How do you solve a problem like Madea? How do you catch a cliché and pin her down? How do you find a word that means Madea? A flibbertijibbet! A stereotype! A clown! With apologies to a certain ...

Sticking to the successful formula that fueled his "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," multihyphenate Tyler Perry offers another blithely unbalanced mix of low comedy, sudsy sentiment and spiritual uplift ...

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A feisty, no-nonsense grandma ruled the box office on Oscar weekend, as “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion” remained the No. 1 movie in North America – and blew away four new films, including the ...

You know how this is supposed to work: We critics are supposed to cherry pick all the flaws and fissures in “Madea’s Family Reunion,” Tyler Perry’s follow-up to his unexpectedly phenomenal hit of a ...

When Tyler Perry’s not starring in and producing a stage play he’s written, he’s directing his own movies and developing a TV series. Sometimes he’s doing all of it simultaneously. The ultimate ...

Mabel "Madea" Simmons is a character created and portrayed by Tyler Perry. The character is a tough elderly black woman. Madea has appeared in several plays directed by, written by, and starring Tyler ...

Let's get this straight, first. No one should go to a Tyler Perry movie -- including "Madea's Family Reunion," just released yesterday -- looking for complex story lines, layered characters or ...

Big Momma with a message. Running time: 107 minutes. Rated PG-13 (mature themes, sex and drug references, domestic abuse, mild profanity). At the Empire, the Magic Johnson, the 84th Street, others.

Tyler Perry talks about his new book, Don't Make A Black Woman Take off her Earrings. Perry became rich and famous as the wisecracking, pistol-packing, advice-dispensing Southern grandmother, Madea.