YMMV / You People

• Anvilicious: Jonah Hill's character basically spells out the message of the movie for you after the climax where he and Amira break up for a while.
• Broken Base: Some people hate it due to the flat execution of the storytelling and the blandness of content. The people who love it are more drawn toward the messages.
• Don't Shoot the Message: Many viewers felt that while the film's ultimate messages about finding common ground with different groups and accepting your children's life choices were good Aesops, the execution left much to be desired.
• Harsher in Hindsight: At one point, Amira's mother argues that Jews don't have to worry about violence the way that black people do. The same day that the movie came out, seven Jews were killed in an anti-Semitic terrorist attack in an Israeli settlement.
• Special Effects Failure: Jonah Hill and Lauren London didn't actually kiss on set during the wedding scene. Instead, VFX was used to bring the actors' faces together but London's face clearly clips into Hill's despite the use of CGI petals to try and obscure the effect.
• Uncertain Audience: The movie is torn between being either a standard romantic comedy or a poignant drama with resonating social commentary, and it never really does have those two sides reconcile into one coherent whole.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Many viewers found Akbar to be a very unsympathetic character for the simple fact that he's a devout member and follower of the Nation of Islam (and its leader Louis Farrakhan), which has been recognized as a hate group by several civil rights watchdog groups. While the film does acknowledge his treatment of Ezra is wrong and he ultimately does give his blessing to his and Amira's union, the fact that this doesn't extend all the way to him recognizing the NOI's teachings, particularly its anti-Semitism, are wrong and renouncing them rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

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