Synopsis
Madea winds up in the middle of mayhem when she spends a hilarious, haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls, and zombies while keeping a watchful eye on a group of misbehaving teens.
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Cast
- Tyler PerryMabel "Madea" Simmons / Uncle Joe Simmons / Brian Simmons
- Cassi DavisBetty Ann "Aunt Bam" Murphy
- Diamond WhiteTiffany Simmons
- Yousef ErakatJonathan
- Bella ThorneRain Mathison
- Liza KoshyAday Walker
- Patrice LovelyHattie Mae Love
- Lexy PanterraLeah Devereaux
- Andre HallQuinton
- Brock O'HurnHorse
Recommendations
- 63
Philadelphia Inquirer
It would have been better to nix the drama completely and keep Madea's Halloween outing strictly about the laughs. - 50
We Got This Covered
Tyler Perry never wants to scare you, and I assure you, he never will. Perry DOES want to make you laugh though, succeeding when jokes are bite-size and contained – but most scenes ramble on and on as Madea searches for multiple ways to land the same punchline. - 50
The New York Times
The whole thing eventually devolves into the maelstrom of reactionary moralizing that is Mr. Perry’s specialty, not that any informed viewer would have reason to expect otherwise - 40
Variety
It’s another of Perry’s raucous and slovenly comedies of responsibility, which means that its heart is in a very old — and right — place. If only a message that was this solid equalled solid laughs. - 40
TheWrap
The tone and plot of the film keeps swinging this way and that. - 40
Los Angeles Times
In its final moments, Boo! A Madea Halloween delivers a moral with after-school-special levels of subtlety. A jolting switch from oft-mean-spirited humor to a message movie, this comedy is unlikely to win over any new fans, but the devoted will find comfort in the familiarity. - 38
Movie Nation
Wish it wasn’t so, I still find the character brash and cranky fun. But until Perry parts with a nickel and brings in funny people to goose his ideas into something wittier, Madea isn’t MIA, she’s DOA. - 38
RogerEbert.com
At 103 minutes, this film has way too much dead weight. Scenes are repeated over and over, and some of the acting would not cut it in a school play. But in the rare moments when Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween is firing on all cylinders, it displays a cleverness which hints that, with more time and a few more iterations of the script, this might have been a good movie.
