Madea's Witness Protection 2012

Mark Feeney, Boston Globe: Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report. Read more

Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: A comedy that's too late to the Ponzi-scheme party to be topical, and not outrageous enough to take advantage of its own setups. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Perry remains a true outsider artist -- nobody makes movies like his. (And please don't try.) Read more

Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic: Tyler Perry doesn't have to make sense, or a have a point. He's laughing all the way to the bank. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: George's son asks for Wi-Fi, and Madea says, ''Sure, I can make you a waffle.'' That's one of the good jokes. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Even such potentially amusing comic set-pieces as when Madea goes through airport security, with predictably chaotic results, feel awfully half-hearted. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: A spectacularly slapdash and wearingly half-hearted effort from the prolific writer-director-actor, lacking energy, structure or common sense. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: It wastes the talents of not just Eugene Levy and Doris Roberts but of Perry himself, whose cross-dressing creation Madea has often been the saving comedic grace of Perry's films. Read more

A.A. Dowd, Time Out: The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: As the incredibly awkward title suggests, Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection is less a movie than it is an exercise in product branding. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: The interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: An agent of spiritual regeneration and showman, Perry's dramaturgy is as subtle as a Bible-thump, but until a logy last act that has Levy disguised as a faux-Frenchman, his instincts are on-target here. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: He's still a young guy, but all throughout Witness Protection I imagined Perry sitting glumly at a dressing-room mirror, like the aging Chaplin in Limelight, forlornly rubbing makeup in his face -- a tired, old clown stuck in a tired, old routine. Read more