15 January 2009

Madea's Family Reunion (2006)

This movie deserves very little text to explain its sheer awfulness. "Madea" is Tyler Perry's smug alter ego, the one who lets him spell out his backwards and sexist morals before taking a cheap shot at some invented persecution (sometimes with a handgun) for a knowing, hateful laugh. It's a cowardly way to have it both ways -- the lesson and the laugh -- and it's exactly how Tyler Perry operates from start to finish. He is shameful for painting the liberation of women as a bad thing. He is despicable for the way he speaks down to black people while pretending to be on their side. He focuses the anger of a community on straw men so he can claim himself to be their champion. His methods are simply too much like those of a dictator... or, even more chillingly, like the Cat in the Hat.

Oh yeah, Madea's Family Reunion is about old people making young people feel guilty for having goals and dreams besides believing in Christ. It also features Madea (a hulking man in a dress) violently beating a child.

These movies are all the same anyways. Actually, each one only gets worse.

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