CreoleInDC / Sissy TV: Review of "Meet the Browns"

We braced ourselves for the previews, of course, knowing that a lot of crazy usually comes before a Tyler Perry movie. Well...they weren't crazy. In fact...I can't even REMEMBER the previews but I do know they weren't ghetto fab which ALWAYS is a good thing.

The movie opened with our girl, of course and we were shocked at how awful she looked. Makeup...horrid. Hair...horrid. Just a hot mess. But hey...this is ANGELA right? ANGELA BASSETT! If she looked awful it's for the role because she is a YALE TRAINED AND EDUCATED AWARD WINNING ACTRESS RIGHT? RIGHT? This is ANNA MAE for goodness sake! ANNA MAE!

Well...with that thought I waited...and waited...and waited for this movie to shine as only Angela could make it.

NOT.

The movie was sooooooo awful that it made, arguably, one of the greatest actresses ALIVE...a bad, bad, method actor ala Just Jack from "Will and Grace."

*sigh*

Nobody but Tyler Perry could make Angela Basset SUCK. I'm convinced.

Okay...moving on.

The story? Sucked. It's like it came out of no where. It was typical. The people from the hood doing bad as most folks are in Tyler's movies (either very bad or very good...no regular folks) and things just getting worse. There's always somebody with some drugs, always a stereotypical way for them to get out of the hood, this time basketball and before you know it they are driving Escalades and wearing Louboutins.

In the middle there is bafoonery, shucking and jiving, a Latina brick throwing mami, deadbeat dad, pimps, hos, daycare issues and a church scene that went on, as Sissy said, for five minutes longer than it should have.

Brown? He's a clown. Hands down. On the town. On the way a'round. Who can't be found. But who should be pound-ed with a mound...of bricks.

The end? They get married, of course, because everything always ends happily ever after. Always.

I kept waiting for Madea and you KNOW that's bad. Seriously. *sigh* Madea's scene was all of 60 seconds and CLEARLY didn't belong in the movie. As Erica B. stated...it's just a set up for "Madea Goes to Jail" the straight to video movie Mr. Perry is releasing in the very near future.

There were no big laughs in this movie and all the characters were the same ones you've seen before. The only believable character in the movie was played by Jennifer Lewis. LOVED HER! But it wasn't enough. *sigh*

Move along...move along...Nothing to see here folks.

This movie SUCKED!

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