What makes Tyler Perry Movies so Good?

[JackT]

The guy can just do no wrong.

[withahip]

Is this the Madea guy? The gf loves him.

[tonywojo]

The guy can just do no wrong.

best clip for us ignoramusses?

[JackT]

best clip for us ignoramusses?

Oh it would be quite impossible to select just one clip. The interlocking nuances of the film invariably create a whole that is much more than the sum of the parts.

[tonywojo]

Oh it would be quite impossible to select just one clip. The interlocking nuances of the film invariably create a whole that is much more than the sum of the parts.

like synergy

have u heard of the term reciprocal synergy?

[black francis]

This is all you need to know



I see an Oscar in Tyler Perry's future.

[withahip]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/21/movies/21made.html

And the best parts of “Madea Goes to Jail” — in which the law catches up with this uncompromising, unruly matriarch — are her muttering, motormouthed harangues. The rest of it is a fairly clumsy tale of sin and redemption, involving a young assistant district attorney (Derek Luke) whose impending marriage to a colleague (Ion Overman) is disrupted when he runs across a childhood friend (the former “Cosby Show” moppet Keshia Knight Pulliam) fallen into a life of prostitution and addiction. Mr. Luke and Viola Davis, who plays a minister, are superb actors (Ms. Pulliam is pretty good, too), and at times their intensity is almost too much for the movie, making the transitions from raw emotion to silly humor all the more jarring.

There is something both satisfying and frustrating about “Madea Goes to Jail,” which opened Friday without advance press screenings. Mr. Perry dutifully gives his audience what it wants, but you can’t help feeling that he might also have more to offer: more coherent narratives, smoother direction, better movies. Still, as long as he has Madea — a force of nature and now something of a pop-culture institution — he might not need any of that.