Tyler Perry’s seventh iteration of his Madea franchise hits theaters today, this time featuring the ghetto granny as a safe house host in “Madea’s Witness Protection.” Unsurprisingly critics remain unimpressed by Perry’s work, but no matter – for Tyler Perry, any press is good press.
Though loved by fans, and widely popular with black female audiences, there remains a strong subset of Perry haters who dislike his work and the stereotypes they perpetuate in society. Madea is by far the most loathed of his characters, a drag version of the outrageously sassy Mamie that educated black folk have grown to detest. Critics most likely wouldn’t have anything nice to say, thus explaining why Perry didn’t screen “Madea’s Witness Protection” to anyone they felt would be unkind. Nor anyone who write reviews for that matter – as of last night, few reviews could be found online for the movie at all.
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