Madea's Witness Protection (2012)

All Critics (33) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (26) | DVD (2)

George's son asks for Wi-Fi, and Madea says, ''Sure, I can make you a waffle.'' That's one of the good jokes.

July 4, 2012 Full Review | Comments (5)

Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

The writer-director-star still hasn't learned to smoothly blend broad comedy and family-values sermonizing.

July 2, 2012 Full Review

A.A. Dowd

Time Out New York

Top Critic

Reviewing a Tyler Perry movie is a bit like reviewing the weather report.

July 1, 2012 Full Review

Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

Top Critic

Tyler Perry doesn't have to make sense, or a have a point. He's laughing all the way to the bank.

July 1, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Kerry Lengel

Arizona Republic

Top Critic

The interaction among opposites inspires an abundance of predictable race-based jokes, many of which have the saving grace of actually being funny.

June 29, 2012 Full Review | Comments (7)

Joe Leydon

Variety

Top Critic

A spectacularly slapdash and wearingly half-hearted effort from the prolific writer-director-actor, lacking energy, structure or common sense.

June 29, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Mark Olsen

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection is typical Perry fluff, but entertaining none-the-less. It's not his strongest Madea film, but it certainly isn't his worst. I'd peg it somewhere in the middle.

November 19, 2012 Full Review

Jeremy Lebens

We Got This Covered

Madea goes mainstream!

October 20, 2012 Full Review

Kam Williams

NewsBlaze

The frantic seventh installment in this highly successful comedy franchise is filled with throwaway gags and self-conscious scenes.

July 17, 2012 Full Review

Susan Granger

SSG Syndicate

His best and most agreeable Madea comedy.

July 12, 2012 Full Review | Comments (4)

Ken Hanke

Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Much of the film doesn't even play as Tyler Perry, but as yet another example in the evergreen "Eugene Levy slumming it for a paycheck" subgenre.

July 10, 2012 Full Review

Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

The film is slapdash entertainment not meant to be further contemplated after leaving the theatre.

July 6, 2012 Full Review

Marjorie Baumgarten

Austin Chronicle

There are laughs in it, according to the enthusiastic audience I saw it with, but they're pretty spaced out and belong to Madea. What happens between them is unremarkable.

July 6, 2012 Full Review

Grae Drake

Movies.com

A big step backwards for a star who has better things to do.

July 6, 2012 Full Review | Comments (8)

Roger Moore

McClatchy-Tribune News Service

As long as the movie focuses on Madea it is funny, and fun for the audience, but when the camera is off her the movie drags.

July 3, 2012 Full Review

Jackie K. Cooper

jackiekcooper.com

In short, a real drag.

July 3, 2012 Full Review

Brett Michel

Boston Phoenix

Perry's writing shows a disturbing amount of cynicism, if not downright meanness, for a family movie.

July 2, 2012 Full Review

Jennifer Miller

Hollywood.com

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.

July 2, 2012 Full Review | Comment (1)

Bilge Ebiri

Vulture

The mighty Madea preaches, but with less fire this time.

July 1, 2012 Full Review

S. Jhoanna Robledo

Common Sense Media

The film remains buoyed by the same open heart that makes Tyler Perry's best work so endearing.

June 30, 2012 Full Review

Calum Marsh

Slant Magazine

Perry sustains an infusion of tangy wit, as he mines the cultural and economic but primarily racial disconnects and divides of this nation. With a charmingly sweet and sour, more buoyant than boisterous Perry this time around, playfully at the helm.

June 30, 2012 Full Review | Comments (2)

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

• 1. Brian: Hey Madea!
  2. Madea: Hey Brian, Hey Brian
  3. Uncle Joe: I don't know why you leave the toilet seat up Mabel!
  4. Brian: Hey Daddy!
  5. Uncle Joe: Don't I know you?
  6. Brian: I'm past 18 now stop pretending you don't know me because of paying child support!
  7. Uncle Joe: Hey son great to see you. Love you so much!
  8. Madea: You want something to eat, i'm making sandwich for Joe.
  9. Uncle Joe: I wouldn't eat that son I wouldn't eat that at all. I believe she's trying to kill me for my insurance money!
  10. Madea: You ain't got no insurance money!
  11. Uncle Joe: In that case i'm going to eat this sandwich Mabel made
  12. Madea: I ain't trying to kill you for the insurance money i'm killing you because I want you dead, completely dead, no life in you just not breathing just maggot food!
  13. Uncle Joe: Here son try this for me.
  14. Brian: I'm not tasting that thank you!
  – Submitted by Dillon B (8 days ago)
• 1. Uncle Joe: Her butt must be hungry because it's chewing that dress alive.
  – Submitted by jalen h (6 months ago)
• 1. Madea: Excuse me while I do my Tyra Banks.
  – Submitted by Marya K (10 months ago)
• 1. Madea: Oh...um, if Randy or Jermaine or Tito call...Tell them I just can not talk right now. Imma have to call them laTer.
  – Submitted by Marya K (10 months ago)
• 1. Uncle Joe: You look like a big...bottle of Pepto Bismol
  – Submitted by Marya K (10 months ago)
• 1. Jake: You look like a bag of skittles.
  2. Madea: Yeah well when i come back up here and you still in bed you gonna tasted the rainbow.
  – Submitted by Arianna B (10 months ago)

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