SEXTUPLETS

US, 2019, 97 minutes, Colour.
Marlon Wayans, Bresha Webb, Michael Ian Black, Glynn Turman, Debbie Morgan, Molly Shannon.
Directed by Michael Tiddes.

The Wayans family have contributed a great deal to American entertainment, especially spoofs and satire is, over many decades. While their appeal is initially to an African-American? audience, they have quite a broader following in the United States as well is overseas.

Marlon Wayans has stood out for the number of feature films he has participated in, send ups of the Screen franchise with a range of Scary Movies, parodies of other genres, including the 50 Shades erotica.

He has a very loyal following – but many audiences have found his fairly unsophisticated and broad humour, and sometimes questionable taste, not to their liking. He is not high on critics rankings of comedians and comic filmmakers.

This is probably the same with sex templates – although it does give Marlon Wayans the opportunity to portray the six grown-up children as well is their mother! Interestingly, the central sex template, Alan, seems a fairly normal person plunged into a whole lot of complicated and sometimes absurd situations. (A variation on this theme is his Robert, but will immediately acceptable, in Naked.)

Here Alan is happily married, his wife about to give birth. He wants to know something about his birth family and persuades his father-in-law, a judge, Glynn Turman, to getting the information which he does rather instantly. The shock is that he has five brothers and sisters and then goes in pursuit of them.

He has the opportunity to do a brother who eats too many sweets and has lived with their mother, a fat suited sometimes bumbling character. Another brother is a conman variation on Alan who intrudes into the family, especially to Alan’s wife. There is a very your brother, diminutive, and Alan finds himself trapped into contributing a kidney – with the invalid jetting off to Cuba to raise money for his health and medication. Another brother is rather prissy and actually works as a secret agent. Along with all of these is a very large sister who is spent some time in prison and, literally, throws her weight around. And, finally there is his mother who seems a variation on Loretta Devine (who was his mother in Naked).

Lots and lots of slapstick. Lots of pressurised situations on Alan and his being forced to go to places he wants to avoid. Caricatures of the other sextuplets.


So, probably only for those who are Marlon Wayans’ fans.

An IMDb quote:
Look, I want to be able to make the stupidest movies ever, because they make people laugh and they make money. But that's not all I want to do. And I think I've proven to some people — the ones paying attention — that I can do more. Everybody else, well, they can wait and see and make up their mind.