Eric Stevenson
The only reason I watched this movie was because I thought it set the record for longest Midnight Screenings by Brad Jones. Turns out I was wrong and it was actually the original that set the record. This Midnight Screenings was still over an hour long. To pour salt on my wound, I ate out there at the theater even though I already had! Dang, that food's expensive. I'm digressing, so let's get back to this movie.I had hard horror stories about the Tyler Perry movies. There just seemed to be an endless amount of them and I guess I'm glad I saw at least one of these dumb things. My first impression of Tyler Perry in a film was actually "Gone Baby Gone". What do you know, he was a good actor in that movie! This movie features him taking on the roles of various family members in drag reminded me of Eddie Murphy only not funny. You know, like Eddie Murphy now. Anyway, the film centers around his daughter going to a midnight Halloween party and seemingly confronted by supernatural creatures. The end reveals it was just a prank by her father. There's one scene where Madea puts her hand through the Grim Reaper's face and touches its real scythe. If this was all a prank, how did that happen? It was nothing but these same people making these dumb jokes over and over. It just seemed to go on forever with how pointless and unfunny everything was. *
popcorninhell
Ten films in, it's pretty much assumed by now that the Madea series has shaken off any audiences who don't already want to be on its coattails. Those in the theater with me wanted to be there and damn all those who, like myself, would snap-judge Madea and her posse of octogenarian clowns. Screw those who poo-poo the series for being painfully unfunny, offensively trashy, unendingly annoying, obnoxiously time consuming, woefully amateurish and elementally lacking in the basic necessities of competent storytelling. For even if you think all these things, you still must admit, if nothing else, Tyler Perry's wildly successful, cheaply made, broadly drawn comedy series has legs that just won't quit.So for a change, I'll dispense with the usual five minute set. I won't complain about how unfunny this particular film is as claiming so can be waived off by someone else managing a slight chuckle. I won't complain about the disjointed, obvious and boooooring narrative which chugs along like Madea's Cadillac on a flat tire. Heck, I won't even talk about how every time a Madea flick comes out, seeing the crowd makes me question human behavior to the extent that I feel like the proverbial next door neighbor saying, "He was so very nice – no idea what could have gone wrong." Instead I'd like to focus all my attention (and vitriol) on Tyler Perry's apparent lack of respect for his audience; a lack of respect that, more than ever feels gross and mean-spirited. Before watching Boo 2, I ascribed to the same school of thought as Demetria Lucas D'Oyley when she wrote for The Root, "He has a lane. He drives in it." The appeal of his characters and his outsized media persona is one of broad stroke buffoonery and simple-world proselytizing but at least he's found his fans and they've found him. Marriage made in heaven with the same level of intensity as Insane Clown Posse and their Juggolos.Yet by the time the film drops its first plot point, it becomes clear the love is all one-sided. Nearly everything of substance from the first film has been erased; the lessons, the character dynamics, the film's very continuity all heavily favoring a hard reboot where nothing about Boo 1! (2016) actually mattered. The movie then strips out all of the forced religiosity save for a few God d**ns which, for better or worse, made Madea part of a certain audiences' normal media diet.Lacking a plot at all capable of filling in the one and a half hour run time and all that's left to pad this largely melted s**t sundae is Perry mugging for the camera as one of three insufferable characters. This wouldn't be such a problem for fans accustomed to the constant barrage of b***hing and nagging. But most of what is said are quite literally rewrites of the same tired jokes we've heard in Witness Protection (2012), Big Happy Family (2011) and for that matter, the first Boo! There's even the reoccurring "she's really a dude" gag that's repeated not once, not twice but three bloody times! I'd say it's lazy but given how absurdly repetitive this all is, I was half expecting Sacha Baron Cohen to come popping out of that dress saying, "gotcha!" All this and add to it Perry's obviously censored d**ns, f**ks and s**ts and you got yourself a movie that is daring longtime fans to abandon Perry's media empire built on lazy, terrible stereotypes. And what's left when all that bilious smoke has cleared? A quickie cash grab haphazardly assembled with no interest in delivering the minimum, let alone a worthwhile product. Comparatively this thing is somewhere between Madea Goes to Jail (2009) and one of Tyler Perry's bowel movements after one too many Arby's Beef 'N Cheddars. And that my friends, is about as objectively critical as one can be without screaming at the box office numbers and questioning whether there is a God.
p-83477
I would have loved it if the prank was for real. How Madea would real act when scared for real. What i didn't like : 1. Joe is too much and is no longer funny.The teenager with her friend, were very boring.The whole movie was disappointing. The turn around of the ex wife was very not genuine. I would have loved to have seen more drama on that and also when Perry heard that his ex allowed the daughter to go for a party, i have loved Tyler not to be part of the prank and also Tyler not to let the daughter go easy. Bottom line drama was not there and the bit that was there was not interesting.
mts-91319
Concur with other reviewers! Definitely not worth paying full price for. If it wasn't Tyler Perry, I would believe it was just a money grab?? Oddly, my family and many of the audience laughed a lot but not his best work and not half as funny as original. Even Hattie couldn't save this one, sniff sniff
