Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

a review.

this is a wonderful movie i absolutely love tyler perry because he captures black families exactly how they act and doesnt spare any details. Every black family has a MADEA! September 18, 2008

loving Tyler Perry!!

Tyler Perry is my absolute favorite person in the world. With every new release, he gets better and better! The world would do well to adopt his sense of humor, sence of right and wrong and compassion. September 2, 2008

It has so much potential, yet it falls short

Let's start with the positive.

Tyler Perry is an ingenuous storyteller. This fact screams out loud and clear through his work. He grabs many controversial aspects of both Black and non-Black culture, mixes it together, and throws it back to the audience. Only brave creators can pull this off successfully, and Perry is definitely brave.

Now moving on to his movie, Madea's Family Reunion. This movie made me think about abusive relationships, love, family, and togetherness. Plus, the character Madea offered some very good advice that anyone can use in their daily lives. For example, she told her foster child Niki that the best think she could do is prove her previous foster mother wrong by studying hard to become more intelligent than her classmates. Also, she told Vanessa that you can only help those who want to be helped. Every character plays their role effectively, expect one, and this is where we move to the negative part of the review.

Joe is a useless and offensive character. I understand that Perry is using him as a comic relief, but Madea fulfills that role already. So why is he there? This character downplays the seriousness and emotional moments in every scene that he is in. For example, when Madea was spanking Nikki for skipping school, he laughed and clapped as if it were entertainment. Also, during the reunion he has one of his female family members bend over and grab him a drink while he was lusting over her body, and if that wasn't bad enough, he tries to discouraged Frankie from marrying Vanessa twice just because she has two kids. Joe is disgusting stereotype, and he needs to be erased from the Madea trilogy.

This movie has a outstanding plot, it's just too bad that this character Joe distracts you from it. Therefore, this movie only gets three stars from me.

By Sabrina P. August 12, 2008

laughing and learning

It's a comedy. It's learns that if we have time and patience we can make children be succesful in their career. Madea saves a child in the old ways (not that that has to be done, nowadays). But she shows her love in her own olf fashioned way and save a child future. It's hilarious, laugh, laugh, laugh.... I recognized the same lines in his other works. So it seems as if I knew some parts of the movie. Feed back for Tyler: be more creative. You can do it!! A very funny movie. July 19, 2008

Not What I Thought

I have seen all of Tyler Perry's films, not including "Meet the Browns", and I have to say this is possibly my least favorite. I simply did not think much of it; it wasn't exciting, there was too little of Madea, the storyline of the mother letting her new husband rape her child with a different man was fairly impossible to believe (though I admit not completely impossible) as was the mother's personality (I find it hard to believe someone is THAT evil-hearted). I like Tyler Perry and I like his films. This one was not a bad film as I do not regret the time I spent watching it, in other words, it was entertaining enough. Just the sweet bus driver who is "really a good man" and the evil husband/fiancee was done already in "Diary of a Mad Black Woman". I guess while there is quite a bit to enjoy about this film (mostly Madea and Uncle Jim), it just doesn't feel fresh enough. But perhaps what I really expected was a pure comedy from Tyler Perry, and what I got was yet another morality play.

Nonetheless, Perry fans will enjoy this film. Like all of Perry's films, the music was superb. And like other reviewers have mentioned the "Grits and Al Green" scene was so perfect! If your interested in any other Perry film, I have reviewed/discussed them all except "Daddy's Little Girls" (which happens to be my favorite), just click on my "Real Name" and look for the films. I am also reviewing/discussing all of Spike Lee's films, who as you probably know is a dramatically different African-American director. April 15, 2008

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