Review – Meet the Blacks

I’ve seen a lot of movies in my life.  I’ve seen good movies, bad movies, funny movies, sad movies, scary movies, all sorts of movies.  Movies today rarely surprise me or show me something new.  Sure, we get movies like Gravity (2013) and Birdman (2014) that blow us all away and push the boundaries of filmmaking to another level, but for a majority of films, whatever they’re trying to do has already been done.  Not saying that’s a bad thing, it just happens when you’re working in a medium that’s been around for over 100 years.

Meet the Blacks achieved something that I never thought possible.  I can honestly say, I have never seen a movie like this one before in my life.  This is the only comedy I can honestly say is laughless.  There is not a single funny moment in this film and that is a first for me.

I know what you’re thinking.  “Not once Kevin?”  “Not even a giggle?”  And my answer is nope, not one.  The closest thing to enjoyment on my face through out this mess was a slight smirk, I think.  It was either a smirk or I had an itch on my nose, I can’t say which.

Meet the Blacks is a parody of the awful yet successful 2013 thriller, The Purge.  It stars Mike Epps as Carl Black, a man who steals a bunch of money from a drug dealer in Chicago and moves his family to an extremely caucasian neighborhood in Beverly Hills.  However, the Black family moves to the neighborhood right before the nationwide purge where, like the original movie, all crimes are legal for twelve hours.  Will the Black’s survive?

The bigger question I had during this movie was how am I going to survive?  How in the world was I going to make it through this entire movie?  I think the only reason I stuck around was because of a combination of hope and laziness.  I had hope that the usually funny Mike Epps could muster up a couple quips to make me chuckle and the leather recliner chair I was sitting in was obnoxiously comfortable and I didn’t want my over-priced drink to go to waste.  This movie is stupid, racist, unoriginal, and annoying.  I could break down all the plot holes, terrible acting, overused jokes, and nonsense, but that would be a waste of all of our times.

Meet the Blacks is a whole new kind of bad.  Even terrible comedies, like the legendarily bad Jack & Jill (2011), had a couple jokes in the film that made me chuckle.  Was I expecting a comedy classic going into this movie?  Absolutely not.  But if you’re a comedy, and Meet the Blacks is classified as a comedy, be funny.  But because it is not, this is one of the biggest cinematic failures of all-time and far and away the worst movie of 2015.

MY RATING – 0/4

Will you see Meet the Blacks this weekend?  If you do, may God have mercy on your soul.  Anyways, follow Kevflix on Twitter @kevflix and on Facebook.