My husband and I are middle class white people in the over 60 crowd. We have never been to the theater to specifically see a Madea movie, so first timers. It was a very mixed crowd, definitely both white and black, old and young. Some black and white coming together! that's cool. The movie was an afternoon show and it was pretty packed. My husband and I sat on the end of the row, but somehow a family ended up right next to us and I was literally elbow to elbow with a Tyler Perry look alike, which was amusing. I enjoyed the movie, but found the talk of child discipline a little over the top. I'm not going to laugh at someone saying they were on life support at 4 years old because Madea didn't like being talked back to. That was kind of awful. It makes her sound unhinged in a not so funny way. I'm not sure what Tyler Perry was reliving there. It was in general a bit on the preachy side but that was part of the plot I'm guessing. The "three stooges" or in this case four stooges, was otherwise pretty classic slap stick. The scenes of Mable..or Madea.. doing her thing and talking in her unique way is surprisingly funny. Happy Holler-ween... and the church scene when she ran from the zombies "Help me Jesus!" had the audience in hysterics. There are numerous "plot holes", but it didn't matter that much. You just can't think too hard about it. After all its not serious theater in an big sense. It's apparent "she" has a following, and she's a no nonsense woman of the world, with her "Ho"-0-1-K. It was a good diversion.
Review of Boo! A Madea Halloween
