Madeas Family Reunion
Pistol-packing grandma Madea has her work cut out for her when she finds herself dealing with a handful of family dramas the same weekend that she's planning a massive family reunion.
1967
26 August 1993, Harvey, Illinois, USA
1 July 1970, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
31 July 1964, Holly Springs, Mississippi, USA
14 March 1987, Detroit, Michigan, USA
18 February 1951, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
18 December 1924, New York City, New York, USA
25 January 1957, Kinloch, Missouri, USA
25 August 1998, Decatur, Georgia, USA
January 10, 1981 in Willoughby, Ohio, USA
2 April 1925, Ohio, USA
9 August 1942, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
8 March 1973, Vienna, Austria
March 01, 2007
If there's one thing that Reunion doesn't lack, it's good intentions. Unfortunately, good intentions don't automatically guarantee a good movie.
February 19, 2007
A Tyler Perry tour de force!
November 01, 2006
Although his work isn't high art and is occasionally problematic, he's telling stories that aren't often told. And for that, this black woman can't be too mad at him.
January 24, 2012
The dysfunctional script and operatically excessive direction ... land someplace closer to outsider art than bad moviedom.
March 03, 2006
At times it feels as if Perry made three separate films, dumped them in a blender and hit the puree button.
November 14, 2013
Tyler Perry means well, but there is no denying that all of this would work far better on daytime television.
March 01, 2006
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.
March 07, 2006
Perry's vaudevillian shamelessness and indifference to committee-approved taste are energizing and frequently jaw-dropping.
June 21, 2008
All the while Madea's wit, which is refreshing on the stage, feels spurious and often misfires.
March 07, 2006
Tyler Perry's heart is in the right place, but he still has a tin ear.
February 28, 2006
Though Perry's films are hard to defend on aesthetic grounds -- the crazy shifts in tone from operatic melodrama to broad comedy could cause seizures -- it's equally hard to begrudge the underserved audiences who embrace them so passionately.
March 10, 2006
Nothing that happens seems the least bit believable, and everything is brash and loud. All that's missing is the laugh track.
