- Like most of Perry's movies, this one oscillates wildly and shamelessly between raunch and pathos, leaving plenty of room for the performers to work. The lively ensemble includes a scene-stealing Cassi Davis as pothead Aunt Bam.
- Epitomizing the shrill franchise's schizophrenic tonal shifts, Madea metes out Christian life lessons with one hand -- and righteously bitch-slaps with the other.
- The title is meant to be ironic. Too bad irony is in such short supply in Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family. Sadly, subtlety is also missing.
- If Perry gets on your wavelength, you can forgive him too. He's only the host at a home-cooked banquet of wild emotions.
- 'Madea's Big Happy Family' nonsensically knots the spiritual and the salacious, asking gossipy questions then giving pulpit answers so that the movie is wonderfully, woefully absurd.
- Perry possesses a superb ear for the themes and emotions that connect him to his core audience, and that's on display again here, though the unconverted might grumble that the movie's many riffs and rants feel recycled from previous offerings.
- 'Family' offers Mr. Perry's signature ingredients: multiple subplots; a Southern setting; and broad comedy, florid melodrama and inspirational Christianity, tossed together with an almost slapdash lan.
- Madea's Big Happy Family plods from one scene to the next at a deliberate pace, repeatedly betraying its theatrical roots as each new conversation or confrontation plays out like the latest in a series of segments in a stage revue.
- Alas, Madea's Big Happy Family is defined by a dearth of plausible human behavior; everything is pitched to jarring emotional extremes of good and evil, joy and pain, chitlin'-circuit broad comedy, and melodramatic speeches.
New York Daily News
4/22/2011 by Elizabeth Weitzman
[Perry has] recycled the same material so many times, it's starting to turn rancid.Entertainment Weekly
4/22/2011 by Owen Gleiberman
Now that I've stated what feels like the inevitable complaint about Terry Perry's tendency toward overly shrill, broad bombast, let me say: While I was watching Madea's Big Happy Family, I couldn't deny that it plays.- Tyler Perry's signature character returns to kick more butt in this raucous comedy.
- If he's moving on from Madea, and 'For Colored girls' and his next couple of announced projects suggest he is, at least Perry's doing right by the old broad, letting her bow out like one big, wise-cracking mother of a momma.
- Is so obnoxious, annoying, unfunny, and downright hateful, that watching lunatics freaking out on stage during a paternity episode of Maury Povich would be better received.
- 'Madea's Big Happy Family' is a facetious title; there's not a happy one in the bunch. Eventually, neither is the viewer.
- The odd thing about Tyler Perry is that just when you think he may be turning a corner and evolving, he goes into retrograde.
- Perry's performance of Madea [feels] flatter and more strained than he ever has in the role.
Austin Chronicle
4/29/2011 by Marjorie Baumgarten
Deathbed scenes and colonoscopy humor, Bible quotations and Maury Povich 'Who Is the Real Baby Daddy' episodes: All cohabit with equal relevance in the world of Tyler Perry.- ... Tyler Perry goes to the Madea well once too often and comes up dry.
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