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Hellur there, Robbie K is back again and if you haven't guessed my next review is on the latest Tyler Perry "masterpiece". Madea, and all her lovable qualities, has been making audiences laugh for almost twenty years. Although many of her movies are essentially double dipped versions with a slight twist, the crossdressing writer continues to get people to flood into theaters almost every year. So, let's see if the mad woman can conquer a Halloween themed movie, shall we?

LIKES: • Madea smacking on young kids • Some clever jokes and timing • A change in setting…sort of

I'll come out and say that I'm not a die-hard fan of the series like others, but I'd also be lying if I said I didn't enjoy her brand of justice. Madea's Halloween has plenty of moments where juvenile, annoying teenage characters meet her wrath. Smacks in the back of the head, fists flying into rubber noses, and intense threats are just some of the tactics the old woman uses to scare the daylights out the brats. It's silly fun that will keep many laughing most of the movie, but Perry sneaks a few morals into the mix to give some of the scenes a point. Older generations will surely enjoy seeing the immature generation get some sense beaten into them. And when Madea isn't laying the smack down, she also manages to get some clever jokes into the mix. Amidst the mindless ramblings that come out of our characters 90% of the time, Madea gets a few good lines in to maximize the laughs. Often this is in the form on an insult or a rebuttal to an accusation, but Perry has some witty moments that had me riling. Her brother Joe had me laughing even more, primarily due to his well-timed confession though I wish he could have a cleaner mouth at times. Ms. Hattie and Aunt Bam also contribute some of the laughs, rounding out the comedy to appeal to as many people as possible. Finally, it was nice to see Madea leave her home for…somebody else's home. Madea's Halloween hasn't moved too far from her hood, but it integrated a new theme into the setting to freshen things up. The spoof on killer clowns, the integration of a frat house, and putting some ghost themed tricks into the mix finally broke the mold on the family drama that every other installment has. Halloween trades the tearful, preachy character moments for more laughs, giving it a more positive energy that doesn't make you want to take a nap. This new approach will be refreshing for most and may be the new formula to Madea's success.

DISLIKES: • Annoying characters and antics • Rambling gets old • Editing

Tyler Perry certainly knows how to develop annoying character, and Madea's Halloween does not get an exception. As mentioned earlier, the teenagers are annoying representations of today's youth, portrayed as being obsessed with booze, sex, and back talking parents. The main girl Tiffany takes lead in this category. Her extreme rebellious attitude leads to over dramatic and overacted antics that rubbed my nerves raw. The rest of the cohort doesn't fare much better, with the exception of one, that serve little more than becoming fodder for Madea and having audience members say "Oh no she didn't!" And I'll get bashed for this, but Ms. Hattie was too much for me in this movie. In her past appearances, the small woman's high pitched voice was timed well to be fun and funny, but she was too much for me in this film. Her antics were too overdone and her voice just rubbed me the wrong way. If you like her though, then good news, she's in this movie a lot. Something else that started rubbing me the wrong way was the rambling. Madea and company have many moments where all they do is gab, usually involving three to four people talking incoherently about drugs, sex, stupidity, drugs, sex, stupidity, police, crime, and stupidity. Then Madea comes in and shares her experience and the rambling starts again. Yes this is Madea and it has come to be expected, but usually there are some other things to break it up. Not the case in this film and the lack of balance quickly led to the ramblings getting stale and losing its comedic edge for me, though this wasn't the case for a lot of the audience. As for the editing, it is greatly skewed in this movie and quite poor to be honest. At least three times the movie was just extended sequences of rambling that did little for me other than add forty-five extra minutes to the movie, though it did have others laughing their heads off. Even more disappointing is that the Halloween theme is kind of lost to Madea's rambling and so much potential for jokes is lost to the old hat antics, which is just so sad. But with how much fun most will have with this movie, I don't think this will be an issue to most.

The Verdict:

Madeas Halloween is surprisingly fun and refreshing compared to her other works. It's filled with her characteristic rambling, corny insults, and the same types of jokes that have been played for years. Unfortunately for this reviewer, the Halloween potential was lost to annoying characters and rambling, which only extended the run time for me. While this is certain to win top box office this weekend, this reviewer thinks this movie is best left to TBS/TNT showings.

My scores are: Comedy/Horror: 6.5 Movie Overall: 5.5

So, usually I avoid these movies like the black plague, but from the poster and the trailer, something told me this was going to be worth the ticket price, and I was right.

A Madea Halloween is hilarious in it's stupidity, and you can't help but to laugh at it. Madea's nephew (both played by writer director and producer Tyler Perry) ask her to watch his daughter, Tiffany, in order to keep her from leaving the house to go to a Halloween frat party, but Tiffany like a rebellious teenage girl sneaks out of the house anyway. Bad for her, cause Madea is definitely not the family member a teenage girl wants tracking her down.

Tyler Perry tends to make movies that speak to a certain movie watcher, and I fully admit, with A Madea Halloween, I was totally listening to everything he had to say. It was like a good stand up comedian telling a joke that makes you laugh out loud because it's so true. Believe you me, I'm no hater, but I'm the not the biggest fan of Tyler Perry either, but he got me with this one. I just could not help but to relate and it made me just push out my laughter uncontrollably at moments.

A Medea Halloween is not going to win any awards and it's not even trying. It's just trying to be stupid, and it succeeds greatly creating a hilarious movie that reminds me of a Holiday special you would see on TV, that's perfect for this time of season, with just the right style of camp that makes it in the so bad it's good category, perfect for a comedy with horror elements.

It's a whole lot of fun.

I didn't think it was possible to dislike a Halloween movie as much as I do Boo! A Madea Halloween. This movie is a complete waste of time. It's a humorless, pointless, hopeless, crude mess full of bad acting and a ridiculous storyline. It's not funny. It's not scary. And it's far from clever or witty. This movie isn't a treat, it's a trick-a horrible trick with no real value or substance.

Dear movie goer, after seeing one half of this movie and shutting it down in disgust, I am wondering what happened to the Tyler Perry who brought us Madea's Family Reunion which was hysterical, but thought provoking with a stellar cast. This was unfortunately a foul mouthed piece of garbage.

Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016)

1/2 (out of 4)

Brian (Tyler Perry) can't control or even say no to his 17-year-old daughter Tiffany (Diamond White) so he asks Madea (Perry) to sit with her while he goes out of town. Daddy is worried she will sneak off to a frat party, which she does and of course Madea must follow her.

You have to respect Tyler for what he has accomplished in his career. I will admit that this here was my first Madea movie and I will admit that I hated it. In fact, it was one of the worst comedies that I've ever seen. At the same time, I can respect the fact that this film as well as other Madea movies are quite popular and Tyler at least gives his fans what they want.

With that said, this is without question one of the worst comedies in recent memory. From what I've read this was filmed in six-days, which is rather remarkable for a film made today. What's so bad about this movie is that the screenplay is just so uneven and so unfunny. I mean, the final sequence is basically a bunch of young adults being terrified with rape. Yeah, real funny.

The entire movie was one failed laugh after another and all of it can go back to the screenplay. There are scenes that just drag on for no apparent reason and then there are scenes where the "joke" just gets dragged out to the point where you wish you'd hear someone yell cut. I honestly laughed at maybe two things here and everything else was just so forced and juvenile.

Again, I can respect that this series has its fans but I honestly can't see why. I'm not going to judge the entire series off of one movie but this didn't really make me want to check out others.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. This is my first review ever so you know it was bad. The money spent on this film could have paid for college scholarships.

Imagine Big mommas house as a multi vehicle traffic accident, involving a clown, some extras from the walking dead.

Story synopsis (dont worry no spoilers):

A car driven by a stupid writer, careers into the path of a lorry loaded with out of date unoriginal material. The ensuing commotion is truly unremarkable and easily forgettable.

This is one of those films that sounds funny (ish) when you try to tell others about it. But, in reality, is just cheesy stupidness.

It actually looks vaguely familiar, a sort of de ja vu experience. Then you realize that much of it, is rip off of other (and much better) films.

If your feeling suicidal, go see this. You may conclude that perhaps your life is not actually that bad after all.

Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) is a movie that I recently watched on Peacock. The storyline follows a father struggling with his teenage daughter who is a 17-year-old freshman in college. He recruits the help of Madea to set her straight on respecting adults and herself.

This movie is written, directed and stars Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman) and also stars Cassi Davis (House of Payne), Patrice Lovely (Madea Family Funeral), Yousef Erakat (We Love You), Bella Thorne (Scream: The TV Series) and Lexy Panterra (There's Someone Inside Your House).

The best part of the movie is the opening trick-or-treat scene with "Biggie." I was cracking up during that entire sequence. The Madea and Tyler Perry (as the father) conversations were also hilarious as was Madea's brother, Joe (as always). There's also a good fraternity punch in the face scene and a booby conversation that's laugh out loud good.

Tyga being in this was an A+ too.

Overall, while this movie isn't "good" there are enough entertaining scenes to make this worth a watch. I would score this a 5/10 and recommend seeing it once.

I was SO disappointed with this show. I have loved all of the Tyler Perry movies, until now. Seems he has gone downhill. This movie had more cussing in it than all of his other movies put together!!! What happened Tyler Perry? A movie doesn't have to have so much cussing in it to be good! This just seems so out of character compared to his other movies. :(

Like another reviewer, I too am a huge Madea fan, however, this movie lost my attention after the first 10 minutes. I concur that many of the scenes were too long. They were boring with long, drawn out dialogues. I actually dozed off a couple of times.

We laughed occasionally, however, the comedy and acting did not rise to that of other Madea films. We actually thought about walking out after the first 45 minutes, however, we are glad we stayed as the scenes at the end kept our attention and were much more entertaining.

That being said, my recommendation would be to wait until this movie becomes available on DVD or pay-per-view.

This latest installment in the madea movie franchise is filled to the brim with hilarious comedic writing, complete with some oh h**l no's and bust yo *** up being dropped about every minute. If you enjoyed the other madea films, then you will surely love this one! I have only seen one other madea movie other than this one. Don't feel like you must see the others in order to like this one, each madea movie stands on its own. This Halloween one really will tickle your funny bone, the dialouge is just perfect, and the jokes are timed and written so well, the audience was rolling in laughter throughout. Now don't think that this is a family oriented/appropriate film, because it's not. There is consistent mild cursing, which just adds so much more to the comedic value of this and all the madea films, that has become a norm in this franchise of movies. If you are a pre teen, teenager or adult, then I would for sure recommend Madea Halloween to you. If you're looking for some funny simple escapism, then buy a ticket! 7/10.

First of all, I would like to announce I'm a HUGE Madea fan ever since I watched the first one and have watched all of them.

There were certainly good elements in this Madea but the movie lost my attention at times. Some scenes were way too long - first thing you learn as a screenwriter is not to write a scene that's over 3 minutes, especially not at the beginning, or you may lose your viewers. Some parts of the dialogue were redundant.

Some of the Actors are not actual actors but Youtube sensations. Their acting was not the most convincing. It's hard to be over-the-top character-style (like Tyler Perry does with Madea) but still be believable. It also take talent to be natural and not over-the-top when needed. Acting is an Art and takes lots of training. Some may believe the number of followers is more important to the success of a project than actual talent, I would have to disagree on that one.

This Madea is not one of the Madea's I would watch again. In the end, it could have been better.

I still love Madea and will keep going and being a big fan. And I can't wait for the next one.

PS. Bloopers after credits come up are funny. If you go, make sure you stay until the end.

By 2016, Movie Fans had the opportunity to see the mad black woman known as Madea put her unique personal stamp on, among other situations, a family reunion, jail, a witness protection program and Christmas. But how will she make it through a wild and wacky Halloween? "Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween" (PG-13, 1:43) answers that question in typical Madea fashion – her way! Actor, producer, director, screenwriter, playwright, author, and songwriter Tyler Perry's most famous and enduring character is rough around the edges, but the old lady is just being herself – and doing what she thinks is right. Mabel "Madea" Simmons gets through life the best she can, no matter what anyone else thinks about her, and she's going make the people around her act right – with insults and by force, if necessary.

Madea (Perry) is the aunt of Atlanta attorney Brian Simmons (also played by Perry), who is newly divorced and has his hands full with his rebellious and disrespectful 17-year-old daughter, Tiffany (Diamond White). Tiffany's friends (Bella Thorne and Lexy Panterra) are planning to go to a nearby college fraternity's Halloween party and Tiffany wants to sneak out of the house to join them, along with her reluctant friend, Aday (Liza Koshy), who is sleeping over. Brian gets wind of the plan, but he has to go out of town, so he bribes Madea to spend the night in his house to make sure the girls stay out of trouble. Madea shows up at Brian's with her cantankerous brother (Brian's dad), Joe (Perry again), her marijuana-smoking cousin, Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis), and their meek friend, Hattie (Patrice Lovely).

Tiffany comes up with a plan to outsmart "the old people" (as she derisively refers to them) and sneak away to go to the party. Madea soon realizes that Tiffany and Aday are gone, so she gathers her posse (except for Joe, who decides to hold down the fort) and crashes the party looking for the two girls. She doesn't find them, but manages to ruin the party. The president of the frat (Yousef Erakat) wants to get even, but you have to get out of your coffin pretty early in the morning to fool Madea, and there's a scary price to pay for even trying. Besides the theme of the party, the Halloween angle comes in with Aunt Bam stealing candy from trick-or-treaters and various characters taking advantage of the spooky nature of the holiday to formulate their plans to fool others and get what they want out of the evening.

"Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween" is a typically silly and fun Madea adventure… with some life lessons thrown in. Madea and her contemporaries are exaggerated stereotypes, not to be taken seriously, which gives the audience permission to just sit back, relax and enjoy the on-screen antics. Perry's script contains a few good jokes, but most of the humor comes from his direction and the actors' performances – namely, the way the characters speak and act towards each other – and the Halloween backdrop gives everyone plenty to work with. Brian is a loving and earnest, but ineffective dad, until the directness of Madea and her crew helps him see things a little differently. It all makes for another enjoyable Madea outing that stands on its own merits. "B"

This movie is awful.

I don't understand why such a homophobic man would think it would be fun to dress up in women's clothes and make movies.

This movie is lame.

Why this earned 27 million at the box office the first weekend is beyond me.

Well I know - it is one of only a few Halloween movies. This is a terrible state for the movie industry to be in if this and the Ouija movie are the major choices for Halloween.

This movie is awful.

I cannot begin to imagine that anyone would sit through this movie. There are terrible jokes and awful dialogue.

Bottom line: Avoid at all cost.

Boo: See it and you have been tricked.