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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

French miss: is the future of movie kissing in jeopardy?

Jonah Hill and Lauren London in You People.
Jonah Hill and Lauren London in You People. Photograph: Parrish Lewis/Netflix © 2023

As a film, Netflix’s You People raises all manner of questions. Questions like “Do we really need an update of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner in 2023?” and “Shouldn’t a 2023 remake of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner have more to say than this?” and “Shouldn’t the leads of an expensive streaming romcom have more chemistry than Jonah Hill and Lauren London, two actors who for much of the film look like strangers who literally just met in an elevator and don’t particularly like each other very much?”

But the question “Did they actually kiss?” probably shouldn’t be one of those questions. Because, after all, we can see that they do. Right at the end, Hill and London get married, and they lean into each other, and they kiss. Confetti falls from the sky and lands on them. A supporting character even negatively critiques the kiss, pointing out that Jonah Hill is using more tongue than is generally considered acceptable. Regardless of anything else you think about the film, which should be a lot because it isn’t very good, they kiss at the end. They definitely kiss.

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