The Reel Rejects - MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION (2006) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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Starting point is 00:01:49 Wow, wow, wow, give me chipper nipples. Greg, what did you think of the movie? Wow. Wow, Aaron. Wow. Yeah. You did it. You thought the last one was tonally imbalance.

Starting point is 00:02:06 Wait for the sequel. Yeah. Not as comedic, actually. No. Like they go a little bit more heightened with their sketch, but it's so much more dramatic that when there's comedy, I'm like, this just does not belong in this movie. It had a, you know.

Starting point is 00:02:28 know it had had a lot it was a lot i know it's fun enough i actually enjoyed this movie more than the last one oh don't get me wrong i love this movie i don't want anyone to misunderstand maybe i don't love it for the reasons people mobby to love it for i'm sure i annoyed the shit out of people during this and i i will embrace that i thought that it was just such an odd excuse like i do you guys how like weird this do you it's a weird movie like these two movies back to back as a package make it even weirder i'm sure it only gets weirder as it goes on at least like when i see the the like the titles for other ones they they seem like they're just straightforward comedies maybe like medea goes to jail medea boo Halloween i'm like okay there's got to just be like

Starting point is 00:03:21 silly films right sure but these with their commentary on modern day black culture mixed with sketch comedy and like rich abusive narcissistic assholes but you know victimized women who need to stand up for themselves and then learn to face their emotions so they can accept a good guy in their life to help rescue them out of it's such like this straight and like Christian values it's a very strange commentary film that is remarkably disjointed in everywhere like this structure to this is so strange like it is a stranger structure than the last movie by a lot because at least that one things at least seem like they they cut around evenly in some way whereas here like Kiki Palmer seems like oh she's going to be the main

Starting point is 00:04:17 story yeah and then then you're like oh wait we haven't seen for like a half hour oh we even see for like 45 I guess I had part of the story's done um Then to have like the whole thing at the reunion finally take place and then we're going to talk about like, you know, the history of black people on this land in Georgia and like, look how far we've come. And here's how you all. And I'm like, then it's just not me thinking. I'm like, so like this one and the last one are so similar in what they're doing with their characters. Like this has to be a commentary on like modern day people black culture. It has to be, like, his opinion on it.

Starting point is 00:04:59 And it's done in a way that I'm like, I don't know. I mean, like, I'm not for, I'm not a black person. So I, like, it's not going to speak to me in the way. I'm like, yeah, this, I feel like represented, obviously. Or like, I don't, I can't say I, I, I completely understand. Like, I understand the relationship dynamics and all that stuff. It's just as a movie, it all plays out in a really funky way to me. Yeah, it's doing a lot.

Starting point is 00:05:23 It's doing a lot of different stuff. And I can say some of it I generally did enjoy. Like I thought the monologues were really good in this movie. I thought Medea for as comedic as she was in her moments of that monologue in the beginning where at the courthouse was hilarious. I'm playing off of the events of the last movie, which took off her ankle monitor. But I think Medea had so much more heart in this movie. And I like the elements of it. But it's funny because we watch movies.

Starting point is 00:05:55 like obviously we watch a lot of comic quick movies gregg and i are both nerds so i think the the thing marvel got kind of called out for was like having tension scenes and then cutting to something comedy uh to kind of relieve that tension but this this one movie did it like way worse than any marvel movie i've seen going from like a really abusive scene to like a fart joke following or right before a date like romantic scene it just goes up and down and up and down. Well, it's like the revelations of the drama. The movie basically goes, drama,

Starting point is 00:06:31 comedy and or like sweet romantic is what the movie does. Drama, comedy, and the street or romantic. The comedy or sweet or romantic never seems to get bigger at all. It's just kind of the same plane. Yeah, like at all times whenever you cut back. So it just feels kind of bland. But the drama information and performances just keeps getting like so much more aggressive to the point where I'm like,

Starting point is 00:07:00 what are you going for here? Because this drama seems at times it feels like kind of in the writing, it feels like a little force. I'm so sorry, I totally cut you off here. Because, yeah, it just felt like a little force. It's a lot. No, I mean, I think the drama is very, I don't see heavy handed. But I guess it does lack that sense of nuance.

Starting point is 00:07:20 And like, hell, maybe you don't need nuance to show. abuser but you do get a little bit of it like in some of the writing like okay you get the sense he's insecure and like he doesn't want to be left and then you get like a little bit of why she is the way she is and it makes sense as far as the writing I definitely it's weird because I can empathize with the characters and the experience of what was going on but I never felt emotionally pulled into it it was like I was like wow this is the feelings I would be feeling in my head but I never felt in my body and it was a very strange experience to have

Starting point is 00:07:55 that being said I did enjoy the stuff that I was watching I think the comedy of it some of it worked for me and I think the heightened nature of the drama sometimes came off a little comedic as well even though there were scenes that definitely were I was like ah this is scarier this is like heart wrenching or I'm in such disbelief or shock

Starting point is 00:08:15 that this is happening right now like especially the revelation of the fact that she was abused as a child by her stepdad. She was R-worded. And yeah, and the mom was complicit in that. Mom, like, prostituted his daughter off in a way. Yeah, it's wild. That's what I mean.

Starting point is 00:08:32 Like, it's, it's so, it's so mean. To the point, in, in terms of its drama that there's a version of dramas that do feel like, the word sometimes is misery porn where you're like, let's just write like the most, because I could just write in, like the most heavy shit

Starting point is 00:08:48 and all because it's so heavy. it's going to be like effective and strong and i think the performances often save the scenes in a lot of otherwise a lot of moments that would be um a little laughable and just like how like we know which it's like pretentious and in the and how mean it's going for so when it goes to the scene to like that scene for example like i think the woman who plays the mom is great i love how um unforgiving of a character she is and how committed the mom is to that like she is so far past a point of accountability that she will immediately deflect or blame like i like there's actually out of all the characters in the way they're done

Starting point is 00:09:35 i really really liked her a lot and the the abusive guy carlos he's scary he's really great i like how in public he does seem like he can like literally taunt her and antagonize her with a smile on his face in front of a group of people while she's terrified like i thought he was really scary the daughter who the one who was um greatly abused as a kid she was an excellent performer as well i thought she was very strong tyler parry's very believable as medea and as joe so yeah i mean the movie has its moments it's just the movie as the movie never finds like a to me like a solid flow or like okay now it's now that's 30 minute mark we are grooving and this is good yeah like it's just the it comes and goes in like certain scenes which is part of the charm to me though

Starting point is 00:10:31 that's like part of the charm is just how bizarre of like of a film this is and the awareness that Tyler Perry made it he definitely has a uniqueness in the way that he makes films he has heavy drama coupled with like almost cookie cutter romantic plots that have a light air of drama like sprinkle into the romantic right but also like messages about what it means to or how like we should be as as black people or how we should be like good Christians or like this this deeper messages and it's like all these things kind of woven together and it feels like a TV show's worth the plot put into a two-hour film and you know what watching these two movies you kind of get the sense that okay this is just how Tyler Perry makes movies and but the thing is you it's formulaic

Starting point is 00:11:25 and you know the formula but you don't know exactly how it can it go about hitting the marks of the formula which is part of the fun yeah yeah can be part of the fun fun I say very loosely even though there's like there's some really like messed up stuff in here ladies and gentlemen Gentlemen, I'm excited to shout out today's sponsor because it is an app that I have been using since before we partnered with them, which just makes my job easy. And I just get to share with you something I really do love. And that is the Acorns app. Because money's involved, I researched them extensively to make sure, like, they've got to be legit, right? You can find so many positive reviews on them.

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Starting point is 00:13:55 Thank you again. I mean, and it's weird how, like, Medea is essentially the role model character for everyone, um, especially for the women characters, but it's played by a dude. you know like it's the strange it's like it's it's a fascinating thing to me of how successful these films are yeah because i'm like okay they clearly have an audience they clearly click with people they they must i don't i don't want to speak like is this like big in black culture community or there are people like is it outside of black culture and people and there's like white dudes who are like wow who black movie i get it like who who's the main market for is

Starting point is 00:14:37 It's got to be black people. It is black people, but I feel like part of that is because for a long time, there wasn't a lot of black media made for and by black people. So with Tyler Perry being the forefront guy in that, or like, all right, we know what we're going to get. And, you know, it's, it's themes and that we've experienced and that we've seen within our own family members. So, you know, this is something that we can connect to in that sense, even though it is very heavy. It is very dramatic. it's done in a very melodramatic way but some of these things are quite realistic maybe not the way they're presented but like in the you know because drama comes from somewhere you know you're right what you know and I'm sure Tyler Perry

Starting point is 00:15:21 has known people within his life to experience some of these things so but I feel like with that being what a majority of what the media was because I feel like a lot of stuff like shows and movies were made

Starting point is 00:15:36 by people that were not black and then kind of cast black people in them so it didn't feel maybe authentic but I think we've grown since the point Tyler Perry was in his heyday with creators like Ryan Coogler with Boots Riley with Jordan Peel with Nia da Cosa so we have

Starting point is 00:15:56 we have an array of filmmakers now that give us like Issa Ray like that give us an experience outside of the cookie cutterness of Tyler Perry and hell, even Donald Glover, you know, and things like the boondocks and Atlanta make fun of the tropes of Tyler Perry content. Do they? They really do.

Starting point is 00:16:18 Okay, thank God. They have to show you some stuff. There are tropes and like it is like junk food for like the black community. We know, like a lot of black people know like, oh, this stuff isn't like good. And because he, there's a, because it's like a PG, even with its topics that they have and the fact that they threw down the R word in here. here for that backstory, it still weirdly feels like some wannabe, edgy PG-13 movie. So it doesn't quite, like, go all out either. It still feels, like, restrained and not in a complimentary way at times, you know?

Starting point is 00:16:52 And, like, yeah, because I respect what you're saying, because, like, a couple, like, the black culture films that for a long time are, like, you know, freaking slave movies or gangster films, right? those are like kind of the main things that this is what the black people get or unless you're like Denzel Washington then you're just starting a movie or something right so it's like a few and far between or like comedies right so I can I can actually appreciate that it's just that to have two movies in a row like this is the direct sequel where it is remarkably similar in character arcs and archetypes yeah that I'm like he seems like he's got a real thing he's

Starting point is 00:17:33 working out here. Yeah, there's this video that came out a few years ago of Tyler Perry like, like look at all these scripts that I wrote. I roll all of this in a month and it's just like, fucking 18 different scripts. Yeah, because it feels like you need another fucking draft. Look how productive I am with all

Starting point is 00:17:49 my different scripts. I'm like, that's not a good thing. Yeah. Like, just that's good you got those first drafts done. Like, it's hard to get a first draft. But man, like, you clearly need a little bit of free writing and some structuring. Because at times it feels like you're not, it's not as it feels like I'm, I'm watching an outline still.

Starting point is 00:18:07 Like, I'm, like, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm hearing though they're writing, not writing through the characters, but writing at us. And so, that's the part of it that I feel really can hinder these from being genuinely great films, instead of like, this is a little, like, weird, this is such a, there's nothing like it in terms of, like, how weird it is. Because it's not even weird in the way, it's a weird way of, like, how do you describe. to someone who hasn't seen it, why it's weird. I'm like, you got to just sort of watch it to see what's such strange about the experience.

Starting point is 00:18:40 Yeah, it's definitely unique in that sense. But it's fun. I have fun watching them. I have a good time. I have a lot of fun watching them. So, like, don't get me wrong. You know, as much as they're not amazing films, I think they're, I think I have a lot of, like,

Starting point is 00:18:54 a genuine amount of, like, especially with watching it with you. I have a really great time, like, just kind of making fun of watching together. You know, because I keep like, I keep, like, casting the fishing line. Like, all right, let's just, I, if there's something great, I'm going to let myself get lost to do this. It's just so weird. It's fun. It's a, it's an odd one.

Starting point is 00:19:13 It's certainly an odd one, but, you know, I enjoy watching them with you. And I know, maybe not doing the best. And hopefully, you know, you guys watch this one and it does a lot better so we can continue doing these. Because I'm having a good time. Yeah, I'm having a good time. Yeah, that's pretty much all I have to say. Do you have any final thoughts, Greg? Nope.

Starting point is 00:19:31 All right. Good, man. Tyler Perry for life. Tyler Pair for Life. All right, guys. It's been a pleasure. I hope you guys have a greatest your day. And we will see you guys in the next one or whatever we do.

Starting point is 00:19:38 Deuses. Annie. Listen, I'm having a family reunion. Ooh, Annie going to go reunite with my family. Yep. Sorry, what were you going to say? And Eminem is emceeing. What were you going to say?

Starting point is 00:19:55 I was going to say that because Annie, I feel like, is the perfect friend to bring around. You know, it's really easy that if you're not part. of the family to feel a little left out or uncomfortable when you are at someone's family reunion. Well, here's the great part. Oh, what we got? I'm the black sheep of the family. My family, all of them, extended, non-extended. They all hate me so much.

Starting point is 00:20:22 They're like, oh, why do we invite him? So if there's anyone who's going to feel comfortable, it's going to be you. Because who wouldn't want to roll up with the person that the family is. that the family loads. Ooh, yeah, you make a statement like that. Because you know what? You'd probably be there being like, you know, Craig's a good guy. Greg's an all right guy.

Starting point is 00:20:43 You know, he showed up here because he loves you. Unfair to Greg. But then what might happen, Annie, honestly, truth be told you might discover some things about me that I'm hoping you don't actually get informed of because I don't want your opinion of me to change. You got a double life to uphold. Oh, God.

Starting point is 00:21:00 Nope, I decided You're still coming You're still coming You're part of the family Coming to the family No, it's a funeral I'm going to a funeral Ah

Starting point is 00:21:09 That's also responsible For their death That's what's happening Oh I still want you to come with me It would be a good time Annie Thank you Anna for being here Happy Halloween

Starting point is 00:21:19 This is not a trick But certainly a treat It's a treat

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The Reel Rejects - MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION (2006) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!

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