Synopsis
For years, mild-mannered Wall Street banker George Needleman has meandered through life oblivious to his family's dysfunction and his company's malfeasance, but he's forced to wake up when he learns that he's been framed in a mob-backed Ponzi scheme. Placed under federal protection, George and his family are shipped down South to Madea's house, where the no-nonsense matriarch whips them all into shape using her special brand of tough love.
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Cast
- Tyler PerryMadea / Joe / Brian
- Eugene LevyGeorge Needleman
- Denise RichardsKate Needleman
- Romeo MillerJake
- Doris RobertsBarbara
- Tom ArnoldWalter
- John AmosPastor Nelson
- Devan LeosHowie
- Danielle CampbellCindy
- Marla GibbsHattie
Recommendations
- 60
Village Voice
An agent of spiritual regeneration and showman, Perry's dramaturgy is as subtle as a Bible-thump, but until a logy last act that has Levy disguised as a faux-Frenchman, his instincts are on-target here. - 60
Variety
The interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny. - 50
The New York Times
A comedy that's too late to the Ponzi-scheme party to be topical, and not outrageous enough to take advantage of its own setups. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Madea is starting to look a little tired. - 50
The A.V. Club
There aren't many laughs in this vaudevillian gambit, and fewer still in the fish-out-of-water comedy of Madea hosting a rich white family that's chiefly concerned with yoga, wi-fi, and their carb intakes. Still, Perry remains a true outsider artist-nobody makes movies like his. (And please don't try.) - 40
Movieline
With Tyler Perry gradually segueing toward non-drag leading man status with "Good Deeds" and the upcoming James Patterson thriller "Alex Cross," his latest appearance as the sassy, wisdom-dispensing matriarch of the title in Madea's Witness Protection has an aura of fatigued reluctance to it, as does the film itself. - 40
Time Out
The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing. - 40
Boxoffice Magazine
Perry's latest is crudely assembled and mostly emotionally unengaging.
