The Reel Rejects - BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN REVIEW – We Actually Want More Madea Horror! - FIRST TIME WATCHING

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Starting point is 00:01:33 They're always coming and going. Always coming and going, like Medea and the ghost in this movie. Now, without further ado, let's get into the review. I think last time we filmed, I started with Jonatello. So this time I'm going to start with my boy, my Johnny boy. Yes. How are you thinking about, boo? I'm a media Halloween.

Starting point is 00:01:51 Well, it wasn't Medea. It was a D-Saw. But, I mean. Not to the degree we thought it would. what to say about this movie I mean I had fun this is this is okay so during this movie

Starting point is 00:02:07 I started to realize there are sort of becoming tears of Tyler Perry for me there are Tyler Perry movies that I think surprise me you know every you have the early period where you're watching him find his voice and then you know after a while he starts to kind of even out or at least gets a greater grip on the technical as well as

Starting point is 00:02:27 depending on the movie you're watching the structural scripting elements and the thematic elements and whatnot. There are a handful of them that are kind of just like, this is like a hangout movie. Like a lot of Tyler Perry movies fall

Starting point is 00:02:43 or overlap with the category of hangout movie. And this movie is fascinating to me because it did stuff I would expect a media movie to do. Sure.

Starting point is 00:02:56 It flirted with some things I wish a Medea movie would do. It ultimately was not, I'm not holding this very heavily against the movie. I guess for my personal taste, I wish we could get a Medea movie that is willing to play a little faster and more loose with, you know, the fantasy of it all or something. Well, John, I'll have you know that there is a boo too. a second Medea movie this Halloween. So we still could get our chance of an actual horror Medea movie.

Starting point is 00:03:32 I hope that we get an actual horror Medea movie. I mean, the thing is, there were some moments as a big horror fan myself. I am always rooting for a movie like this to go into its horror bag just as much as its comedic bag.

Starting point is 00:03:46 I'm not asking this to become a full horror movie. I like a good horror comedy. I would say that this is mostly just, yeah, kind of a hangout. comedy with a bit of a it's so hard to talk about because it's like this movie has more of a focus than some of them do but it's still got a kind of broad all over the placeness about it yeah this feels like a couple versions of what this movie could have been and part of me was really rooting for this to become some sort of anthology i almost wish that the boo movies could be like the treehouse

Starting point is 00:04:18 of horror is to the simpsons where it's like they exist outside of the continuity so you can do stuff with your ensemble that you couldn't normal do. And so part of me was sitting here wishing that like you got Brian's house. That's a location. You got the frat house. That's also kind of a location into itself. And you've got just the surrounding area, which, you know, in a place like Atlanta, a place like Georgia, you know, you've got a lot of spooky, you know, locations you could probably historic and or rural locations you could go to. They had their like horror lighting on point. There was some good stuff with like, you know, the fog rolling in and everything. Yeah. But it is a very, like this, I guess the,

Starting point is 00:04:55 best thing I could say about this movie is that it does feel Halloween in the sense that this does kind of feel like a madcap night with a bunch of friends you've been hanging out with. Sure. True. You know, again, it's not my favorite of the Medea movies as, again, a person who is very much rooting for this scenario to work. Yeah. It didn't quite embrace the opportunity as much as it could have. but that said it did you know commit to being a you know a fun light spooky Halloween movie

Starting point is 00:05:31 sure and so I wouldn't be upset to have this on during Halloween season as part of the rotation the broad rotate this little maybe an earlier in the season for the horror uh candy bowl rotation I would love to see a boo Medea story at the Humphrey house for sure it would be great I love that come on in Medea smack me around or something or, you know, just ramble at me for a while. I would love it. But, you know, fun.

Starting point is 00:06:00 The supporting cast really ranged. I don't know if we ever discovered who, who was. Some of these folks on screen, I wouldn't be surprised if they were like an influencer or a social media person coming in to play a character, especially the guy who was whatever, Joseph. Yeah, he's flusy, flusy, too. Oh, Jonathan?

Starting point is 00:06:18 Yeah, yeah, Jonathan. I thought he was Keemster, but now that was a different guy. Which, you know, like acting. appropriately for the movie but very like silly sketch over the top a little less feature motion picture produced with Hollywood money but you know everybody showed up to have fun

Starting point is 00:06:37 you know we learned some stuff we stood up Brian I like that they focused in a little bit on Brian the pause of that so many things just happened I like the idea that they would do that I mean you know we get a bit of a Tyler family drama amid all this stuff and then a very elaborate prank versus prank scenario which is also another sort of classic movie trope so it's a bit of a mess but it's a more fun mess than some of

Starting point is 00:07:04 them maybe not as tight or as cohesive a mess as some of the other ones uh yeah this is all right there you go okay and jonat tissue guys i want you to look at these walls like this is studio a and this picture is of studio b you know what's been hanging on these walls Displates that we bought with our own money. No sponsorship. Why am I specifying that? Because today, we actually have a Displate sponsorship. Even Coyendra's solo channel has a whole wall of these things.

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Starting point is 00:08:50 They have the mirror. They have the mirror. They have, gosh. Of course, apparently. Tyler Perry. No, I actually enjoyed this one and the last one. Like, I think this has met my expectations because I don't have very high expectations for Tyler Perry movies. I know this is kind of, I'm sorry to be like very straight.

Starting point is 00:09:07 You. Jesus. But like, this was goofy and silly and fun. And like I was riding that wave. Yeah. Until it hits the very, like the family coming. and I'm like, okay, I can expect this from Tyler Perry. But I think you said this earlier, right?

Starting point is 00:09:28 Tyler Perry doesn't, doesn't have kids. He's not married, nor does he have children. So, like, where is that coming from? I don't know. He's been married and had children on screen for years. It's the same. Vicariously. He's been blending and he's, like, losing himself in the role.

Starting point is 00:09:43 I don't know. Yeah, like, honestly, like, when that hits, I'm like, if because the acting is not like, Shakespearean and so great, they kind of especially with the Tiffany character like it's not selling it kind of just looks like not great acting but no I mean again not to be so hard

Starting point is 00:10:01 on it honestly it's a fun Halloween movie characters like you know Bam and Hattie doing their thing feels like a elongated sketch so it's fun and silly in such an appropriate way

Starting point is 00:10:15 being a Halloween movie again not coming into it with not very high expectation and like we kind of somewhat can be it can be predictable but not in like a terrible way again because I didn't have extreme expectations

Starting point is 00:10:31 so yeah the only thing I bump into is like the mirror thing and not like we never got the explanation but do we have to and then secondly they explained it they hacked into the plumbing they hacked into the plumbing which in turn affected

Starting point is 00:10:47 the mirror somehow they rigged the mirror They rigged it with some electrical... Of course. They put some specific wires behind the mirror pane that would heat up in that exact script so that when the mirror fogged over

Starting point is 00:11:03 they would, yeah, or they would cool it down. I don't know, whatever gets you that effect is what they did. That's just mirror science. Yeah, that's how that works. No, I... I had fun with this one. It's so weird because I'm doing

Starting point is 00:11:19 I'm doing a lot of the reactions with Jackie Halloween and this is the first one I'm dressing up for That's a Halloween like I guess Well this is different These is different Those were Halloween all day every day This is Halloween for Halloween's sake Yeah absolutely absolutely

Starting point is 00:11:37 But yeah how about you Aaron How did you feel about everything This was an interesting one Okay here we go No no no no I actually had fun with this one I will say I had a lot of fun with this one. Was there a lot of ramblings going on? Of course.

Starting point is 00:11:53 Is there a lot of commentary about things we've seen in other Tyler period movies with the exact same messaging? Of course. Yeah. But I will say I didn't. After coming off of a comedy, comedy loosely with a movie like Medea's Big Happy family, I'm happy to say that I did have some laughs within this movie. So for that alone, this crosses the bar onto the, I wouldn't say it's top tier Tyler Perry, but it's like, it's like middle of the road, Tyler Perry. It's not bottom of the barrel, but it's like, it's just like, all right.

Starting point is 00:12:29 This is, this is fun. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would agree. The stuff that I thought was interesting from a commentary's point of view was the amount of time we spent on the how we discipline our kids thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, because the conversation went on for a while and went and certain. And then just this knowledge of Tyler Perry's own upbringing with, you know, his father being like a hardworking disciplined man, but also being a very staunch disciplinarian with, I think, bordering on abuse. It's interesting the line in which Tyler Perry's kind of found himself in with this perception of how children should be handled, especially for someone who doesn't have kids themselves.

Starting point is 00:13:13 but also just the idea of physical action, physical violence is something that's very common within a black household, black community. It's something that, you know, my cousins grew up getting wept in just like different sort of scenarios for punishment. And just the idea of I need to physically put hands on you. I need to put a belt to ass because you have done something wrong stems back from slavery. So it's just like, oh, the fact that we're just like still. And it's something that granted a lot of older black people kind of stand by and especially in the South.

Starting point is 00:13:55 So it was funny in an interesting way to see someone who's progressive like a Brian character. But I don't know if it's specifically him who's progressive that. They're just like, oh, you a bitch. And like, oh, you just like, nobody respects you. I was just like, is that what they're trying to say about progressive people as a whole when it comes to discipline their kids? Or is that specifically Brian? They're like, oh, you're soft and you get walked over because you don't have, you don't have a backbone because you don't discipline your kids. And I was like, what is Tyler Perry trying to say within this scenario?

Starting point is 00:14:28 I think that part I found to be interesting slash perplexing. I would love to, I don't know, just like understand that a little bit more. Sure. But some of the other stuff was just a little ridiculous, just over the time. top in a way that didn't make sense. Like the mirror thing. Like the fact that they get. You talk about it.

Starting point is 00:14:47 They're slayed it. The things that fried me the most were one, the fact that I wonder if Tyler Perry believes that Liza Koshy is black because she looks black, but she's very much not black. So it's very funny. Indian people are the black people of Asia. Sure. You know. My God.

Starting point is 00:15:09 And I stayed by that. statement. He's 100% serious. Oh my gosh. That's right. I'm being serious. This is a fact. But also it's a comedy and things are obviously hiding over the top.

Starting point is 00:15:22 Absolutely. But especially in Tyler Perryverse where the police just allow you to just like talk shit to the kids outside of the frat house and then immediately sent them to the prison bus and then everybody just believes it. It was just so ridiculous. I couldn't help but just find it hilarious and funny. No, exactly. That's exactly what. I guess that is the, yeah, it's like there's a peripheral ridiculousness that this movie has that's kind of unique because so many disparate things have to go specifically for this whole movie to look like it does. Right.

Starting point is 00:15:54 So, yeah, you get to the end and they're like, okay, I get it. They're pranking them. These aren't even the real cops. And they're like, no, these are the real cops. And I was like, wait, I mean, why are the real cops agree to half this shit? Yeah, the other cop speaking every language and the, yeah. Yeah, the fake Chinese. Love it.

Starting point is 00:16:12 Yeah. Love to see. What's the note there? The fact of the subtitles is just like, call that out was so funny to me. Yeah, definitely. Brian feels like a different character in this movie. Yes. Brian is whoever which movie needs him to be.

Starting point is 00:16:25 Yeah. You guys have to see more Tyler Perry movies in like a more short, short span of time. You and Greg Ragg to them like over a year ago. Would you say that outside of this movie, he's a different in every movie as far as like how they characterize him? I would say, oh, go. Going up, please. After you. Go ahead. I think there are a handful of Brian's that we've witnessed so far.

Starting point is 00:16:45 Sure. I think every once in a way, like, when we first met Brian in the first movie, I remember thinking to myself like, oh, he's one of the more grounded characters with one of the more nuanced things to do. And actually, his performance in that movie, I think, was like kind of tempered and nice. And then the next time I saw Brian, I was like, whoa, what happened here? Or at least, like, the way his performance was out of it. of makeup and out of all that's like suddenly felt a little odd and then yeah i don't have like

Starting point is 00:17:13 the every specific off the dome but i feel like we have witnessed competent brian we have witnessed like woefully barely keeping it together brian like yeah but he seems to be whatever they need him to be for this movie's purposes right and sometimes that includes being a very competent federal lawyer or whatever yeah yeah because in the last one we watched as a time we're recording this which was witness protection witty p he was very much like good at his job very caring very warm and then this one he was like the guy who couldn't like catch a break he thought it'd be disrespectful right and just the way that he was talking and and bantering something about it felt more medea-esque in his performance yeah which i thought was

Starting point is 00:17:59 interesting this is the most he's felt like a member of their family yes for sure yeah because i'm like normally i'm like okay there's very distinct brian this very distinct joe and very distinct Medea but this time I'm like you kind of bling blurring the lines a little bit especially with Medea going to the deeper register like sounding more like Tyler Pear and more like Brian I'm like okay we're kind of blurring the lines and in some capacity here choice too because they committed to that in this movie I feel like they have done it there maybe it was witness protection I feel like there have been prior movies where there'll be like a line or like a moment and it's just one and then you say to yourself I wonder if that was like a break on set but

Starting point is 00:18:37 then they decided it would be more fun to keep it in the movie. Like, you know, we've seen in the bluepirs, he'll go out of Medea voice real quick and jump back in. Whereas here, that was like a note that they were playing from time to time. Legitimately, yeah. And it's funny. This is the most I've ever been like, wait a minute. Is Joe, he's always making fun of her for being huge and also like calling her a man.

Starting point is 00:19:01 Right. Is, are we about to like legitimize this further? Right. Are we just like having fun and goofing off? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like the joke continues where it's not a joke anymore. Like, yeah. There are moments where she does it and just like, I can't tell if I'm supposed to be absorbing more layers to this thing than not.

Starting point is 00:19:19 No, definitely. And I agree with like with Brian the first two Tyler Perry movies, which is what Diary of Mad, Black Woman and then the other, what's the other one? I can't remember for it wasn't, was it my family or jail? Maybe family union. Those two Brian's, again, survey, like what John said was. There's a purpose of him being very grounded and kind of just level-headed. And then, like, witness protection, that's the same kind of Brian. We got those.

Starting point is 00:19:44 But this one, because it's a comedy and leaning towards just comedy, it serves that purpose of adapting to his comedic chops. But again, like, in the context of we're seeing, especially with witness protection, it's very in his job, right? Yeah. This one is just the domestic kind of father figure that he's not dealing with anything in literally his practice. practice, he's, okay, we get the Brian at home.

Starting point is 00:20:08 There's nothing at the, like, none of the Simmons rambling applies to his job. Right. Yeah, exactly. And now finally we get to see him do it at home. Right. Exactly. Exactly. So yeah, I feel as if Brian, like this one has been the most revealing of Brian.

Starting point is 00:20:25 Yes. Just because now I'm trying to remember the continuity of the stories because, like, we got the mom who was what, like, you know, recovering. movie yeah she was like struggling with addiction and he was like trying to love her and she was trying to do better but yeah that was a new one the most nuanced storyline in that movie yes definitely as i recall it yeah and uh i don't i don't know what the continuity is now i'm like does she clean her act up and then they and then started walking all over yeah and they divorced or did he get married again sure at some point that i don't recall off the top of my head and it's it's so interesting

Starting point is 00:21:03 watching movies from what 2005-2006 when he made those to a movie like 2016 and just how his filmmaking has changed over those years and the way he's able to he is someone who can play with multiple tones and the different variety of the type of writing even though the subject matters or the themes are similar if not damn they're identical to other ones yeah so i'll give him that you know he can he can have variety in the type of tone that he sort of lives in. But yeah, let's, I don't know, man. Let's see what the next one has to offer.

Starting point is 00:21:41 Let's go full horror next time. Like, I do agree. He does multiple tones, and he's demonstrated that even amid the proprietary mess of all that, he can nail some of those tones. And I would love to see him nail like a legit horror. Or a more synthesized horror comedy that is mostly comedy. Like, they let you know. They don't let you like, I was like, you could lend

Starting point is 00:22:04 a little bit more suspense to the sequence where they're messing with them in the house before you make it very obvious that they're being pranked on or something. Let's see if we have any Medea questions today. Let's see if we have any boo questions. Yeah, yeah. Oh, there it is. He passed it. There it is. Survey says.

Starting point is 00:22:22 No questions. People don't give a shit. She won't give a damn about Medea. About what we think about Medea. Even Jay Rushden isn't here. Oh, my gosh. Wow, Jay. Wow, Jay.

Starting point is 00:22:33 Jay can't even can't sit through Medea. Jay Rushden is our blackest patron. He is not here. I don't know actually if he is or not. Yeah, all there's a comment, a single comment. Julian says,

Starting point is 00:22:43 hope they do the sequel as well. So do I, all right. I would love to watch. I want a boo every few years. I want them to be treehouse of horror. I want my Tyler Perry saw. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:22:54 Give us Medi saw, please. Medesaw. This could have been really, I think, like, it would work. Not that I didn't like some of the stuff they did here. I think it would be really cool, though, if they did an anthology, even connected, like, trick-or-treat style where it's, like, kind of the same night,

Starting point is 00:23:07 kind of the same universe, but, like, have, like, oh, here's a spooky story about Joe. Here's a spooky story with Medea. Here's a spooky story with Brian. That's one with Bam, you know. I agree. And kind of let them all overlap. Like, for a second, I thought that might happen, but then it did. I guess they didn't do it.

Starting point is 00:23:22 Oh, today. What you ain't going to do? It was fun. That was fun. Okay, guys, let us know your favorite moment from the Boo franchise. Not the Boo franchise. The Moot franchise. The Booth franchise now.

Starting point is 00:23:34 There's two of them at the very least. This movie, and it played in theaters too. It did. I remember when this came out. Yeah, I remember. 2016, my God. And Boo, hold on, you passed it. Wouldn't a boot two come out?

Starting point is 00:23:46 It does not say. But she has machetes in that one. Yeah. That's cool. That comes in. There's no relevance to that. I'll come with the very next year. Okay.

Starting point is 00:23:53 Wow. That's a true horror movie fashion. That's how we do around here. This was shot in six days. What? What the hell? Whoa. The idea was conceived after watching the film top five.

Starting point is 00:24:06 In that film, Chris Rock's character enters the movie theater and sees movie goers lined up for a fictional Tyler Perry movie about Medea fighting ghosts and haunted house. The movie was also called Boo. Interesting. Do a ghost movie. Interesting. So, wow. He actually made the movie. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:24:21 Yeah. In the scene where BJ walks through the living and the actor is holding the iPad of the film script supervisor, which happened to have a BDF to the script on screen is the prop. It was improvised as cameras started rolling in on the scene. Interesting. Yeah. The character, Tiffany was played by different actress. Yeah, from The Diary of Mad Black Woman. Sadly couldn't get her back.

Starting point is 00:24:42 Yeah, we'd like that continuity. Yeah. For Lagochi, known by her fans as Little Brown girls. So this is his big influencer movie. Yeah, clearly. It looks like it. Oh, man.

Starting point is 00:24:55 And this is Patrice Lovelie's film debut as Hattie, so I guess we didn't... I guess we didn't miss anything. I like that these movies will just be like, we got a new friend here and they're our friend and they've always been our friend and you're just going to be used to that now. Yeah, exactly.

Starting point is 00:25:09 You're just going to get... Don't act like it didn't happen. Dude, they got a hell of YouTube people in this movie. Hell of YouTube. All the frat people are YouTube people. Yep. Wow, Bradley Martin. Jimmy Tatro, who drew all the dicks. He did.

Starting point is 00:25:22 Yes, he did. And he's Gorilla Grod now. Yeah, he's a gorilla grot. Wow. Do you guys have any final thoughts before we get out of here? More Tyler Perry Horror. more Medea saw let's get it going

Starting point is 00:25:33 Medesaw it's been 10 years let's get another one come on Boo three let's do it Hopefully Boo three are you guys We'll see you guys the next one Boo stay spooky stay scary Dress up

Starting point is 00:25:47 And yeah go eat some grits I'll see you later Happy Halloween Halloween

The Reel Rejects - BOO! A MADEA HALLOWEEN REVIEW – We Actually Want More Madea Horror! - FIRST TIME WATCHING

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