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Madeas Witness Protection
A Wall Street nerdy, high level CFO of a Wall Street investment bank who has been set up as the linchpin of his company's mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with his family to a refuge where no one will think to look for them: Madea and Joe's house in Georgia.
5 March 1974, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
6 March 1959, Ottumwa, Iowa, USA
4 November 1925, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
5 September 1981
22 December 1964, Los Angeles, California, USA
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.
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 01, 2012
Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report.
July 06, 2012
The film is slapdash entertainment not meant to be further contemplated after leaving the theatre.
July 12, 2012
His best and most agreeable Madea comedy.
July 17, 2012
The frantic seventh installment in this highly successful comedy franchise is filled with throwaway gags and self-conscious scenes.
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.
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.
July 02, 2012
The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing.
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 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.
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.