Cinepals - Tyler Perry's MADEA'S BIG HAPPY FAMILY Movie Reaction & Review! | Loretta Devine | Shad 'Bow Wow' Moss

Episode Date: November 19, 2024

Jaby and Michael watch Madea's Big Happy Family for the first time! In this Madea story, Madea gathers her chaotic family to deliver shocking news from her niece Shirley, she uses her signature no-nonsense humor to tackle their drama and mend broken bonds. The main cast of Madea's Big Happy Family includes Tyler Perry (known for Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Why Did I Get Married?, and Acrimony) as Madea, the tough-love matriarch; Loretta Devine (Waiting to Exhale, Grey’s Anatomy, and Crash) as Shirley, the family matriarch with devastating news; Shad Moss aka Bow Wow (Like Mike, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Roll Bounce) as Byron, a young man trying to escape his troubled past; Cassi Davis (House of Payne, Madea Goes to Jail, and Boo! A Madea Halloween) as Aunt Bam, Madea's hilariously carefree sidekick; and Shannon Kane (Brooklyn’s Finest, All My Children, and The Originals) as Kimberly, Shirley’s troubled daughter. This ensemble cast delivers a mix of humor and heartfelt drama in true Madea fashion. You can watch the cut down reaction to this movie (and many others) on our YouTube channel https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals and the full length reaction is available on our Patreon page https://www.cinejump.com SOCIAL MEDIA ~MICHAEL BOOSE~ Instagram: @BooseIsLoose ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals

Senna. Tyler Perry is Medea's big happy family. That's the next one we are watching. That is on the list of all the votes that you guys have been sounding off in the comments. Whatever you guys ask for, accumulatively, whatever is the most popular, that's what we're doing. So, here we go. I want you to be my daddy, but I want to be your man now. Oh my God.

What the hell is this Woody Allen? Thank you for coming to this movie. You're welcome, Tyler Perry, for coming to this movie. for coming to this movie. Before I forget, two things. Okay, so there's the prostate exam stories, right? Yes. All right. But before I forget, though, in the scene in I can do bad all by myself, there was the

bathtub moment when dude jumps out the bathtub, right? Because the toaster's about the, not the toaster, but the boombox. The boom box. Two things. That dude was the guy with the family in Daddy's Little Girls. Remember, the girls on a date? The lawyer's on a date. That was him?

I think so. I think because he looked because like I only put it together because I was oh my God you're right yeah yeah yeah my brain just like overlaid his face yeah yeah because like I was like I was editing I can do bad all by myself and I was like oh now I realize why I recognize that dude oh so that's number one number two is that makes so much sense when he jumped out the bathtub to Raji P. Hansen laughed and I only caught it because I was editing the video she was like she had a snicker watching the actor jump out the bathtub that's so funny I just started laughing. I wish I could, like, I could have shot the video of myself, but I was in such a hurry to get the edit done. So anyway, prostate exam. So, um, I had my, I had a prostate exam at 18 years old because I had a panic of about something. Uh-huh. Come to find out, the thing I was scared of is something that, like, a lot of guys, it's like a normal thing for a lot of guys.

I'm not going to get specific about it. Okay. But he goes, you know, I'll check you out, you know, just to, you know, give you peace of mind. I'll all investigate. He has me go through the process of undoing my. trousers and put my hand on my knees and he goes just so you know I apologize I don't have any lubrication I go what he goes I'm just kidding oh I'm like I don't I couldn't even process that he was messing with me until like an 18 year old kid you have no idea what he's

talking about you're so nervous exactly and so during the examination I nearly blacked out like I started seeing flashes because he's like telling me not to clench I'm like it but it feels like I have to poo it just it's an awkward feeling right um and so anyway uh afterwards he goes don't worry you're not gay and then he sends me on my way and i'm like what the fuck what what is going on here what fucking doctor exactly and so anyway then then i had another uh exam a couple of guys why did i have another exam i forgot why i had some kind of exam because of some kind of who knows why i decided to do that and so because i i'm i'm I'm very paranoid and

like I get I just like I ask doctors lots of questions like we'll just check you out to make sure you're okay I'm like all right yeah yeah what happened was

the doctor examines me right but instead of me having my hands on my knees he's got me laying on my side like a baby and he doesn't He feels very intimate and so he starts the examination

and then he finishes and I get I'm like I have this like embarrassment this shame he goes he goes what's wrong I go well I think I pooped a little bit

and he goes yeah Mike oh well gee thanks he like he wiped it up real quick because like when you know if you ever if you've ever used a what's it called when you put something up your butt

An enema Is that what it's called? Like when you're washing or are you talking like in the kinky way? No no it's a no it's a little thing you use to soften things back there I forgot what it's called Oh a suppository

Yeah it's a suppository. Yeah it's a suppository. Yeah it's a suppository. You know, it sometimes invites the sequence. And so that's kind of what happened during the exam. And I was just, like, embarrassed. I have never told anyone that. And so now all of you know.

Congratulations, Internet. Thank you all for being here for this. Oh, God. Yeah. It's a, it's a discomforting. So I, like, and when he was talking about, when I saw his fear, I'm like, I feel for you, man. I understand. I feel for you.

You can empathize more than, more than I can. I haven't hit the point where I got to get my regular. I'm still at the, like, you know, know they kind of poke you in the front and go turn your head and cough thing. I do that too. I do that to myself. It's important to self-check. Men, women, Dave M's, whatever you got going on.

It's because I lift weights. I'm always lifting weights and I'm like, okay, did I disrupt something? And so I just do the self-check. I got to make sure. Yeah, yeah. You got to check. Anyway, about the movie. Yeah.

So you ever have a sampler plate and you're like... Like a poo platter? Yeah, yeah. Is that what it's called? Were you messing with me? That's what it's called? No, I'm dead serious. Yeah, it's commonly called a poo-po.

It's just, like, weird that it's, that's the follow-up. The Hawaiian word for, like, samples and, like, hors d'oe is pooh. So you have a sampler, and you get through it, and you're like, I really wish I had more of those items. Uh-huh. These other ones are, right. Yeah. That's kind of how this movie felt. It's like, the facts are I had a good time.

It was some escapism. I had some laughs. Yeah. It was very, like, it was very popcorn, you know? and then I ate it, I'm done. And it's like, I didn't really, it didn't elevate my life, but I had a good time. Right. That's the feeling.

Because, like, having watched a wide gamut of Tyler Perry films now, I'm like, all right, this is all right. It was fun. It's better than some, but it's not as good as others. Yeah. And I fully agree with you there. I think we got some of the hallmarks of Tyler Perry that we know and love, like Medea going off on sassy kids and, you know, kind of these characterizations of,

of modern young people and then also those dramatic way over the top marriage stories where you feel irredeemable how are the two of you in love right? What was working in the favor of this one is I feel like everybody kind of got some semblance of an arc

in their relationship and like the solving of their issues but working against it I feel like the arcs happened really quick and we got resolution pretty quickly so like I think I think yeah similar to what you were saying is like I got a taste of both where it like felt a little rushed

but like I still felt like we got a complete sort of story with all the characters in a way. Yeah, well one thing that we have experienced a couple of times of Tyler Perry is a rushed ending and here it was actually kind of the opposite. It wasn't necessarily a rushed ending. It just got to

the third act really fast. Yeah. But like after that it didn't just wrap up real quick like why did I get married too? Right? Because like and why did I get married two when the third act hits the movie's over. It's done. Yeah. It just, bing, bang, boom, we're done. And so here, you know, she passes away, and then we have, like, a slower trail off as things are getting resolved.

I'm like, oh, okay, that's an interesting way to handle things. It didn't quite get wrapped up in the way that would have been ideal. Like, that's fine ass. What's her name? Kimberly. Where's my IMDB at? That whole thing, that was the least resolved. I mean, it was the least resolved.

It at least got the ball rolling somewhere rather than just being like, oh, man they've had this massive fight and then we like the end moment is them just like looking at each other like oh we got to be better and that's it you know like we kind of got that but at least they outed like what's really eating at her and then he was able to reconcile style like can i hold you like let me hold you and she finally gave into him and was like yeah and so we saw a little bit of character growth and at least like a beginning of them figuring things out which i think is a little bit better than why did I get married too where it's suddenly like oh we've ended on this massive irreconcilable fight for everyone and then Janet Jackson just goes love your spouse and

they're all like ah man I guess we're done fighting now sort of thing so I think I got a little bit more out of it but I see what you mean is it like it was kind of the one that didn't really have a set ending where we're like they're going to be okay yeah it was just more like okay they're working on it. And we also never got a moment between Kimberly and her son. Yes, also true. Like that was just so bizarre to me that I think at one point, right before she went upstairs, she looked at him and said, I'm sorry, but we never got his, we never got the reverse

of him to show an acknowledgement of some kind of her apologizing to him. I will also say his forgiveness of Shirley, who he thought was his mom, was really fast. Gotcha. And we didn't have any sort of resolution about him dealing. Right, right, right. Like he came back and he's like, no, I'm not going to do that anymore, even though he'd already gone back to it. And so we didn't really have like that kind of moral catharsis. But we did, you know, have him finally turning around and being like, no, other girl, you're

a bad influence, I'm not going to take your shit anymore, get gone. Yeah. Which I did enjoy. Yeah. The film set up a lot of threads and didn't necessarily pay all of them off. And so it's like, again, I had fun along the way, and I think that's all that really matters. Yeah. But it's just like, it's just weird because it had the opportunity to get deeper and it didn't.

It had the opportunity to resolve things in interesting ways. And it just, it was just like problems, problems, and then she dies and then things are resolved. And I'm like, but dang, it's like, but all the ingredients were there to make a much better meal. The performances were really, really great. I enjoyed the threads that they were setting up. Yeah. I mean, at this point, I live for that kind of extra Tyler Perry drama. Sure. Where it's like, okay, how ridiculous can we make this relationship? Yeah. And I, I've learned to kind of suspend my disbelief. There's still a part of me that's like, okay, this, you can't really be this jaded in a relationship and still together at a certain point. Right. But maybe there's also some

reality in that you know i i'm come from a very privileged point of having met the love of my life in high school and i like we're still very very happy together like 11 years down the line so i i just i personally can't see having a relationship with someone get that rotten and still being with them and not being able to talk about it and figure it out and and save it so that's where the kind of the unreality of these characters come into play for me but like it's fun and And we all love hating on a character that's easy to hate. So Kimberly coming in and being a massive, massive bitch, you're just sitting there like, man, I hate this girl, she sucks, you suck, I'm just forever going to hate you.

And you get like a certain amount of catharsis out of that. And it's fun. And I really, really enjoy that. And I think the stories they set up and the characters they set up, while it didn't get as many of the threads finished as I would have liked, I enjoyed watching them. It was fun. Yeah. Shannon Kane is the actress.

and yeah she was very pretty she was distracting it was hard for me to hate her I was like I'm looking at all her nasty behavior and I'm like yeah I guess I would put up with that I wouldn't say no I guess I put up with some bullshit

I'm not gonna lie and we got one of these days we're gonna have like a hear me out cake of Tyler Perry characters yeah because like I'm looking at the kid and seeing what he's putting up with and I'm like I get it dude being on the outside it's easy

to be like, you just need to leave. But when you're on the inside, it's hard. And I kind of wish the film did a better job of addressing that because that is something that kind of gets the better of us, men. It's true. And perhaps women as well. I mean, it gets the better of any of us. There's a person called the Tinder swindler.

So, you know, it can get the best of any of us. It's like why was that kid going after? Like, it never really addressed it. Why did he keep going after people who seem to take advantage of him? That's what I wanted to understand. And it never really, like, addressed that. I also would have really liked, like, maybe there was another character in his life that was better. And he needed to take the time to realize that she's better for him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. A growth in realizing that he deserves a woman who's going to look out for him as much as he looks out for her rather than looking out for herself. I agree with you. I like that better. However, that is more tropey. It is more tropey. But, like, that, if you look at the Tyler Perry movies that we've really, really loved, it's been Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Medea's Family Reunion, that's the trope. We have the one main character who has a really terrible person that they're in a relationship with, and then they find someone who's willing to, like, be there for them in a real genuine way.

And so I was kind of, I would have been kind of interested to see that trope reversed where the character we're focusing on is the male rather than the female. And then we have a female character come in that is really uplifting. But this film was more about the family ensemble rather than one character. If we were going for that trope, I think we probably would have had to focus more specifically on Byron as a character rather than the whole family. And so it was more about the family drama and getting them to come back together for their mom this one last time rather than specifically Byron's story of needing a better person in his life. I think the immediate comparison on my mind is why did I get married the first one? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, very similar. Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Yeah, it is similar, but I'm, it's all jumbled up now. It's the family that prays. Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, just because of the Shannon Kane character, Kimberly, it's like the correlation is right there. And in both, why did they get married, but more so in the family that prays, I felt like we got a better sense as to the depth of everybody. Yeah.

And just like, I, particularly in the family that prays, I got to understand everybody's characters, like, their history and, like, what informs. You can still have ha-haz and make it funny and all that. But, like, you add a little bit of drama in there to help us get grounded with these characters. Get as silly as you want. But one of the great things about a lot of the Tyler Perry films is it can get crazy. It can get silly. But we understand them and we understand the drama and we can buy into it.

Yeah, we understand where they're coming from. Yeah. And this was an instance where it was like, it felt like it wanted to do that, but it didn't give us all of the necessary tools. or ingredients to feel fulfilled on the dramatic side of it. Yeah. You know, it was more like candy. You know, like the vegetable chips,

it's like they're good for you. You know what I mean? That's kind of what this was. You know? I gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. And that's, it's,

I think that the only reason I'm disappointed by it is because it had all the necessary ingredients to be a much better film. That's like, you know, when you see something that's just awful, this isn't awful. It's like, it was fun.

Yeah, it's good. It's fun. But like, it could have been like his other films that were so much better. Yeah, it didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. I don't feel like I've wasted however long we've been watching this movie.

Yeah. It was fun. But, yeah, like I said, I think I said at the beginning, is it falls kind of right in the middle between the Tyler Perry movies that I've kind of been like, and the Tyler Perry movies that I've really found phenomenal.

Yeah. It kind of, it somehow is like the middle venn diagram of all of the things that make the movies great and also what the make the movies less fun to watch. The kid was played by Bow Wow. That I did, realized as soon as I looked at the IMDB. The IMDB.

I clocked his name in the opening credits, and then my brain was just like, whoop, that's, we're going to take that little, whew, put it away. I'm like, all right. Because I was watching his acting, and I'm like, okay, okay. Like the one who played his ex, who wanted the $400, as extra as she got, I feel like that person is so real. There's something like, because I have, for sure. I've encountered, like, whether it's high school or just friends, girlfriends or

whatever like I've encountered that personality in real life and who is just very very like just a lot you know whereas uh Byron himself I'm just like I know like I know you from myself and I've like and other people like in my life I know what you're going through but but you're he just needed to like bring it down a little bit it was it was so much with the face and everything in my opinion it was a little it was a little over overplay yeah yeah And then Mr. Old Spice, yeah, it was great to see him. It was good to see him. He walked in and I immediately had the Old Spice commercials playing in my head, swan dive,

into the best night of your life. Oh, my God. But what I liked about the, as frustrating as it might have been sometimes, what I liked about his scenes in particular with Shannon Kane is that I would get frustrated because I'm like, dude, why are you? And it allows me to reflect and go, ah, that's what you should do in real life. because the characters are making mistakes and you can see those mistakes

and go, this is where I should have made a right instead of a left. Right, right. You know, it's that kind of feeling. Yeah. And so sometimes that's why it helps to see characters in a movie or whatever make mistakes

so you understand what not to do. And you can also see yourself and your own mistakes reflected in those characters. And it's the same thing you were talking about of like when you're on the outside looking in. It's a lot easier to identify problems. Yeah. And I'm sure there are people that like see these

and I think I talked about this with why did I get married too is like I'm sure are people out there who see the problems of these characters, no matter how heightened the relationships are, and go, oh, maybe I got to take a look at my own relationship, and maybe this has helped people identify, like, rocky areas in their own relationship, because they can take a look at it from the outside and go, that's ridiculous, and then kind of internalize that and go, oh, I actually do that.

That's a thing. It's easier to analyze when you see it in front of you. Yeah. This last statement I want to make about the film is it might sound woke But woke in not in the root word woke But in like what it's been appropriated for Okay

And so it The film for me felt less balanced than other Tyler Perry films in the way the genders were handled Because you had just uniformly Bad women And I'm like what the Like every woman in this movie's evil I was a little surprised by that

Initially it was just like every single one of the women in the relationship was not a character I enjoyed. And all the guys were like trying to be genuine and trying to be their best. And I was like, this feels a little unbalanced. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was, is this, is this what Taming of the Shrew was like? It's just like uniformly, everyone had the same problem.

Yeah. Good dude, bad woman. And they're just trying to make it work. And then the women have to apologize to the men. And like that just kept happening. And I'm like, except for with Byron where he just told her to piss off and hit the road, I was a little surprised that's how that went, but that made the most sense.

I was hoping she was going to have an art, but no. She never had a redeemable moment. There was never a point where anybody was like, you could be better for your man. You could be a better person. She was always just like, you got it. Both of them were both like, you got to give me money. I'm here for the money.

Not the kid, not for you. I'm here for the money. The biggest line that really was indicative that, what's her name, Tammy, was not sticking around, was I love you, I guess. That was horrible. I was like, what? Yeah, that was horrible.

If someone's telling you, I love you, I guess, and you don't have, like, an established rapport of this is a funny joke we do, that's a red flag, y'all. Yeah. Well, as Skeeter says, you know, he's young, dumb, full of... You guys, I'll see you the next one. And that was fun. And so, comment below, and we'll tally it up, as we always do.

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