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Tyler Perry, the Madea movies
From stage to screen, Perry has built an entertainment empire around the brash and boorish Madea—a wisecracking black grandmother played by Perry himself with fiery bravado. In movies like “Madea’s Family Reunion,” “Madea Goes to Jail” and “Madea’s Big Happy Family,” this crotchety septuagenarian serves as the central pillar of the story—a lumbering, loud-mouthed ringleader who has devolved over the years from fantastically goofy to insufferably grating. Perry’s in-your-face comedy starts out smart and sassy but quickly leaves you feeling ambushed, and Madea is a perfect case study of more not necessarily being better.
