Madea's Family Reunion (Full Screen Edition) | 
 enlarge | Director: Tyler Perry
Actors: Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Lynn Whitfield, Boris Kodjoe, Lisa Arrindell Anderson
Studio: Lions Gate
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  97 reviews
Sales Rank: 4368
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Published)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 107
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: LGED19328D
UPC: 031398193289
EAN: 0031398193289
ASIN: B000F9SO0O
Theatrical Release Date: February 24, 2006
Release Date: June 27, 2006
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Tyler Perry, impresario of the gospel theater circuit, brings his gun-toting granny-drag persona Madea back to the big screen in Madea's Family Reunion, a sequel to the surprise hit Diary of a Mad Black Woman. In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen (Keke Palmer, The Wool Cap), Madea has two troubled nieces: Lisa (Rochelle Aytes, White Chicks), who's engaged to an abusive and controlling investment banker (Blair Underwood, Something New); and Vanessa (Lisa Arrindell Anderson, The Second Chance), who can't open herself to the affection of a bus driver/artist (Boris Kodjoe, The Gospel) because of childhood abuse. Wreaking havoc on both of their lives is their mother Victoria (Lynn Whitfield, Eve's Bayou, in delirious wicked witch mode). Like Madea's previous outing, Madea's Family Reunion may induce mental whiplash--the movie zips from a discussion of flatulence to a jazz-backed poetry reading to domestic violence (Underwood, perhaps eager to leave his bland good-guy image behind, is genuinely scary), or from an act of horrific revenge to a staggeringly gaudy wedding. Though schizophrenic and morally questionable (beating an adult women is clearly wrong, but whipping a child with a belt in the name of tough love is apparently good), the movie is definitely unpredictable and never dull. Also featuring Cicely Tyson (Because of Winn-Dixie) and the poet Maya Angelou. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
While planning her family reunion a pistol-packing grandma must conted with the other dramas on her plate including the runaway who has been placed in her care & her love-troubled nieces. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/09/2008 Starring: Tyler Perry Lynn Witfield Run time: 110 minutes Rating: Pg13
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 Reesycup November 11, 2008
Great movie and, as with all the other Tyler Perry movies, it has a great message. He selected a superb cast to tell the story of the importance of family, pride, self respect and responsibility. Perry ties it all together with the perfect bow of hilarity from our favorite character, Madea. Madea stands up to her reputation in this movie as only she can.
a review. September 18, 2008
this is a wonderful movie i absolutely love tyler perry because he captures black families exactly how they act and doesnt spare any details. Every black family has a MADEA!
loving Tyler Perry!! September 2, 2008
Tyler Perry is my absolute favorite person in the world. With every new release, he gets better and better! The world would do well to adopt his sense of humor, sence of right and wrong and compassion.
 It has so much potential, yet it falls short August 12, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Let's start with the positive.
Tyler Perry is an ingenuous storyteller. This fact screams out loud and clear through his work. He grabs many controversial aspects of both Black and non-Black culture, mixes it together, and throws it back to the audience. Only brave creators can pull this off successfully, and Perry is definitely brave.
Now moving on to his movie, Madea's Family Reunion. This movie made me think about abusive relationships, love, family, and togetherness. Plus, the character Madea offered some very good advice that anyone can use in their daily lives. For example, she told her foster child Niki that the best think she could do is prove her previous foster mother wrong by studying hard to become more intelligent than her classmates. Also, she told Vanessa that you can only help those who want to be helped. Every character plays their role effectively, except one, and this is where we move to the negative part of the review.
Joe is a useless and offensive character. I understand that Perry is using him as a comic relief, but Madea fulfills that role already. So why is he there? This character downplays the serious and emotional moments in every scene that he is in. For example, when Madea was spanking Nikki for skipping school, he laughed and clapped as if it were entertainment. Also, during the reunion he has one of his female family members bend over and grab him a drink while he was lusting over her body, and if that wasn't bad enough, he tries to discouraged Frankie from marrying Vanessa twice just because she has two kids. Joe is a disgusting stereotype, and he needs to be erased from the Madea trilogy.
This movie has a outstanding plot, it's just too bad that this character Joe distracts you from it. Therefore, this movie only gets three stars from me.
Actually, after seeing this movie again today and seeing Perry's latest movie, "The Family That Preys," I give this movie two stars instead of three. I just want to make this clear becuase I can't change my initial score.
By Sabrina P.
laughing and learning July 19, 2008
It's a comedy. It's learns that if we have time and patience we can make children be succesful in their career. Madea saves a child in the old ways (not that that has to be done, nowadays). But she shows her love in her own olf fashioned way and save a child future. It's hilarious, laugh, laugh, laugh.... I recognized the same lines in his other works. So it seems as if I knew some parts of the movie. Feed back for Tyler: be more creative. You can do it!! A very funny movie.
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