Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

I love this movie so much

Highly Overrated But Still Good

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

People make this movie seem like it's the worst thing ever created. Sure, it wasn't all the "good". Although, a lot of reviews make this seem there isn't any comical value at all. There weren't very many part, but just enough to keep me watching, granted there a many problems with this movie, and I am not a huge fan of Tyler Perry's movies, but there were a few one liners that made me laugh, for example. "Betty Boop done Drooped." I actually laughed when that line was said. If you're a fan of Tyler Perry's movies, then give this a go. If not, if you need a cheap laugh or two, give it a go. I can assure you it's no where near as bad as people say. I give this movie a 4 out of 10.

This time the stuff hit the fan as George Needleman is caught up in an unsuspecting scandal. He needs a place to chill and regain his footing which leads him to the casa of Medea (Tyler Perry) There George and his family discover that family is all you need when times get a bit rough around the edges. Being from Atlanta, it is exciting to see several of the local landmarks. Around the Georgia State Campus at the school of business and the walk way along the Georgia World Congress Center new addition has been transformed to an airport. This movie is also fitting as old stars come to shine where Tom Arnold, John Amos, and Doris Roberts to name a few make an appearance.

The beginning of this movie started really slow, and although I only paid $5 to see it, I was a little concerned. Tyler Perry's last movie ("Madea's Big Happy Family") wasn't good at all, but I have enjoyed all of his plays so whenever he releases a movie, I never quite know what to make of it. His plays always seem to outshine his movies. With that said, this one was a delight after you got over the hump, and that's mainly because I got to see more of Joe.Most folks love Madea (and I have a couple of relatives who act like her, one in particular -- especially on the plane ride -- comes to mind), but I am smitten with Joe, Madea's brother. He's a mix of perverted, comical, cool, mean and charming. Now I know some Madeas, but I know a lot more Joes, and if you don't know any, stroll into a barbershop and hang around. You'll meet one. Joe stole the entire movie for me, especially with "My baby mama went left." The basic plot of the movie is a guy named George Needleman (played by Eugene Levy) gets caught up in a Ponzi scheme and finds out that he's about to be in some serious trouble with the mob and charities if he gets mixed up in their money. Tyler Perry's character Brian plays the lawyer that's over the case and is told to hide George's family. Now I knew Levy was funny in "American Pie," but he didn't have a thing on Doris Roberts' character Barbara (who plays George's senile mother). A Betty Boop tattoo leads to a hilarious connection between Joe and Barbara, and I honestly just waited to see scenes with those two together. That is, when she wasn't randomly shouting "negros" when she meant "negro spirituals." I know this movie sounds slapstick, and if anybody else had made it, I wouldn't have given the film a chance but I think Tyler Perry's scripts are almost always funny, even the more controversial jokes. And he always knows how to bring out the funny in other people.Cindy (played by Danielle Campbell) played the usual bratty teenage girl that Madea wanted to check. Personally I felt like she could've been left out of the movie altogether and just make room for Howie (played by Devan Leos) solely because of his "connection" to Joe. Of course there were the moments when characters used slang to try to be funny, but I had a big eye roll for that considering how predictable it is.The rest of the movie is about the adults trying to crack the Ponzi scheme case, but I just kept wiping tears out of my eyes every time Barbara or Joe made an appearance. This movie was much funnier than I expected it to be because of those two. Kudos to Tyler Perry and cast!

It's of course OK for a comedy to have a very simplistic story in it but its unforgivable when you just don't have a good comedy writer. Really, what's the point of watching a comedy when it just isn't being all that funny? I just couldn't believe how badly written some of the comedy in this movie was. Most of the moments or pieces of dialog will get absolutely no laughs out of you, no matter how desperate the movie gets at times. The movie truly goes overboard in an attempt to still make you laugh, or at other times it's simply just going on and on. The director just didn't knew when to say cut at times, probably also because the director, Tyler Perry, himself is being on the screen a lot as well, as a whole bunch of different characters. But he clearly just ain't no Eddie Murphy!The different story lines are either poorly connected or just connected in such an unrealistic way that it becomes ridicules. The movie even drops some story lines after a while and then picks them up again 30 minutes later, or sometimes it doesn't at all. It does the same with some of its characters. It all lets this movie feel like a real messy one at times and you are wondering multiple times throughout it what it exactly is that you are watching here.The main premise of the movie is already a real ridicules and unlikely one to begin with. But the sad thing about it is that it's also absolutely going nowhere with it. At times I though that the movie was perhaps going to be one with some 'messages' it and the two different families would start to learn from each other and slowly but steadily grow closer to each other as well. But none of that is the case in this movie. It just mostly relies on racial stereotypes and other prejudices that just aren't being all that clever or original to watch and therefore also not all that funny.And really, I love Eugene Levy but I just think he is better when he's not playing the lead role. He's just far better and more fun to watch in supporting roles, though it perhaps is not fair to say that purely based on his role in this movie of course. He is given some incredibly weak material to work with and the movie perhaps was at times relying far too much on his delivery. But not even a comical talent like Levy could turn some of the moments and pieces of dialog into something funny. And how are we supposed to believe he's married to Denise Richards? There is some weird casting going on in this movie but Tyler Perry foremost should not had cast himself playing 3 different characters. He just isn't a talented enough comic, so far too scenes involving him fall totally flat.A failed attempt at a comedy.4/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/