webb as Allie
- George Lopez as President El. Bama
- Mike Tyson as James Clown
- Shawn Kavanaugh as Marcus
- King Bach as Freezee
- Charlie Murphy as Key Flo
- DeRay Davis as Tyrone
- Lavell Crawford as Parole Officer
- Perez Hilton as Denis Strahan
- Michael Blackson as Mr. Wooky
- Tameka Cottle as Shoranda
- Kathrien Ahn as Ming
- Snoop Dogg as Todd
- Tyrin Turner as Big Head Rico
Release[]
It release in April 1, 2016 on theatrical release by Freestyle Released
Home Media[]
This film also confirmed available on DVD and Blu-ray will be August 2, 2016 beginning to the side.
Reception[]
Box Office[]
In its opening weekend, early tracking suggested the film would gross $4–5 million from 1,115 theaters in its opening weekend, and was released alongside My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2. In its opening weekend the film grossed $4.1 million, finishing 8th at the box office.
Streaming[]
In January 2021, it ranked fifth on a list of the most streamed films on hulu.
Critical response[]
Meet the Blacks received negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 13%, based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 2.2/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 26 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". The Herald & Review named Meet the Blacks the fifth worst film released in 2016.
The Guardian gave the three out of five stars writing, "While there is a whiff of social commentary in this low-budget spoof of the 2013 horror The Purge, only a comic performance from Bresha Webb provides any impact", saying that her performance was "so unpredictable and versatile it virtually makes up for the film’s many dull patches."
The Truckee Sun gave the film an F, writing, "Given the family's chaotic and disagreeable state, we have every reason to hope they are purged along with this movie that ought to have been killed months before it reached any cinema." The Citizen Times wrote, "In the hands of gifted performers, this open approach has the power to inspire in-the-moment hilarity often greater than the best lines and gags cooked up by the film’s creators, but no individuals who fit that description are present here." The Arkansas Times wrote, "Movies don't come much worse than Meet the Blacks, and when they do, they tend to go straight to video. At this quality level they tend to slink beneath the classification of movie per se, because technically they're just some dude screwing around with a camera and his buddies so he can get better at Final Cut. There are many markers of the overall badness of Meet the Blacks, but none perhaps more damning than George Lopez playing a character named President El Bama, maybe the funniest thing in this film's 90-minute run time."
Substream Magazine described the film as "criminally bad [...] an alleged horror-comedy that fails spectacularly at being either one of those things. Carried by a funny, yet uninspired Mike Epps, the films [sic] tries to reinvent the parody genre with a lazy and uninspired take on The Purge franchise that is dead on arrival." The Hollywood Reporter called the film "a wrongheaded, utterly incompetent and nearly laugh-free satire".
Common Sense Media called it "nearly unwatchable [...] crass and forgettable". Christy Lemire, writing for RogerEbert.com, gave one out of four stars, saying "every once in a while it seems to be trying, slightly, to make a vague point about racial prejudices and tensions. Mostly, though, Meet the Blacks is too scatterbrained to be so self-aware." The A.V. Club said the film "may not actually qualify as one after all. It’s more like an extremely confusing and sloppily written chunk of Purge fan-fiction—a tortured use of another movie’s absurd mythology to help make muddled quasi-satirical points, while indulging the apparently fail-safe punchline of saying the word “purge” about once a minute."
Sequel[]
This film also a literally Lionsgate teams with Hidden Empire Film Group while always that film was confirmed. It also a film named The House Next Door Meet The Blacks 2 was released in June 11, 2021 alongside Skater Girl, Peter Rabbit 2, 12 Mighty Orphans, Queen Bees, Domino Battle of the Bones, Censor and The Misfits. It received negative reviews from film critics as well as the most stupidest film of 2021 ever seen. Available on Digital will be July 9, 2021 and on BluRay and DVD will be August 10, 2021.