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The_Film_Cricket Ten seconds into Peeples, I realized that I had boarded as sinking ship. In the opening scene, Craig Robinson is revealed to be a guy who sings to kids at the library, but the song he's singing is called "Speak It! - Don't Leak It!" which, if I understood correctly, is a song that encourages the kids to express their emotions rather than urinating on things. Why? Why sing that song? What is the message? Why would anyone allow him to sing that song? I know I'm being over-analytical but it gets the movie started on the wrong foot. What's worse is that this song provides the movie's payoff.Peeples is an unbearable comedy; a movie hammered together out of spare parts from better comedies and laid out on a foundation borrowed from failed sitcoms. It has the kind of dialogue that sounds weird without a laugh track and a plot that ebbs toward Meet the Parents but doesn't even bother to come up with any jokes or any genuine feeling for any of the characters. It's a shooting gallery, a joke is set up and knocked down. There is no attempt to pull the comedy from human nature.Robinson plays Wade Walker a nice guy from New York with designs on being a child therapist. For some time he's been dating Grace (Kerry Washington), and wants to take their relationship to the next level. Wade wants so badly to propose that he walks around with the ring in his pocket 24/7. There's just one little hitch: Grace hasn't told her family that she's dating him. Why? Simple. The plot needs her to keep Wade a secret so all kinds of hi-jinks can take place over the course of a weekend. She's headed off the Sag Harbor for a Moby Dick celebration (you can guess where that idea is going) but wants him to stay behind.Not to be outdone, Wade crashes the proceedings and hi-jinks ensue. Grace's family is a bizarre mix, and not in the good way. Her mother Daphne (S. Epatha Merkerson) is a former disco diva who overcomes her alcoholism by smoking pot. Her sister (Kali Hawk) is a CNN anchor and closeted lesbian who travels around with her camerawoman/partner Meg (Kimrie Lewis-Davis) but hasn't given the news to the family even though Meg spouts poetry at the dinner table about being intimate with her. Her brother Simon (Tyler James Williams) is a math genius and kleptomaniac with designs on being a thug. Then there's Virgil (David Alan Grier) a federal judge who is a perfectionist and a lion when it comes to protecting the family – even in places where it isn't needed. He's a bitter old snort who regards Wade like a cockroach.I don't know exactly how to describe the next 90 minutes. It's the kind of disjointed, unfunny series of shenanigans and hi-jinks that would kill a sitcom in the pilot. The jokes are designed to make Wade look like a jerk while we wait for all of the family's secrets to come spilling out of the closet. What is troubling is that the movie has no narrative flow. It feels like just a series of set-ups and put-downs that seem to have been written by different people on different days and then just hammered into the script.There are plot points here that are brought up and have nothing to do with anything. For example, Wade hears that Virgil is going to play at a local jazz club. He goes to the club and finds that Virgil isn't there. He looks for him and finds him headed for a nude beach. The joke, of course, is that Wade is devastated to have seen Virgil's testicles. But the scene goes nowhere. He returns to the house, doesn't tell Grace about it and then it's not brought up again until a vague explanation at the end. There's no comedic payoff and the scene is just left laying there. There are at least ten scenes like this, but no attempt to really deal with anything. The movie shoves the characters through a series of comic sketches but the screenwriters seem to timid or too lazy to deal with these people as people. What's worse is that there is a genuine bad feeling from this cast. No one seems to want to be here. The characters are written as petty and hostile and indifferent to one another. This movie is an unpleasant experience.So, is the movie funny? No. I smiled once, at a line from Robinson about Uncle Ben and Bojangles. Other than that, I mostly regarded this film with blistering indifference. Doing research before the movie, I wasn't surprised to find that Peeples is a Tyler Perry production. Perry is this century's P.T. Barnum, a talentless charlatan who has turned a lack of any writing or filmmaking skill into a billion dollar enterprise. People flock to his movies presumably to have a good time but what Perry gives them is the same kind of garbage that the audience would turn off if they caught it on television.Thus far, I've seen three films that he's been involved with - Tyler Perry's Single Moms Club, Tyler Perry's Temptation and Peeples (I don't count Star Trek) - and I find them painfully unwatchable. All three seemed to have been written and produced with the kind of grace and ingenuity of that urination song that Robinson sings at the beginning. This movie is aggressively bad.

merle moran What kind of judge has a huge estate that rivals anything available in Beverly Hills, CA? Has he got something going on the side? We never know. The premise of the film is thin and moves at break-neck speed, perhaps so viewers won't recognize the story-line is bereft of focus. There's little for the viewer to connect with.The rookie director just didn't bring out actor-ability or premise texture. You just wanted to grind ahead, hoping something up front would be better than the humorless scenes that passed. Even Tyler Williams (from TV's "Everybody Hates Chris") seemed out of place and overdone. The film really needed the likes of ice Cube to loosen it up and send it on a much more plausible and amusing entertainment trip.A funny film?? Who says? ~mm

callanvass Wade Walker (Craig Robinson) is madly in love with girlfriend Grace Peeples (Kerry Washington) He wants to propose, but Grace is heading out for the annual Peeples reunion with her family. Wade is rather suspicious about things, and decides to crash the party. Wade immediately gets off on the wrong foot with Grace's dad (David Alan Grier)Come on Tyler Perry, you're better than this. His films always have people divided in half, but this just screams unoriginality. I couldn't help but pine for Meet the Parents when watching this movie, which this movie blatantly tries to emulate. Craig Robinson is essentially Ben Stiller, while David Alain Grier is Robert DeNiro. Even the brother Simon Peeples (Tyler James Williams) is Jon Abrahams from Meet the Parents. I don't mind homage, or a tribute, but put some effort in! I didn't laugh once during this movie. It surprisingly refrains from crudity a lot of the time, but I was so appalled at the lack of originality. Meet the Parents wasn't perfect, but at least it was funny. Craig Robinson doesn't have enough charisma to get this movie over the hump. He isn't a good enough actor to be convincing in the emotional scenes, and he's not funny enough to command the attention of yours truly. I felt no sympathy for him what so ever. I know Craig has his fans, but to me he's just another unfunny comedic guy to make it big in Hollywood. Kerry Washington is much better than the material deserves. She's gorgeous, and a good actress to boot. David Alan Grier tries to do a DeNiro to no avail. He's very serious for most of the duration, with a few goofy scenes here and there. I didn't like him at all. Final Thoughts: Watch Meet the Parents, and leave this one be. Those that think I'm being unfair by calling it a rip-off have every right to think that. But watch it for yourself. You can't help but notice it! 3/10

Ms. Review Last I could not help but notice a post that read "Peeples" should be rated R for "lesbian situations." Exactly what is that supposed to mean? What if I said it should be rated R for heterosexual situations? Does that make any sense? It sounds weird. I wonder if this person goes around throwing the rated R sticker on movies just because they have lesbian characters. That is bigoted. Same-sex attraction is not just an adult thing and there is nothing wrong or inappropriate about being a lesbian.Now to my review: Wade (Craig Robinson) is trying to find the perfect time to propose to his girlfriend Grace (Kerry Washington) but has no luck. When Grace visits her family in the Hamptons, Wade decides to show up by surprise and meet the family himself.I enjoyed seeing Craig Robinson and Kerry Washington in the movie "Peeples". I thought it was funny. I took my mom to see the movie on Mother's Day and she loved it. One of my favorite scenes was when Grace tried to introduce Wade to her parents.I believe the PG-13 rating fits the movie. I notice some people on here would beg to differ.There are no nudity or sex scenes included. There is this one scene where Wade has Grace over his lap and he is spanking her, but that's about it. This movie does a perfectly good job at binding everything together to form a family comedy to enjoy. I plan to see this movie again.(Ms. Review is a 25 year old female who writes short stories on her free time.)