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40How much of this is actually funny is a question of taste, but even a confirmed Perry hater might get caught laughing once or twice.
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20The film is slapdash entertainment not meant to be further contemplated after leaving the theatre.
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50Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report. People who want to watch it are going to do so, regardless of what anyone says about it. And that's not even factoring in Charlie Sheen.
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Jun 29, 201240Perry's latest is crudely assembled and mostly emotionally unengaging.
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Jun 29, 201230A spectacularly slapdash and wearingly half-hearted effort from the prolific writer-director-actor, lacking energy, structure or common sense.
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Jun 29, 201240With Tyler Perry gradually segueing toward non-drag leading man status with "Good Deeds" and the upcoming James Patterson thriller "Alex Cross," his latest appearance as the sassy, wisdom-dispensing matriarch of the title in Madea's Witness Protection has an aura of fatigued reluctance to it, as does the film itself.
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40While I fully support the appearance of a new Madea movie every six months, even Tyler Perry can't be bothered to take this setup seriously.
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Jul 1, 201250He's still a young guy, but all throughout Witness Protection I imagined Perry sitting glumly at a dressing-room mirror, like the aging Chaplin in "Limelight," forlornly rubbing makeup in his face - a tired, old clown stuck in a tired, old routine.
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Jul 1, 201275The film remains buoyed by the same open heart that makes Tyler Perry's best work so endearing.
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50There aren't many laughs in this vaudevillian gambit, and fewer still in the fish-out-of-water comedy of Madea hosting a rich white family that's chiefly concerned with yoga, wi-fi, and their carb intakes. Still, Perry remains a true outsider artist-nobody makes movies like his. (And please don't try.)
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50Madea is starting to look a little tired.
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50A comedy that's too late to the Ponzi-scheme party to be topical, and not outrageous enough to take advantage of its own setups.
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Jun 29, 201240The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing.
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60The interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny.
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60An agent of spiritual regeneration and showman, Perry's dramaturgy is as subtle as a Bible-thump, but until a logy last act that has Levy disguised as a faux-Frenchman, his instincts are on-target here.