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Meet the Blacks

R

Released Apr 1, 2016

1 hr. 33 min.

Comedy

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17%

12 Reviews

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72%

5,000+ Ratings

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When some unexpected money comes his way, Carl Black (Mike Epps) moves his family from cold and windy Chicago to bright and sunny Beverly Hills, Calif. As the Blacks settle into their beautiful new home, they start to notice some strange behavior in the neighborhood. Nighttime is approaching, and President El Bama (George Lopez) announces that the annual purge is about to begin. Carl and his loved ones must now endure a 12-hour period of lawlessness before they can enjoy life once again.

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janet s

funny ash !!!! one of the top comedy movies !!! micheal blackson is my fave LMFAO!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/14/24

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Gaming U

Super funny movie overall

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/04/24

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Sarah B

Don't normally love horror, but once I started watching this movie with some humor involved I couldn't stop watching! It scared me one minute and made me laugh the next, so I was able to sleep! I truly enjoyed it. Also comedy horror genre shouldn't terrify you —to the comment before mine.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/24

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Mecca M

Super funny. Not a movie for squares

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/05/24

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Elijah B

Fantastic cast with actual moments to make you laugh

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/02/24

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phillip o

This is so bad it's strange. I wasn't sure what to expect but it felt really wrong to even watch it fully.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/03/23

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Deon Taylor

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Mike Epps

Carl Black

Gary Owen

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Bresha Webb

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Christy Lemire

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The movie as a whole is such an incompetent train wreck, you can't look away, just to see how much worse it can get.

Rated: 1/4

Apr 3, 2016

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Jesse Hassenger

AV Club

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.

Rated: D+

Apr 3, 2016

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Keith Uhlich

Hollywood Reporter

Wrongheaded, utterly incompetent, and nearly laugh-free ...

Apr 1, 2016

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Mark H. Harris

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And the sad fact is it's so obnoxiously awful, you'll wish it was actually another Madea Halloween.

Rated: 1/5

Jan 7, 2020

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Debbie Lynn Elias

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Raucous and riotous and irreverent with off-color language to make some toes curl, this is one funny, funny, funny, funny movie!

Rated: 3.5/5

Nov 5, 2019

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Micheal Compton

Bowling Green Daily News

"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.

Rated: F

Jan 15, 2019

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Synopsis

When some unexpected money comes his way, Carl Black (Mike Epps) moves his family from cold and windy Chicago to bright and sunny Beverly Hills, Calif. As the Blacks settle into their beautiful new home, they start to notice some strange behavior in the neighborhood. Nighttime is approaching, and President El Bama (George Lopez) announces that the annual purge is about to begin. Carl and his loved ones must now endure a 12-hour period of lawlessness before they can enjoy life once again.

Director: Deon Taylor
Executive Producer: Mike Epps, Michael Finley, Tony Parker, RZA, Venu Kondle
Screenwriter: Deon Taylor, Nicole DeMasi
Distributor: Freestyle Releasing
Production Co: Colgems Productions
Rating: R (Pervasive Language|Drug Use|Some Sexual Material|Violence)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 1, 2016, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 2, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.1M
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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