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Lionsgate Films | 2016 | 90 min | Rated R | Aug 02, 2016

Meet the Blacks (Blu-ray Movie)

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Movie rating

4.6
 / 10

Blu-ray rating

Users5.0 of 55.0
Reviewer1.5 of 51.5
Overall3.4 of 53.4

Overview

Meet the Blacks (2016)

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.

Starring: Mike Epps, Charlie Murphy (VIII), Paul Mooney, Zulay Henao, George Lopez
Director: Deon Taylor

Comedy100%
HorrorInsignificant

Specifications

  • Video

    Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
    Video resolution: 1080p
    Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
    Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

  • Audio

    English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

  • Subtitles

    English, English SDH, Spanish

  • Discs

    Blu-ray Disc
    Single disc (1 BD)
    UV digital copy

  • Packaging

    Slipcover in original pressing

  • Playback

    Region A (locked)

Review

Rating summary

Movie1.5 of 51.5
Video4.0 of 54.0
Audio4.5 of 54.5
Extras2.0 of 52.0
Overall1.5 of 51.5

Meet the Blacks Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman August 10, 2016

The Purge would seem to offer boundless opportunities for parody treatment, and that evidently is what Mike Epps sought to do with Meet the Blacks, an intentionally provocative supposed comedy that posits the comedian as a paterfamlias who more or less steals a bunch of mob money and hightails it out of Chicago with his family to the ostensibly greener pastures of Beverly Hills. Unfortunately for Carl Black (Epps) and brood, it turns out The Purge is on the schedule and not even the high falutin’ types that frequent Rodeo Drive and vicinity can protect the Black family from the maelstrom.


There evidently is an audience for fare like Meet the Blacks, at least as evidenced by the enthusiastic user review already added to this title by one of our members, but my hunch is unless you’re amused by near constant use of the “n” word and similarly nonstop blue dialogue that seeks to evoke laughs through shock, much of Meet the Blacks’ “comedy” may fail to really resonate. The film lurches pretty unevenly from vignette to vignette, and kind of like any given episode of Saturday Night Live, occasionally the “skits” do have a laugh or two (Carl, Jr.'s delusion that he's a vampire has a couple of decent bits), but this is a largely wasted effort that never mines sufficient comedy gold to support an already pretty flimsy premise.

Lest those who agree more with the user review than my assessment think I'm off my rocker (get in line on that one), my colleague Brian Orndorf was evidently even less swayed by the film than I was. You can read Brian's pretty withering take on it here.


Meet the Blacks Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality  4.0 of 5

Meet the Blacks is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Lionsgate Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.40:1. There's no technical data online that I could find about this shoot, but this sports a generally very sharp and well detailed appearance that looks digitally captured. Detail levels pop best in the bright southern California sunshine, as should be expected, but they remain commendably high even in the long dark night of "the purge", sequences that tend to be minimally lit at best and which at least occasionally take place in near darkness, though there are understandable deficits in detail levels in the darkest moments. Fine detail is excellent in close-ups, and contrast is consistently maintained throughout the presentation.


Meet the Blacks Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality  4.5 of 5

Meet the Blacks' lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 gets a decent workout when the film's score is pumping out generous doses of low end activity, and a couple of raucous sequences once the purge gets underway provide good surround activity. Dialogue is cleanly presented and everything is well prioritized, though the film's tendency to throw simultaneous dialogue at the wall in order to see what sticks makes catching everything that's said a little bit of a challenge at times.


Meet the Blacks Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras  2.0 of 5

  • The Making of Meet the Blacks (1080p; 14:52)

  • "Hit the Gas" Music Video (1080p; 6:00)

  • Behind the Scenes of "Hit the Gas" (1080p; 5:01)

  • Don't Hate Wiring! Parody Commercial (1080p; 00:38)

  • Outtakes (1080p; 00:50)


Meet the Blacks Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation  1.5 of 5

Fans of Epps or other players in this film may find enough (if just barely) to warrant checking this out, but the comedy is hit or miss at best and that simply may not be enough, especially given the obvious talent involved and the ripe pickings that ridiculous premises like The Purge offer. Technical merits are strong for those considering a purchase.