Boo! A Madea Halloween
Lionsgate | Release Date: October 21, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
30
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
6
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
Philadelphia InquirerSofiya BallinOct 21, 2016
It would have been better to nix the drama completely and keep Madea's Halloween outing strictly about the laughs. Read full review
50
The New York TimesGlenn KennyOct 21, 2016
The whole thing eventually devolves into the maelstrom of reactionary moralizing that is Mr. Perry’s specialty, not that any informed viewer would have reason to expect otherwise Read full review
50
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoOct 21, 2016
Tyler Perry never wants to scare you, and I assure you, he never will. Perry DOES want to make you laugh though, succeeding when jokes are bite-size and contained – but most scenes ramble on and on as Madea searches for multiple ways to land the same punchline. Read full review
40
The GuardianJordan HoffmanOct 22, 2016
Sprinkled among the desultory morass are occasional firecrackers of brilliant schtick-based comedy. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesKimber MyersOct 21, 2016
In its final moments, Boo! A Madea Halloween delivers a moral with after-school-special levels of subtlety. A jolting switch from oft-mean-spirited humor to a message movie, this comedy is unlikely to win over any new fans, but the devoted will find comfort in the familiarity. Read full review
40
TheWrapDan CallahanOct 20, 2016
The tone and plot of the film keeps swinging this way and that. Read full review
40
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 20, 2016
It’s another of Perry’s raucous and slovenly comedies of responsibility, which means that its heart is in a very old — and right — place. If only a message that was this solid equalled solid laughs. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonOct 21, 2016
At 103 minutes, this film has way too much dead weight. Scenes are repeated over and over, and some of the acting would not cut it in a school play. But in the rare moments when Tyler Perry’s Boo! A Madea Halloween is firing on all cylinders, it displays a cleverness which hints that, with more time and a few more iterations of the script, this might have been a good movie. Read full review
38
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 20, 2016
Wish it wasn’t so, I still find the character brash and cranky fun. But until Perry parts with a nickel and brings in funny people to goose his ideas into something wittier, Madea isn’t MIA, she’s DOA. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerOct 21, 2016
Madea remains a distinctive, weirdly compelling character. Maybe someday Perry will make a good comedy for her. Read full review
25
ConsequenceBlake GobleOct 24, 2016
This is another bad Perry film, but a curiously verbose one with jokes piled atop more jokes. Read full review
25
The Film StageJohn FinkOct 24, 2016
Ultimately, Boo! A Madea Holloween is a comedy with few too laughs, a stilted made-for-TV look, and weak character development. Read full review
20
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckOct 20, 2016
Although there's a long cinematic tradition of mixing comedy with scares to excellent effect — Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein being a prime example — this lackluster effort manages to be neither funny nor scary. Read full review
11
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesOct 26, 2016
The film is chockablock with terrible actors (including Tyga, in a bizarro cameo rapping at a frat party), and the jokes he gives his inferior cast to work with are stinkers. Read full review
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