You won't be disappointed!

Perfect cast and a good story

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

What a wonderful movie! The cast was great! The gorgeous and talented Lisa arrindell Anderson did phenomenal as Vanessa. Rochelle Aytes did a pretty good job at playing a physically abused wife to be. Blair underwood and Lynn Whitfield were wonderful at being the devils of the movie. I loved the wedding and the family reunion. I liked that Madea was more *calm* in this film, compared to DOAMBW( diary of a mad black woman.) Henry Simmons' and Tangi Miller's characters could've been a little more exaggerated. This movie had great acting, was well written and showed a lot of what goes on in real life. I can't wait to see what Tyler has next!

Tyler Perry is a comic genius. This movie is funny, has many good messages, and causes you to think about family and how you treat others. Madea will not sit back and allow her family to be abused. She gets her gun and goes after them. She never kills anyone but she does scare them. Abusive people need to be afraid of something or someone who will stand up to them. This movie is also available in the form of a play. In the play, you will see a lot more of Madea than you do in the movie but you should see both. The Christian message is delivered in a way I have never seen before. If you are not a Christian you should still see the movie. It may still have an affect on you concerning the importance of family.

Being white, South African and predominantly Afrikaans speaking, This film tickled me absolutely pink! When i saw the trailers, I thought..."Maybe not". But while working one day, I was bored, so I rented this film. Bloody hell, Madea is a gem and Tyler Perry should be honored by someone for saying the things he said. This is a man, not afraid of saying what he believes and has the "balls" to use his faith in a film. Wake up Hollywood. Maybe this isn't a "Mainstream" film, but I will be watching Perry's films whatever they may be. And whoever reads this and disagrees, That's your choice. My choice is to watch the films that are uplifting, not degrading.

Tyler Perry's directorial movie debut was the second adaptation of his stage plays to make it to the big screen. Initially released in 2002 as a filmed version of the stage play, "Madea's Family Reunion" has its roots in the gospel musical; melodramatic morality plays with titles like "Your Arms Are Too Short To Box With God", several plot lines, lots of speechifying, and plenty of shouted comments from audiences of middle-aged evangelical Black women in brightly colored hats.The big screen adapation is a follow-up to Perry's first screenplay "Diary of a Mad Black Woman". Perry reprises his role as Madea (aka Mabel Simmons), a big-bosomed take-no-crap-but-ultimately-kind-hearted grandmother/aunt/anchor of an extended Black family in Atlanta whose house serves as a kind of refuge for troubled young female relatives. He also plays Madea's lecherous pot-smoking brother Joe and lawyer Brian who constantly gets Madea out of legal trouble brought about by her Samaritan actions. This time around Madea takes in unwed mother of two Vanessa (Lisa Arrindell Anderson) and rebellious foster child Nikki (Keke Palmer). The drama gets compounded when Vanessa's sister Lisa (Rochelle Aytes) shows up, fleeing from her abusive fiancé played by Blair Underwood. Nikki is disciplined and cared for by Madea, Vanessa ends up falling in love against her will with a perfect puppydog-eyed deep-voiced selfless man named Frankie (Boris Kojoe), and Lisa struggles to leave her fiancé against the will of her mother played by Lynn Whitfield.Perry's first attempt at movie direction is pretty straightforward and fairly competent. There are bright spots. Lynn Whitfield is excellent as the cruel mother, the scenes with Madea are funny, and Underwood is good in what must be his third go-around as the guy who doesn't get the girl. The poetry reading in the jazz cafe is really atmospheric. and the poetry read by Maya Angelou is very uplifting.Where "Reunion" falters is in the clichés. When Underwood slaps Rochelle Aytes the audience can actually count from five to one the split second it happens. Some of the romantic dialogue spoken by Kojoe is cringeworthy. Comedy bits with Madea move jarringly to over-the-top melodrama involving battered women, child abuse, and incest. Tyler Perry plays Joe in a painfully unfunny flatulence humor monologue that apparently attempts to mimic the family dinner scene played by Eddie Murphy in "The Nutty Professor". The old men leering at the young girls at the family reunion(!) is disturbing. Cicely Tyson's impromptu sermon about the decline of morals in the Black community in the middle of a barbecue(?) may work on stage to an audience that is expecting to be preached at, but on the big screen in a multiplex it's a bit much. The set where the final wedding scene takes place features a church draped in blinding white lace and curtains with real human beings dressed like angels suspended from the ceiling; in such bad taste it's ALMOST funny, but not.None of this matters, of course, to the God-fearing over-30 Black women Tyler Perry aims his plays and movies at. They flocked to theatres to make "Madea's Family Reunion" the number one movie at the box office its opening weekend. No one else is making movies for them, and as long as Tyler Perry does he's going to continue to laugh all the way to the bank.