Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) Reviews

• Predictable Drivel

  dcarsonhagy2017-02-01

  Somebody needs to tell Tyler Perry his one-trick pony (a/k/a Madea) has been beaten to death. Boo! A Madea Halloween is a perfect example. The same recycled, hackneyed, one-note, shallow, and unfunny situations are present again--complete with the same people. At least this one wasn't about some beaten down black woman/girl who needed to find her place in the world, stand up to her man, and ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz. It is mind boggling how he can pop out these POS and always manage to attract an audience. Madea's answer to everything is violence. If that is not bad enough, Perry is now blatantly stealing comedic material from DEAD people, i.e. the line "beat her till the white meat shows" is a line straight out of the late Bernie Mac's "Kings of Comedy" routine. Shameful. And if he thinks for a minute that I believe anybody could go to a frat party and NOT find drugs, liquor, or copulation, well, he is a fool. Rated PG-13. I would rather watch a cow scratch its ass on a fence than another installment of this crap.

• Typical Ma'Dea

  ntennell2016-11-07

  This is a typical Tyler Perry movie. Either you like it or you don't. His main focus is to entertain. To make you laugh and if he can slide in a life lesson or some "Ma'Dea" wisdom on the way, then so be it. Tyler Perry doesn't let you down with his many roles as Ma'Dea, Joe and Brian. Brian is in over his head with raising Tiffany as a single parent and when he tries to forbid her from going to a college fraternity's Halloween party, all hell breaks loose. Trying to win the approval of her friends, 17-year-old Tiffany sneaks out of the house to go to a Halloween bash at a fraternity anyway. The fun soon ends when police and the cranky, fast-talking Ma'Dea (Tyler Perry) arrive to crash the party. Unhappy with this sudden turn of events, the vengeful collegians decide to scare Ma'Dea and her cronies with a series of pranks. She soon finds herself under attack and on the run from an assortment of ghosts, ghouls and zombies on the scariest night of the year. If you want a good laugh this is your movie, but don't read too much into it as far as meaning, its pure entertainment.

• awful

  mygirlucy2017-07-14

  Dear movie goer, after seeing one half of this movie and shutting it down in disgust, I am wondering what happened to the Tyler Perry who brought us Madea's Family Reunion which was hysterical, but thought provoking with a stellar cast. This was unfortunately a foul mouthed piece of garbage.

• Madea Versus Halloween

  zardoz-132016-10-24

  Any comedy about the madcap character of Mabel Simmons, a.k.a. Madea (Tyler Perry in drag), is going to be a hoot and a holler. Of course, you've got to love the loud-mouthed, browbeating, African-American matriarch as well as the gag that she is portrayed by a six-foot-five man who could just as easily impersonate Frankenstein's hulking monster. Remember, the essence of comedy is incongruity. Think of those characters that make you laugh: the clown with big ears, hands, and feet; the willowy buffoon who holds his parachute-sized pants aloft to keep from tripping in them, and the towering individual who rides around in his sleek sports car with his head and shoulders thrust through the sunroof. The humor is all about the differences in how we look and dress. Sometimes, incongruity makes us laugh. At other times, it is used without compassion to ridicule. Half of all the laughs that Tyler Perry conjures up as Madea arise from the basis that a man has decked himself out to resemble a dame. Perry isn't the first African-American to pull off this act. Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence beat him to the closet respectively, with "The Nutty Professor" and "Big Mama's House." (I'm not counting Flip Wilson as Geraldine Jones since Flip did it for television.) Nevertheless, neither Murphy nor Lawrence forged a female character as outlandish and hysterical as Madea. Moreover, neither actor created a franchise that could compete with Tyler Perry's Madea movies. Ironically, Tyler Perry's cinematic success with Madea hasn't cemented him his own place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. You know a comedy franchise is in great shape when a dude in drag sold more tickets than Tom Cruise's "Jack Reacher" sequel "Jack Reacher: Never Go Back" during the first weekend when "Boo! A Madea Halloween" went head-to-head against Cruise. For the record, "Boo! A Madea Halloween," is the eighth big-screen Madea comedy. "Meet the Browns" isn't a full-fledged Madea movie because she only had a cameo in that dysfunctional family fable. You know you're watching a crowd-pleasing comedy when contagious laughter from the audience drowns out the jokes that follow on the heels of previous jokes. Basically, this constitutes my only beef about "Boo! A Madea Halloween." Brian (Tyler Perry) and his rebellious 17-year old daughter Tiffany (television actress Diamond White) quarrel about her attending a Halloween shindig at the nearby Upsilon Theta Fraternity House. Tiffany has two 18-year old girlfriends who plan to fool the guys into letting her onto the premises. Not surprisingly, Brian forbids Tiffany to be there, and she turns her nose up at him in contempt. Indeed, the theme of "Boo! A Madea Halloween" is the father and daughter generational gap and the difficulty that a lack of discipline exerts on contemporary families. Brian is divorced, and he has no luck getting his ex-wife to intercede. Since Brian has an important meeting out of town, he rings up Madea. Uncle Joe (Tyler Perry), Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis), and Hattie (Patrice Lovely), accompany her to Brian's house. Predictably, Tiffany doesn't intend to miss the frat party, and she convinces Madea and company that a murderous clown haunt the house. Madea and Aunt Bam careen away in her Cadillac, but the vehicle breaks down in the woods. Madea and Bam freak out when ghouls surround them. Later, Madea wises up about the stunt Tiffany played on them. She dreams up her own devilish scheme, which involves faking the death of Tiffany's friend, to scare the Hades out of Tiffany and the Upsilon Theta Fraternity. Inadvertently enough, comedian Chris Rock inspired Madea's latest ghoulish escapade. According to the Internet Movie Database, Perry saw Rock's 2014 comedy "Top Five," wherein Rock wandered into a cinema and noticed people lining up to watch an imaginary Madea movie called "Boo" that Rock generated for his own movie. Perry's comedy represents Madea's first venture into an entirely different genre. Now, if you're dreading the horror content of "Boo! A Madea Halloween," fear no more! Most of the chills are strictly atmospheric. You may experience a jolt or two when a clown materializes out of nowhere, and dozens of phantoms in a creepy forest may prompt you to catch your breath. Overall, nothing traumatic takes place in this largely funny, PG-13 rated, farce that never wears out its welcome at 103 minutes. Tyler Perry returns not only as Madea, but he also plays Uncle Joe Simmons and Brian. Joe's health has taken a turn for the better since the crotchety old curmudgeon isn't breathing with aid of an oxygen bottle, but he is still every bit as obnoxiously funny. One of Joe's best jokes is pitched after about two-thirds of the audience had filed out of the theater. Yes, skits and bloopers proliferate during the end credits. Joe's joke is: "So your doctor told you not to have sex. What did your dentist say?" This is a rather vulgar joke for a "Madea" comedy as well as lecherous old Joe. Nevertheless, you must understand that writer & director Tyler Perry manages quite a tightrope balancing feat where he takes both his religious beliefs and the questionable antics of certain characters without going overboard with either. Joe utters some ghetto profanity, including the politically incorrect N-word, in "Boo! A Madea Halloween," and both Joe and Aunt Bam are shown smoking marijuana. The depiction of their drug use, however, is so mild that it could be mistaken for tobacco consumption. Compared with earlier "Madea" movies, "Boo! A Madea Halloween" lacks the depth of "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," "Madea Goes to Jail," "A Madea Christmas," and "I Can Do Bad All by Myself." Meantime, "Boo! A Madea Halloween" fits it with the lighter themed "Madea's Family Reunion," "Madea's Big Happy Family," and "Madea Witness Protection." If you're on Madea's team--to borrow the "Twilight" phrase, "Boo! A Madea Halloween" will qualify definitely as a treat despite some tricks.

• 6.5 kind of film. Good for families

  TheOneThatYouWanted2016-11-05

  This is my first time watching a Tyler Perry movie. But this is also a Madea movie so whatever. It is what it is, a somewhat wholesome family comedy. It is funny. It may just be the funniest movie of the year but that isn't saying much considering this is one of the worst years on record when it comes to movies. Anyway, it is worth seeing on the big screen, if you're looking for a comedy, with a good family message behind it. Im starting to see why Tyler Perry has such strong following, he makes films the whole family can enjoy. The current IMDb score is 4.7 and I can assure you that is definitely not the case so even though this is more of a 6.5 out of 10 kind of movie, I'm going to rank it a 10 out of 10 just to help offset the current score.