Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 20% (Critics) / 73% (Audience)
Directed By: Tyler Perry
Written By: Tyler Perry
Starring: Tyler Perry, Eugene Levy and Denise Richards
Studio: Lionsgate Films

Synopsis: A Wall Street investment banker who has been set up as the linchpin of his company’s mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with his family to Aunt Madea’s southern home.
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The Good:
As Madea, Tyler Perry is a comedic force of nature. Sure the humor is broad as hell and at times can come of as insultingly stereotypical and overbearingly preachy but more often than not its also funny.
This was also one of the tightest Madea films I think Perry has ever made. Usually these movies are full to bursting with subplots and side storylines involving a phalanx of extra characters that tend to make things unwieldy but he kept everything contained to the A storyline and the B subplot with both of them coming together in the end.

The Bad:
Perry is a forceful presence when in drag or dressed as an elderly and cantankerous man but stripped of the costumes and called upon to just be an actor he is bland and weak. His lack of screen presence as Madea’s nephew (and attorney) Brian makes me very unconvinced that he will be able to pull of being the leading man in the upcoming Alex Cross movie.
This was also the first time in memory I can recall not liking a Eugene Levy performance. He felt muted and apprehensive in this role. I don’t know if it was a choice on his part or the fault of the script and directing choices but he just seemed off to me.

The Ugly:
Denise Richards is the most robotic, terrible actress in Hollywood.

Final Verdict: A more streamlined film than is usually the norm from Perry but otherwise Madea’s Witness Protection does not deviate from the tried and true Perry formula. Whether that is a good or bad thing is most likely decided by what your opinion is of Perry’s oeuvre. C-