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Weirdest movie I have ever seen... (spoilers)


Well, apart from Lady in the Water...but that's a whole different thread.

How on earth can you have such a mixture of smut, profanity, violence, anger, and Christianity all in the one film? One minute the old black man is being totally disgusting, the next, the old gun toting black woman is dancing like a 12 year old on a lawn, and suddenly everyone is all dressed up and holding their hands up to the Lawd saying 'THANK YA JEEAYSUS'. Just plain weird.

I was baffled throughout, but no more so than when the main character Helen dumped the totally gorgeous, understanding, gentle and almost perfect (Christ like?) boyfriend to go back to the bald, fat, nasty womanising wife beater who dragged her around by the hair and threw her out a few weeks before. I mean, you just would not DO that, come on! Even if she did only go back to 'get back' at him. The whole film was full of things that had me shaking my head in disbelief.

Music was great...but the rest was a bag of sh ite.

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This was an extremely disjointed film.

The movie felt like it was written by a committee of screenwriters instead of just Tyler Perry. So many tonal shifts: from drama to comedy to revenge flick to romance to church film...this script needed a serious rewrite. Plus, editing was terrible and directing was mediocre. Sure, there were some good moments...SOME.

Just a pure mess.






Weird is the new normal.

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Madea's Family Reunion gets even crazier shifts! From "mom let stepdad have his way with me" to some random lady ringing a dinner bell at a cabin and singing...not sure wtf was with it. They're almost like someone decided to apply the B-Horror Movie formula to a drama...

When you're 17 a cow can seem dangerous and forbidden...am I alone here?

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That pretty much sums it up. I can only guess that Tyler Perry is not secure enough to write a drama yet is conceited enough to insist he appears in drag (together with other assorted characters to include the revolting old man)in every film he is associated with.

It's more crackers than Christmas.

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Lmfao!

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