‘Meet the Parents’ meets ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ in Kenya Barris’ first feature, co-written with star Jonah Hill.
The dynamite opening scene is a convo about “the culture” between Hill’s Ezra Cohen, aka E-Z, and his podcast partner, Mo . Their unorthodox observations snap, crackle and pop, and their best-friend chemistry is undeniable.
Both Ezra and Amira are, in a way, trying to escape boxes — in his case, Shelley’s buttinsky maternal vision of what he needs, and in Amira’s, the righteous intrusions of her rigidly principled dad. Akbar Mohammed enters the film to a James Brown number, clad in a message sweatshirt . Glancing around a hip Baldwin Hills café, he tells Amira and her brother, Omar , “I’m starting to hate the world more and more each day.
But in their comparatively brief screen time, the other Mohammeds and Cohens offer delicious grace notes. Nia Long is formidable as Amira’s mother, Fatima, and also gloriously over-the-top, at one agitated point offering a history lesson in the form of “the slave receipts in my purse.” For his part, Duchovny’s Arnold launches into an unasked-for rendition of a John Legend song, his way of relating to his son’s girlfriend.
Like many a rom-com, there’s a fairy-tale element here — namely, that this young couple buys a house in 2023 Los Angeles. Still, production designer Maxine Shepard brings Amira and Ezra’s home to vibrant life, infusing the place with their creativity and the vitality of their love but not overdoing it. The same goes for Michelle Cole’s terrific costumes, treasured kicks included. As for the larger setting, there’s plenty of love for L.A., both Westside and South, in Barris’ vision.
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