Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family

Director: Tyler Perry


Producers: Roger M. Bobb, Reuben Cannon, Tyler Perry


Genre: Comedy, Drama


Writer: Tyler Perry


Released: 2011


Time: 1 hr. 46 mins.


Movie Rating: 41 %

Madea’s Big Happy Family is about Shirley’s (Loretta Devine) family. Shirley has three children, Kimberly (Shannon Kane), Tammy (Natalie Desselle), and Byron (Shad ‘Bow Wow’ Moss). Now this family has been broken up and has been in a quarrel for many years. Therefore making them anything, but a “Big Happy Family.” Now Shirley is trying to bring them together, because she has been battling cancer for the past 7 years, and now her cancer is final and she only has 6 to 7 weeks to live.So she is bring them together to tell them that she has cancer, because no one knows, except for Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis), the woman that takes care of and lives with Shirley. Though Madea has nothing directly to do with this family after Aunt Bam tells her what is going on with Shirley’s children, she takes it upon herself to get Tammy, Kimberly, and Byron to go to the dinner that Shirley is preparing to tell them she has cancer.

Okay, so if anyone has seen any of Tyler Perry’s Madea movies they would understand why these movies are so popular and great. Madea is just a plain mess, but within all that mess there’s a wise woman, to whom if you know how to look past all that mess you see that you can learn many things from her. Anyway, this movie is so funny. It literally has you laughing the entire time. For starts you have Byron’s bay mama drama, which just right there is like completely hilarious. Especially Byron’s baby mama, Sabrina (Teyana Taylor) and the way she says his name. When she says it she sounds like a siren. Then there’s Aunt Bam and her weed. Then there’s the scene when Sabrina and Madea meets at this burger place that it’s literally an OMG scene. Like in this scene you see why Madea is so crazy, like seriously. Then there’s the scene when Madea disciplines Tammy rude ass kids and she teaches them how to speak proper. “Say Heller, Heller. Okay now you know how to speak proper.” Then there’s Joe (Tyler Perry), and his (800) hotline for baby daddies who have ever had to pay child support for them crazy baby mamas, like Byron. “1-800-Choke-That-Hoe.”

Either way all together this film, like all of the Madea film, are a true comedy, but within that comedy there is always a moral to the film. So the moral or the message of this film is that you should never hold grudges against those you love, because if you do you never know when they’ll be gone, and when they’re gone then you will never have the chance to say that you love them, that you forgive them, and that you are sorry for hurting them.

My rating for this comedy, drama is defintely: <3<3<3<3<3 awesomeness