What a great movie, I really enjoyed it. If you haven't seen this movie yet, you should go out and rent it. It's a good one.

madea (the character itself, not necessarily the movies ) kicks ass! all the side plots and shit tend to be on the boring side for me. especially in madea goes to jail, but all of madea's scenes are funny as shit . my fave in this movie is when she beats up that kid on the bus . classic!

punkofthemonth said:

I was cracking up laughing as that scene was taking place. Madea is one tough lady in that movie; she doesn't take crap from anybody.

psychodelicide said:

and she starts imitating oprah in the color purple for no reason . "all my life i had to fight!" i died laughing when i first saw that shit too . i was a fan after that

punkofthemonth said:

I can see why people like Tyler Perry, he's funny as heck when he plays the role of Madea. Shoot, now I want to go out and rent all of his movies, check them out.

I've only seen bits and pieces of it but I can tell you that I thought it sucked. I only watched it to look at the good looking people but I couldn't possibly care any less about what was actually happening in the movie.

JustErin said:

It really is a good movie. But I know that not everybody has the same taste in movies.

He LOVES the whole "Battered woman" theme, dont he?

MuthaFunka said:

He need do a movie starring my man Leroy Brown.

MuthaFunka said:

It's called milking a demographic... I hate that man's films.

psychodelicide said:

It's true! And Tyler's point is that there was a time when all of our grandmothers and older aunties kept the families together and kept us all in line, and ddn't take crap from any of us! Madea is Perry's relic of and triibute to that bygone era .

StarMon said:

I haven't seen this, but isn't he featured in this one?

StarMon said:

I never noticed that, but then again, this was the first "Madea" movie I have ever watched.

ThreadBare said:

Ottensen said:

Agreed, that how I see it too.

chocolate1 said:

Looks like the same guy.

JustErin said:

Maybe u can try watchin the stageplay version. I thought the stageplay was better than the movie.

JayJai said:

I'll bet the stageplay version was pretty good. I forgot they made the movie into a play.

I didn't like it at all. I didn't laugh once.

alwayslate said:

alwayslate said:

Not even ONCE??? SERIOUSLY???

JayJai said:

That's what I was wondering too.

ThreadBare said:

I don't even know if it's that. It just seems has this affinity for domestic violence.

Tyler Perry has been famous long enough for me to properly critique he and his movie/TV shows. If he were just an actor that stuck with the Madea character as his only trick, He would still be funny and well known but the act would get old and he would have to make up something else. As for the movie, I thought it was poorly written and had a simplistic plot. Perry would help himself to learn how to really hone his writing skills and character development to make the movie more beleivable. Case in point, the women who was the ADA was too over the top in her snobbishness and scheming to ever had made that far. The crime she commited was too wild to believe, no one would have gotten away with what she did.

I don't dismiss his success as a fluke because he's been doing it long enough to earn his status, any director worth their salt would love the level of success he has, His movies make a profit. I would like for Perry to develop better strories that aren't so preachy and simple.

psychodelicide said:

I absolutely hated that movie. Honest.

The only Tyler Perry movie I like is Why Did I Get Married. I watched that a couple of times.

As for "MFR" itself, I didn't vibe it too much. The storyline was so much like "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" that it kinda went bland on me. Then there was the strange and creepy scene where Madea's brother and cohorts were salivatin' over a young, female relative in booty shorts at the family reunion. Kinda creepy. Had some good laughs at times though.