The characterizations of the aunt and the uncle by Perry are funny, with some nice one-liners. It reminded me a little of Eddie Murphy playing family members in The Nutty Professor. If you don't mind the fairy-tale-ishness, it can be quite entertaining.

Tyler Perry needs to just stop.

The first Perry film with glimmers of real potential. Maybe he should ditch romance and Madea (I loved you in the plays, but in movies? not so much) and stick with family dramas.

A farrago of trite codswallop. Narratively obtuse with tectonic tonal shifts and misplaced earnestness serving as filler for a variety show of unfunny drag sketches and two parallel romantic plots, one unconvincingly sweet, the other unconvincingly horrific. I liked the fourth-wall breaking sketch over the credits better than any single part of the film.

""Trapped in the closet" fittingly describes Tyler Perry's lurid melodrama, in which characters repeatedly stumble onto others' dark secrets during living room chats." - Paul Schrodt

moving touching hearwarming life lessons

It gets very preachy toward the end. The evil mother isn't very believable. The wife-beating angle is kinda lame because I just wouldn't think a woman would be that stupid to stay with that guy. Madea is cool, and Uncle Joe (?) is funny.

Pretty good movie about family and the troubles we face. It is IMO a positive portrayal of black society as opposed to most other crap you see on film that focuses on gangs and slinging the rock.

. Bad

a must see for the whole family

great funny movie

I don't get it.

Incredibly creepy, in so many ways. I don't particularly want to think about it enough to enumerate them. Other than the fact that Maya Angelou is in it, which is fucked up! Or maybe not. I don't know. My sister loves it, which I also find a bit creepy. That's why I watched it. I'd sorta rather I had not.