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15 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonAn agent of spiritual regeneration and showman, Perry's dramaturgy is as subtle as a Bible-thump, but until a logy last act that has Levy disguised as a faux-Frenchman, his instincts are on-target here.
- 60VarietyJoe LeydonVarietyJoe LeydonThe interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny.
- 50The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerA comedy that's too late to the Ponzi-scheme party to be topical, and not outrageous enough to take advantage of its own setups.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckMadea is starting to look a little tired.
- 50The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThere aren't many laughs in this vaudevillian gambit, and fewer still in the fish-out-of-water comedy of Madea hosting a rich white family that's chiefly concerned with yoga, wi-fi, and their carb intakes. Still, Perry remains a true outsider artist-nobody makes movies like his. (And please don't try.)
- With Tyler Perry gradually segueing toward non-drag leading man status with "Good Deeds" and the upcoming James Patterson thriller "Alex Cross," his latest appearance as the sassy, wisdom-dispensing matriarch of the title in Madea's Witness Protection has an aura of fatigued reluctance to it, as does the film itself.
- 40Time OutTime OutThe writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing.
- Perry's latest is crudely assembled and mostly emotionally unengaging.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanWhile I fully support the appearance of a new Madea movie every six months, even Tyler Perry can't be bothered to take this setup seriously.
- A spectacularly slapdash and wearingly half-hearted effort from the prolific writer-director-actor, lacking energy, structure or common sense.