It is not until Madea holds the titled family reunion that we see the women truly together and standing up for one another. It is there that the elders of the family monologue their social ...

The DVD of the stage production of "Madea Goes ... as is the evil hotel manager in "Madea's Class Reunion." They are a suspect class. In the new film, as in the film version of "Family Reunion ...

Every week, we shine a light on a few big, worthy or just plain weird DVD releases ... pictures — Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Madea’s Family Reunion and Madea Goes to Jail — managed only ...

Madea’s Class Reunion Kodak Theater; 3,400 seats; $42.50 top Production: A Peachz Entertainment in association with ALW Prods. presentation of a play in two acts with book, words and music by ...

Like most of the African American “urban musicals” of recent years, “Madea’s Class Reunion” is more of a marketing phenomenon than an artistic one. And its marketing success -- much of ...

The same tonal problems that plagued last year's "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" resurface in "Madea's Family Reunion." Serving this time as director, besides having written the script and starring ...

Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion: Comedy-drama. Starring Tyler Perry, Blair Underwood, Rochelle Aytes, Lisa Arrindell Anderson, Maya Angelou and Cicely Tyson. Directed by Tyler Perry.

Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.

Even a cast list that includes veterans such as Blair Underwood and Maya Angelou doesn't save Madea's Family Reunion. Laughing at (and not with) them is the real prize of the film.

Most of “Family Reunion” is devoted to upheavals endured by Madea’s nieces: Lisa (Rochelle Aytes), whose glam mother (Lynn Whitfield) is pushing her into marriage with a wealthy but abusive ...

Any hopes that Tyler Perry had discovered nuance during the year since his first hit movie, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, are dashed at the start of Madea’s Family Reunion, in which we meet Lisa ...

Madea (Tyler Perry) and her court-ordered charge Nikki (Keke Palmer) in “Madea’s Family Reunion.” Based upon Perry’s acclaimed stage production, the movie, opening today without previews ...