
The Black family is getting out of Chicago in hopes of a better life. After Carl Black (Mike Epps) comes into some unexpected funds, he takes his family and leaves the hustling lifestyle behind for something better. Carl, his new wife Lorena (Zulay Henao), son Carl Jr., daughter Allie Black (Bresha Webb) and cousin Cronut (Lil Duval) pack up and move to Beverly Hills. Turns out, Carl couldn't have picked a worse time to move. They arrive right around the time of the annual pu... (Full plot summary below)
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The Black family is getting out of Chicago in hopes of a better life. After Carl Black (Mike Epps) comes into some unexpected funds, he takes his family and leaves the hustling lifestyle behind for something better. Carl, his new wife Lorena (Zulay Henao), son Carl Jr., daughter Allie Black (Bresha Webb) and cousin Cronut (Lil Duval) pack up and move to Beverly Hills. Turns out, Carl couldn't have picked a worse time to move. They arrive right around the time of the annual purge, when all crime is legal for twelve hours.
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| Bowling Green Daily NewsMicheal Compton"Meet the Blacks" can't decide if it wants to be a straight-up parody of "The Purge" films or some kind of acidic satire of social class structures and perceptions. It fails miserably at both. |
| EricDSnider.comEric D. SniderA careless, mostly unfunny mix of slapstick, insults, racial humor, toothless satire, and semi-horror. |
| AV ClubJesse HassengerIt’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. |
| Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichA wrongheaded, utterly incompetent, and nearly laugh-free satire. |
| The GuardianJordan HoffmanMeet the Blacks is an asinine film (though with a kernel of seriousness) but whenever it feels like it is running out of steam, something strange and surreal will happen to elevate it above a typical spoof movie. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireEven by the standards of raunchy, comic spoofs, director and co-writer Deon Taylor’s film feels especially scattered. |
| Common Sense MediaSandie Angulo ChenNearly unwatchable "The Purge" parody is crass, forgettable. |
| Flickering MythRobert KojderWithout a shadow of a doubt, Meet the Blacks is one of the worst movies this year so far, hell, it might be one of the worst movies of all time. There isn't one funny line of dialogue or gag in its entire 93 minute running time |
| Baret NewsKam WilliamsAlas, an expletive and N-word laced descent into modern minstrelsy. |
| User ReviewBenjamin LVery funny parody. Lots of racial humor that may be offensive to some - things you'll laugh at but feel guilty for doing so. It was very good for a parody! Overall a good laugh. |