If there's one thing that Reunion doesn't lack, it's good intentions. Unfortunately, good intentions don't automatically guarantee a good movie.
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03/01/07
Madea's Family Reunion (2006)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:14
Rotten:38
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion is sincere in its positive intentions, but leaves something to be desired as a film.
Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Tyler Perry follows up his DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN with more of his unique fusion of soapy melodrama, poetry, spirituality, romance, and raucous humor based on his popular stage play. This time... [More]
Starring: Lynn Whitfield, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Rochelle Ayetes, Maya Angelou
Director: Tyler Perry
Reviews for Madea's Family Reunion
It's interesting that nobody ever connects the dots between Madea's frequent corporal punishment of children (which is presented as instructive comedy) and the abusive grownups who function as Perry's villains.
03/17/06
Both of the villains are so far over the top they should be in the summer Olympics.
02/28/06
If you liked it before you will like it here. If, on the other hand, you find these trite recitations of overwrought stereotypes tiresome, you've probably already avoided the previous movie and the plays and should continue doing so.
02/24/06
Tyler Perry still hasn't found the formula for combining comedy and drama
02/28/06
Nothing that happens seems the least bit believable, and everything is brash and loud. All that's missing is the laugh track.
03/10/06
While not nearly as offensive or dim-witted as Diary, this one's still a gigantic mess.
07/23/06
Madea 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.
02/24/06
The Madea franchise is premised on her excessive characterization, and audiences love the character. Still, she can be repetitive, and this film is unevenly paced and predictable.
02/26/06
This movie's trailers promise a slapstick comedy about an obese black woman who takes no guff and enjoys beating people up. It isn't exactly, and that's a disappointment.
02/27/06
Top CriticNo question, Tyler Perry knows what he's doing, and he's doing it better with each movie.
02/23/06
Let'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.
03/01/06
Perry is a shameless panderer and his movie is cliché-ridden, rudimentary, completely unfocused and about as subtle as a wind-breaking contest in church.
03/01/06
That's the most offensive thing about Madea: the way it pretends to deal with difficult problems -- child abuse, rape, spousal abuse -- and then offers simplistic answers.
02/27/06
Is "Madea" a postive move? You bet. Positively insulting to anyone who's graduated middle school and read at least one book since.
02/28/06
A generally enjoyable mess.
02/27/06
Perry has a heart as big as Madea's so, as the writer-director, he ensures his movie has the right sentiments.
02/24/06
At times it feels as if Perry made three separate films, dumped them in a blender and hit the puree button.
03/03/06
Tyler Perry's heart is in the right place, but he still has a tin ear.
03/07/06
The heavily melodramatic tone that predominates throughout much of the pic could have used more leavening with comic relief.
02/24/06
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