This is another fun improbable comedy from Tyler Perry. George (Eugene Levy) has been set up to run a fake charity investment scheme which launders money for the mob. He agrees to testify and along with his family is placed in a witness protection program which places them in Madea's home.The family suffers from low self-esteem. Barbara (Doris Roberts) is George's mother. She suffers from dementia and jungle fever. George is married to Kate (Denise Richards) his second wife who doesn't get along with Cindy (Danielle Campbell) the rebellious back talking daughter from George's first marriage. Howie (Devan Leos) is the proverbial overweight son.The film is funny throughout with a smattering of predictable laughs. Tom Arnold has a bit part in the beginning and Tyler Perry plays three roles. PARENTAL GUIDE: No f-bombs, n-words, sex, or nudity. Some minor sex humor, such as a play on words such as "hard" and Madea mentioning her stripping and prostitution days.

I have not seen all of Tyler Perry's films, but I have seen most of them and this one was the worse I have seen by far. The story took forever to develop while I had to endure the terrible acting on the part of the guy from American Pie. Generally the acting in this film left a lot to be desired. Romeo for instance could not strike a balance between being too enthusiastic and being too relaxed. This movie was supposed to be a comedy but apart from Madea's wise cracks here and there, no one else was remotely funny. I got really annoyed at Madea's inability to understand certain words and her attempts at using a similar sounding word and trying to make a joke out of it. That method of humor was used and abused in this film and got pathetic after a while. I love Tyler Perry's dramatic films. They are touching, engaging and captivating but his comedies always seem to fall short just like house of Payne and meet the browns, two mediocre comedies that are just not funny. Please Tyler, get some creative minds for your comedies or stick to the drama.

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/

I usually enjoy Perry's Madea movies, but this one was disappointing. The only scenes which were remotely funny were ones with Madea's typical banter. The scenes with Eugene Levy were simply painful to watch as he struggled to make his character's nervous frustration look funny. He failed miserably. This was just terrible casting. Even veteran actors like Doris Roberts and John Amos could not save this terrible cast and script. The script was very predictable and repetitious. There were too many cheap attempts at laughter that just did not make sense and demeaned the intelligence of the audience. For instance, two FBI officials show up (a man and a woman) and the man has a very high voice and the woman has a man's voice. Why? It was a very short scene randomly thrown in simply for a laugh, except it was not really funny. I think Tyler Perry is a very talented actor and director, but this was his worst effort yet.