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While planning her family reunion, a pistol-packing grandma must contend with the other dramas on her plate, including the runaway who has been placed under her care, and her love-troubled nieces.
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| Film ThreatMatthew SorrentoAll the while Madea's wit, which is refreshing on the stage, feels spurious and often misfires. |
| Reel Times: Reflections on CinemaMark PfeifferIf Tyler Perry worked in construction, he'd use a sledgehammer when a tack hammer would get the job done. At least that's the impression given by his didactic film. |
| Movie MomNell MinowThis happy mash-up of romance, drama, low comedy and high drama works because it is all tied together by Perry's open-hearted conviction. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanLet's not sell Tyler Perry short. As the vinegar-witted Madea, he's a drag performer of testy charm, but in his overlit patchwork way he's also making the most primal women's pictures since Joan Crawford flexed her shoulder pads. |
| Zap2it.comDan FienbergMadea is meant to be a communal experience. But a critic's job isn't to judge how a movie plays in an ideal viewing. It's to look at the movie. Madea is dismal. |
| FilmJerk.comBrian OrndorfMadea is one extended, brutal soap opera, stacked with mediocre actors in an endless "smell the fart" acting contest (Lynn Whitfield wins), and kills any chance for important messages to be taken seriously. |
| L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonMadea's a riot, but what makes this richer, more textured follow-up to "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" so fascinating is the way Perry - a first-time director adapting his own hit play - shifts on a dime from a silly fart joke scene to one of intense, Sirkian melodrama. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisPerry is a playwright, and his dialogue here is usually entertaining. |
| Village VoiceJim RidleyPerry's vaudevillian shamelessness and indifference to committee-approved taste are energizing and frequently jaw-dropping. |
| Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesPerry's soap opera story lines are awful, with their nobly suffering sistas, gorgeous do-right men, and shamelessly materialistic dream endings. But the movie's message of gospel joy and racial pride couldn't be more sincere, and Perry gives an impeccable comic performance as the title character. |