Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween Review

PG-13: sexual references, drug content, language and some horror images

Lionsgate, Tyler Perry Studios

1 Hr and 41 Minutes

Cast: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Yousef Erakat, Diamond White, Lexy Panterra
Andre Hall, Brock O’Hurn, Tito Ortiz

INTRO: I hope Chris Rock is getting some sort of check because if it wasn’t for his film ‘Top Five’ (which is really good), we wouldn’t have ‘Boo! A Madea Halloween’ let alone ‘Boo 2! A Madea Halloween.’ I love you Chris Rock but if it wasn’t for you, we would’ve been free from this shit.

Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the boogeyman are unleashed.

THE GOOD

I CAN'T HELP MYSELF OKAY

This is a Madea movie. Odds are you’re going to get a good chuckle here and there. I’m not going to lie, but I laughed in this plenty more times than I did in 'CHIPs' and 'Baywatch' which was like cricket fest films. But you know what I appreciated about something like those two movies? Despite those films not delivering on the laughter, at least there was production value behind them.

THE BAD

Where do I start? How do I express my anger in a calm like manner?

Earlier this year, I hailed ‘Detroit’ as my #1 movie of 2017 as of this date. After I proclaimed that statement, a lot of critics came out suggesting that a white director should not helm a film that focused primarily on African-Americans. As an African-American, I officially welcome every Caucasian who desires to make a film centered on black people because lord knows Tyler Perry isn’t doing us any goddamn favors.

I'm just going to do you a favor and give you the link to my review of the last movie. HERE YOU GO! Now after you're doing come back here.

You might be questioning, why did I link you to the previous 'Boo' review? Every single word that is bought up in that review can be applied to this.  Why? Well, it’s because THIS IS THE SAME FUCKING MOVIE AS LAST YEAR BEAT BY BEAT! There is no real story behind ‘Boo 2’  because it follows the same exact formula as ‘Boo’ from 

- Tiffany the hardheadedly bitchy teenage daughter of Brian messing around with frat boys who plan to have a party,

- To Brian being a spineless straight man and taking crap from everyone;

- To Madea and her friends going out to get Tiffany but get spooked by the least terrifying of things;

- To Tiffany’s friend being cautious and anxious about her safety;

- And to Tyler Perry going in and out of voices when he’s not playing one character;

This takes place one year after the first movie, and nobody has learned a goddamn thing. Its as if you could’ve been watching the first film again. Its bad, but it's a bit entertaining, to say the least.

WHY IS THIS IN THE THEATER?!

As I mentioned earlier, I laughed more in this than films like 'CHIPs' and 'Baywatch', at least they had a budget and some production value. While watching those movies, at least I got the sense that they were movies. Last year I believe I said that the predecessor had the production value of a BET movie. Well, you know what? I’m going to go lower because, within the time span between October 2016 and October 2017, BET released 'The New Edition Story' which was both good and had money behind it so I can’t make that comparison anymore. So instead I’ll gladly say that this shit bears the production value of something that would be on YouTube Red. The movie has several YouTubers in the cast, so this might as well go straight to that.

UPDATE: WAIT I JUST RE-READ MY ORIGINAL 'BOO' REVIEW, AND I SAID THE SAME EXACT THING ABOUT THIS BEING ON YOUTUBE RED! SEE WHAT HE’S DOING TO ME?!

It is incredibly sad that Perry’s first feature as a director was 2006’s ‘Madea’s Family Reunion' which may have a low budget behind it, but still had the quality to make you feel like you were watching something of theatrical. As the years kept going, Perry made improvements as a director, actor, and writer. The Madea movies got better, the stories of his dramas got complex, and he sort of became a better actor. 

All of that shit peaked once ‘Madea’s Witness Protection’ came out which was nothing but two hours of Tyler Perry going from his three personas and having poor Eugene Levy, Denise Richards, and Doris Roberts endure his fucking shenanigans that felt more like an endurance test than a movie. Then we had 'A Madea Christmas' which I have never seen in full because I wasn’t going to torture myself with both Madea and Larry the Cable Guy. But with what little I saw on TV, I saw some of the theatricalness and value.

But now this son of a bitch has made a sequel based on a film that was based off a joke Chris Rock made in his movie and it is as pathetic as it sounds. What happened Tyler? You fucking worked with director David Fincher. You should at least learn a thing or two about directing from him. No, you do this shit instead. You do an entire deja vu repeat of your last movie with this movie and it's worse primarily because,

- The jokes are barely funny for its the same seven jokes on repeat.

-The editing is atrocious where you see Perry going from Madea face in one shot and Joe in the next but whoever is talking to them is only shown from an over the shoulder angle because Perry apparently didn’t have the money to use standard VFX to put himself in two places. OH WAIT HE DID WITH EVERY OTHER MADEA MOVIE PRIOR TO THIS!

- The acting is on sitcom level of terrible where it briefly makes the 2017 Wimpy Kid film look like a masterpiece.

- The jokes are never funny at all.

- And most of all its offensively misogynistic.

OH YEAH! This man singlehandedly wrote this entire “script,” and his character Joe isn’t only just making “I used to be a pimp jokes,” but there is an extensively uncomfortable scene where he is hitting on a 17-year-old girl in a car, and it just makes you cringe. There’s no satirical subtext to Bill Cosby with it, its an actual scene of this old man telling a 17-year-old girl, “If you were 18 I would’ve made you feel like a woman.”

You know what Tyler Perry?

It is no denying you are clearly making no effort with your movies so why should I make an effort to review your shit? You clearly can’t write good jokes. You can’t write a decent story. You can’t write complex characters like you used to let alone get in touch to with how a teenage college boy or high school girl would act for all you can write is stereotypical characters that make us everyone look stupid. You have demeaned yourself to the Marlon Wayans level of coonery, and I’m tired of both your films and you. Fuck man, you didn’t even give critics a screening to see your shit. We all have to pay for your shit in order for us to review because lord knows we were going to trash it in the long run.

But you may ask, wait since you paid for this aren’t you part of the problem? Isn’t that what made ‘The Emoji Movie’ successful? OH I GOT A STORY FOR YOU!

STORYTIME!

So I went to a Thursday 7 pm showing of the movie with my friend who I dragged because if I were going to kill myself in that theater, I would need a friend to prevent me from doing it. It was her second Madea movie while her first was the first ‘Boo’ (I know, lucky her) while this is my umpteenth. While we were watching the movie, I’m just dreading for the credits to roll as my friend is laughing here and there. Halfway through the experience got worse.  Exactly forty minutes into the movie, a ghetto couple walked into the theater and was drunk off their shit to where they were disrupting the film as if they were home. When people told them to shush, they would mock them and say, “Bitch you shush.”They had their liquor bottle right down on the floor in front of them, so you know they were off it. They were having the time of their lives. Every time something moderately ‘funny’ would occur, the guy would go, “HAHAHA THAT’S MAD FUNNY!”

While I went,

So afterward we went to the theater’s lobby to complain to the manager, and he went “I’m sorry this happened. We even sent our security guy to investigate because others complained during the film as well.” 

First off they sent a scrawny young guy who might as well look like this dude from ‘The Simpsons.'

This guy sat literally right across of them and did nothing after like three minutes. Like the dude just left. 

We explained that part to the manager, and he goes, “So yeah. I’m sorry this happened. Here’s your refund.”

I’m telling you my face has never lit up more in my life because TYLER PERRY DIDN'T GET MY FUCKING MONEY! I saw a Tyler Perry movie for free bitch! But you know what? Those two people right there are his official demographic. 

LAST STATEMENT

If you are a drunken obnoxious asshole, ‘Boo 2! A Madea Halloween’ is the perfect film for you. But if you are a sober conscious being, avoid this lazy dumpster fire excuse of a film on presented on the silver screen at all costs. I don’t give a damn if you are a Tyler Perry fan or not because this son of a bitch is cheating you out of your money and pocketing it to make his brand bigger. Fuck this movie and fuck Tyler Perry. And fuck you Chris Rock for unintentionally birthing this.

Rating: .5/5 | 11%

uper Scene: N/A (I’m telling you there is no enjoyment in this)