Description courtesy of Wikipedia:
George Needleman (Levy), a high level CFO in New York City, promises his son that he will take him to his baseball game after he gets back from the office. He gets to his office and arrives to a harrowing scene. His co-workers are shredding documents and are in a state of chaos. He sees his boss who informs him that his company is a Ponzi scheme run by the mob. He is being accused of spearheading the scheme involving the mob and has to enter his family into a witness protection program. The program's location is a place that absolutely no one will think to look for them: Madea's house down south with her brother Joe and nephew Brian.
The hubby and I went to see Madea's Witness Protection this weekend. It was ok. It wasn't the best of Tyler Perry's Madea movies. Perry was funny as was Eugene Levy, but overall the acting was terrible. The story while superficially being what we have come to expect from a Madea movie had huge plot holes, and seemed to be missing large chunks of the story. The movie is pretty predictable but there were times when I was expecting something to happen and then just nothing, nothing at all happened. Also it was clear that in dealing with the issues of race and the preconceived notions different groups have about each other Perry was out of his comfort zone. In his movies that deal with topics like domestic violence he is able to write a story that is heartfelt, funny, and insightful, but this script had none of that. Madea's Witness Protection had no genuine emotion, had no revelations, and delivered very few laughs.
Have you seen it? What did you think? What's your favorite Madea movie?
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