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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 08 May 2013

Despite the derivativeness, Chism shows talent and shrewd instincts in the timing and direction of the comedy — she handles the requisite…

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By Robin Clifford (1,670) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 May 2013

Newcomer Chism does a decent job eliciting performances from her actors but should have given the writing task to a more experienced scribe…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 08 May 2013

Grier plays the part of the pompous patrician with superb finesse and dry wit, easily the movie's highlight…

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By Rafer Guzman (1,080) for Newsday (2,345) on 08 May 2013

Peeples is a just-this-side-of-legal knockoff of Meet the Parents, altered only by minor script details and an African-American cast…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 08 May 2013

A pale remake of Meet the Parents with an African American cast, and it's the cast that makes it tolerable…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 08 May 2013

The elements are all there. They’re just thrown together in haphazard fashion…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 08 May 2013

Comedies about privileged princesses and unsuitable suitors come in all colors, but Peeples is only palatable on a double bill with pink antacid…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 08 May 2013

Director Tina Gordon Chism, who also wrote the screenplay, seems to have relied pretty strongly on Perry for guidance…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 08 May 2013

The laughs follow an overly familiar path, but it’s great to see Grier, one of the bright lights of the seminal TV sketch comedy “In Living…

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By Matt Pais (1,519) for RedEye (906) on 08 May 2013

Incorporates not one but two unintentional drug trips, which I think is a button on screenwriting software that automatically writes generic,…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 08 May 2013

Chism's cast is game for her shenanigans, and the biggest pleasure of Peeples is watching them cut loose under her direction…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 08 May 2013

If Peeples had more bite, it might pass for an underhanded critique of its producer’s work…

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By Peter A (501) on 08 May 2013

Surprisingly amusing in a Meet the Parents sort of way. Genuine laughter from start to finish…

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By Zachary Wigon (46) for Village Voice (8,525) on 07 May 2013

While she doesn't quite achieve the screwball zaniness she strives for, Chism deserves commendation for crafting a farcical work that feels…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 07 May 2013

Director Tina Gordon Chism keeps the innocuous class-meets-crass jokes bubbling, and the actors are amiable, but Peeples often seems to want…

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By David Germain (226) for Associated Press (1,685) on 07 May 2013

These all are amiable people, decent people, sometimes funny people. But unfortunately, the peeps of ''Peeples'' just aren't very memorable people…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Time Out (7,510) on 06 May 2013

Defined by Three’s Company–grade humor, this attempt at male-anxiety cringe-comedy is little more than a sitcom writ large that — courtesy…

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By Chris Cabin (484) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 06 May 2013

Tina Gordon Chism's film collapses into a series of clumsy improvisatory sketches, tied up in cheap, risibly sentimental catharsis…

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By Travis H (484) on 06 May 2013

Craig Robinson & David Allen Grier are hillarious! I cant wait to see this! Some people on here are complaining about originality…

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By Sheri Linden (962) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 05 May 2013

The film’s first half is a slog as Chism sets up the minefield for Wade, with every (fully visible) mine certain to explode…

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