Why is this film rated R? Language?

Positives:

👏🏾 👏🏿 👏🏽 Uniting the Black and Brown awks!!!! Issa Rae (who portrays Leilani) has been the one constant throughout my 20s; from “The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl” to “Insecure,” sis has often been my inner voice. And Kumail Nanjiani (who portrays Jibran) has been outchea bit-roling his way onto several comedy series, to starring in a leading role on “Silicon Valley,” to securing an Academy Award nomination for his semi-autobiographical film “The Big Sick,” and now (the Internet’s boyfriend and)  Marvel’s first South Asian superhero. I just… 🎉 🎉 🎉

👏🏾 👏🏿 👏🏽 Both Issa and Kumail got EP credits for this. #resumebuilders

👏🏾 👏🏿 👏🏽 Super side note: can Issa and Kumail drop their skin care regime? Is it hereditary? Like, what in the hell is the makeup? I need to know. Pores just invisible to the naked eye, bih. I’m jealous.

👏🏾 👏🏿 👏🏽 Silly, fun movie.

Moments of 🙁🥱☹️😒🥴:

🙁 You could literally watch the trailer and pretty much see the movie without giving up 86 quarantine minutes. All major plot points and jokes are in le trailer.

😒 Cool story, not mad at the screenplay. It was time for a rom-com in 2020. But, uh, it’s a generic rom-com-mystery, y’all. These formulaic rom-com are produced every year for a specific audience. This year, though, a studio caught up with the inclusion/diversity/representation matters bit and greenlighted this film to bring different audiences to the theater. #allforit #wouldvesupportedregardless #queenissa👸🏾 #kingkumail🤴🏽

🥱 I could pluck any two comedians of different races and plop them into this movie. Something about the “falling-in-love” montage in the intro did not feel authentic, and the chemistry just fell flat throughout. Like, I didn’t need an interracial dating crash course, but I would’ve loved like two jokes max to call it out and let it go. And the beard joke at the diner doesn’t count.

🥴 I could tell some of the jokes were Kumail’s throwaways from stand-up. The milkshake analogy. 😒😒😒

☹️ So the plot hole during the conclusion: wouldn’t the crooked cop have seen that both Leilani and Jibran’s wrist ties were undone as they were getting out of the car and while they were walking in front on him on the pier? Like couldn’t he see them shuffling in the car to put the cigarette lighter plug back in the outlet in the center console??? Am I crazy? 🤨