Madea's Witness Protection
Lionsgate | Release Date: June 29, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Slant MagazineCalum MarshJul 1, 2012
The film remains buoyed by the same open heart that makes Tyler Perry's best work so endearing. Read full review
60
VarietyJoe LeydonJun 29, 2012
The interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny. Read full review
60
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJun 29, 2012
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 full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJul 1, 2012
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 full review
50
Boston GlobeMark FeeneyJul 1, 2012
Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report. People who want to watch it are going to do so, regardless of what anyone says about it. And that's not even factoring in Charlie Sheen. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasJun 29, 2012
There aren't many laughs in this vaudevillian gambit, and fewer still in the fish-out-of-water comedy of Madea hosting a rich white family that's chiefly concerned with yoga, wi-fi, and their carb intakes. Still, Perry remains a true outsider artist-nobody makes movies like his. (And please don't try.) Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckJun 29, 2012
Madea is starting to look a little tired. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerJun 29, 2012
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 full review
40
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelJul 1, 2012
How much of this is actually funny is a question of taste, but even a confirmed Perry hater might get caught laughing once or twice. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJun 30, 2012
While I fully support the appearance of a new Madea movie every six months, even Tyler Perry can't be bothered to take this setup seriously. Read full review
40
Boxoffice MagazineTodd GilchristJun 29, 2012
Perry's latest is crudely assembled and mostly emotionally unengaging. Read full review
40
Time OutA. A. DowdJun 29, 2012
The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing. Read full review
40
MovielineAlison WillmoreJun 29, 2012
With Tyler Perry gradually segueing toward non-drag leading man status with "Good Deeds" and the upcoming James Patterson thriller "Alex Cross," his latest appearance as the sassy, wisdom-dispensing matriarch of the title in Madea's Witness Protection has an aura of fatigued reluctance to it, as does the film itself. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenJun 29, 2012
A spectacularly slapdash and wearingly half-hearted effort from the prolific writer-director-actor, lacking energy, structure or common sense. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenJul 4, 2012
The film is slapdash entertainment not meant to be further contemplated after leaving the theatre. Read full review
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