For a movie with the title "Madea Goes to Jail" you would think that she would be in the movie a little bit more. It's full of attempted jokes that aren't funny, and they try too hard to make you ...

Tyler Perry offers something for everyone, whether it fits together or not. “Madea Goes to Jail,” the latest addition to writer-director-actor Perry’s ever-growing empire, is, by a ...

“Madea Goes to Jail” only rarely follows through on promising setups with big laughs. The comic highlight is a sequence in which Madea proves capable of driving even the professionally ...

His latest dramedy, “Madea Goes to Jail,” hits theaters this weekend. Read our interviews with the cast and see photos from the film’s New York premiere.

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 ...

The actor with the boyish good looks is back in action in a big way as Derek Luke’s best friend in Tyler Perry’s new release “Madea Goes to Jail,” in between stints of community service ...

Full analysis here including the controversy over Madea Goes To Jail. This latest (and, in terms of racial stereotyping, perhaps the worst) from Tyler Perry was the largest opening weekend gross ...

“Madea Goes to Jail” only rarely follows through on promising setups with big laughs. The comic highlight is a sequence in which Madea proves capable of driving even the professionally ...

As it stands, “Madea Goes to Jail” will play to an audience that Hollywood mostly neglects but has made Perry a wildly successful media hits-man. He certainly knows how to entertain and ...

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. Maybe that means he can ...

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 ...

Is that Oscar nominee Viola Davis playing a straight-talking prison preacher in Tyler Perry’s latest, “Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail”? And Dr. Phil? And Tom Joyner? Steve Harvey?