I'd never heard of the film until a podcast I listen to were singing its praises for this very reason. So I checked out the trailer and it looked hilarious.
I recommend it. The slamming of woke white liberals is a key theme, played against a complex, nuanced family and character drama. Be prepared for both. Monk’s family is highly educated and professionally accomplished, beset by myriad life issues that have absolutely nothing to do with being black. The topline theme is a protest against the relentless stereotyping of the black experience to fit a reductionist CRT political narrative. Basically, these are people who have moved far beyond an obsession with race. They are content of the character/meritocracy oriented people. Maybe the thematically best line occurs in a Barnes and Noble, when Monk goes hunting for his book and finds it in the African American section. He scoops up an armful of books and moves them to the correct area — with the other intellectually serious fiction — and in the process unloads on a hapless clerk, who tells him that the placement is a corporate decision: “the only thing black about my book is the ink on the page.”
And who is responsible for the stereotyping? Well, you know the answer. Apart from said hapless clerk, the white characters are drawn from the worlds of academia, publishing, and the movies — and they are complete idiots. Beautifully done. The trailer leans hard into this parody of woke liberalism and doesn’t prepare you for the family drama, partly to avoid spoilers and partly (I suspect) because the parody is so hilarious. But the serious and comic themes, however, complement each other. It’s a sophisticated balance.