Madeas Witness Protection
A CFO of Wall street investment bank is held responsible for the company's mob-backed Ponzi scheme and is moved to a very safe protection area: Madea and Joe's ordinary house so no one will suspect of his whereabouts.
30 January 1995, Hinsdale, Illinois, USA
17 December 1946, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
5 September 1981
6 March 1959, Ottumwa, Iowa, USA
27 December 1939, Newark, New Jersey, USA
July 12, 2012
His best and most agreeable Madea comedy.
July 02, 2012
He's still a young guy, but all throughout Witness Protection I imagined Perry sitting glumly at a dressing-room mirror, like the aging Chaplin in Limelight, forlornly rubbing makeup in his face -- a tired, old clown stuck in a tired, old routine.
June 29, 2012
The interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny.
July 10, 2012
Much of the film doesn't even play as Tyler Perry, but as yet another example in the evergreen "Eugene Levy slumming it for a paycheck" subgenre.
December 10, 2013
Unambitious and evaporates almost as rapidly as it plays out, but at least it knows what it is and only has one aim: to divert viewers for two hours.
July 04, 2012
George's son asks for Wi-Fi, and Madea says, ''Sure, I can make you a waffle.'' That's one of the good jokes.
July 02, 2012
The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing.
July 17, 2012
The frantic seventh installment in this highly successful comedy franchise is filled with throwaway gags and self-conscious scenes.
July 06, 2012
There are laughs in it, according to the enthusiastic audience I saw it with, but they're pretty spaced out and belong to Madea. What happens between them is unremarkable.
July 01, 2012
Tyler Perry doesn't have to make sense, or a have a point. He's laughing all the way to the bank.
July 06, 2012
The film is slapdash entertainment not meant to be further contemplated after leaving the theatre.
July 01, 2012
Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report.
