“Madea Goes to Jail,” the latest addition to writer-director-actor Perry’s ever-growing empire, is, by a conservative estimate, two movies squeezed into one. FOR THE RECORD: ...

Brian Solamon Tyler Perry is back with a new movie and his oh so famous character Mable "Madea" Simmons. ... "Madea Goes To Jail" is not funny. Published: Feb. 23, 2009, 1:47 a.m. By .

Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail ... Ion Overman Donna - Vanessa Ferlito Ellen - Viola Davis T.T. - Sofia Vergara With: Dr. Phil McGraw, Rev. Al Sharpton, Whoopi Goldberg, ...

The Tyler Perry Experience continues with "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail," which delivers what his mostly black and female audience wants: soap opera and broad comedy leavened with a Christian ...

The movie's huge laughs suggest that as over-exposed as Perry is, with TV shows and two films a year coming out of his studio, "Madea Goes to Jail" will be a monster hit.

Read interviews with the cast of "Madea Goes to Jail," and see photos from the New York premiere. By Essence · Updated October 29, 2020 The talented Tyler Perry is back in the form of the crazy ...

Nick Beiter "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail" is really a drama about a prostitute who tries to get back on her feet with the help of an old friend. The story confronts serious issues including ...

On Oscar weekend, Tyler Perry’s “Madea Goes to Jail” produced some needed gold for struggling Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. The new comedy shot to No. 1 at the box office with three-day ...

Why Madea Deserves To Be In Jail. Skip to the content. ... Only one of them goes over the cliff. Also the cliff is Alzheimer's. Really, for the entirety of The Family That Preys. 7.

Madea Goes to Jail would’ve benefited from being a straight-up comedy. The film makes use of an obvious gimmick, as writer-director Tyler Perry dresses in drag to portray the loud-mouthed old ...

The law of diminishing returns catches up with Tyler Perry in this wildly uneven effort. Once again, Perry has concocted an ungainly mix of broad comedy, comically violent slapstick, sudsy ...

Perry, the Atlanta-based comedy factory, pulls out all the stops to stimulate his box office (it’s been sliding in recent years) with this Madea farce. His growing savvy as a movie-maker runs ...