Posts Tagged ‘Tyler Perry’s a Madea Family Funeral’

RICHARD’S WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEWS FROM CP24! FRIDAY MARCH 01, 2019.

Richard joins CP24 anchor Jamie Gutfreund to have a look at the weekend’s new movies including “A Madea Family Funeral,” “Goalie, “Apollo 11” and “Ruben Brandt, Collector.”

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RICHARD’S CTV NEWSCHANNEL WEEKEND MOVIE REVIEWS FOR MARCH 1.

Richard sits in with CTV NewsChannel anchor Marcia MacMillan to have a look at the weekend’s big releases including “A Madea Family Funeral,” “Goalie, “Apollo 11” and “Ruben Brandt, Collector.”

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CTVNEWS.CA: THE CROUSE REVIEW ON “A Madea Family Funeral” AND MORE!

A weekly feature from from ctvnews.ca! The Crouse Review is a quick, hot take on the weekend’s biggest movies! This week Richard looks at Tyler Perry’s last instalment of his Madea franchise, “A Madea Family Funeral,” the Terry Sawchuk biopic “Goalie” and the animated caper film “Ruben Brandt, Collector.”

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CFRA IN OTTAWA: THE BILL CARROLL MORNING SHOW MOVIE REVIEWS!

Richard has a look at thenew movies coming to theatres, Tyler Perry’s last instalment of his Madea franchise, “A Madea Family Funeral,” the Terry Sawchuk biopic “Goalie” and the historical documentary “Apollo 11” with CFRA Morning Rush host Bill Carroll.

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A MADEA FAMILY FUNERAL: 1 ½ STARS. “like a sitcom and a soap opera had a baby.”

With the release of “A Madea Family Funeral” Tyler Perry is putting to rest his most famous character. The actor-director has been playing the elderly, sharp-tongued Mabel “Madea” Simmons on screen since 2005’s “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” but now says, “I just don’t want to be her age, playing her.”

Is the titular funeral for Madea? There will be no spoilers here but I can tell you Perry gives “Krump’s” era Eddie Murphy a run for this money, not just playing four characters in “A Madea Family Funeral,” but also writing, directing and producing. For all we know he also did the catering and best boy duties.

The set up for the action revolves around a family reunion in rural Georgia. The family, including Madea, Joe, Brian (all played by Perry) and Madea’s brother, a Vietnam war vet Heathrow (Perry again). When tragedy strikes the family must arrange a funeral (NO SPOILERS HERE!) “If I’m not in the will I tell you that funeral will be messed up,” says Joe. There’s more at stake than the money in the will, however. Personal secrets threaten to tear the once tight knit family apart.

If you are not already a fan of Madea’s rough-and-tumble humour “A Madea Family Funeral” is unlikely to convert you. Perry’s trademarked mix of slapstick, social commentary, soap opera melodrama and sentimentality is sloppily applied with scenes that recklessly veer from smiles to schmaltz at the speed of light.

The film’s funniest scene is also it’s most disturbing. On the way to the reunion Brian and family are pulled over by an over-enthusiastic cop whose escalating behaviour seems bound for a violent outcome uses humour to portray an all too familiar powder keg situation. It’s the movie’s only concession to current events. The rest feels as though Madea’s sitcom and a soap opera had a baby and named it “A Madea Family Funeral.”

CJAD IN MONTREAL: THE ANDREW CARTER SHOW WITH RICHARD CROUSE ON MOVIES!

Richard sits in on the CJAD Montreal morning show with guest host Ken Connors to talk the new movies coming to theatres including Tyler Perry’s last instalment of his Madea franchise, “A Madea Family Funeral,” the Terry Sawchuk biopic “Goalie” and the historical documentary “Apollo 11.”

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