The new addition to Tyler Perry’s Madea films disproves the theory that drag is inherently funny. Perry plays the title role of the potty-mouthed, fried chicken-obsessed matriarch of a dysfunctional family. When Shirley (Loretta Devine) finds out she’s dying, she tries to reunite her children with Madea’s help —the rest is a hodgepodge of uninspired […]
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Madea Goes to Jail
It’s easy to dismiss Tyler Perry’s movies as cheap and preachy, but they need to be viewed in a full audience to be appreciated. Seeing Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail revives a sense of film-going as a social experience. He deals with relationships in spiritual and broadly comedic terms, and audiences are invited to […]