Shawn's Meet the Browns Review

2008 Movie #40 - Meet the Browns

Ah movie #40 and I'm still not even caught. There's a good chance I could crack 50 movies by the end of the week. That's quite an important milestone...and a sad one in some way. I really hope that my 50th movie is a whole hell of a lot better than my 40th cuz my god.

I'm not overly familiar with the works of Tyler Perry. I watched some of Madea's Family Reunion and shut it off rather quickly, knowing I would never ever go back and finish it. It was just irritating to watch. Other than that, I knew that most people (critics and audiences alike) hate the movies yet they still go on to make shit loads of cash. After watching Meet the Brows, Perry's success completely baffles me. If this is the kind of stuff he generally releases, then I really have no understanding of what is making this man popular.

I won't lie, I did not watch this in a theatre and thank god for that. I was watching a download but still could hear the audience's reaction of course. The audience who was watching this showing laughed hysterically at anything. I would actually have to rewind the movie just to try and find the fucking joke. I would say that 90% of the time I had no clue what they were laughing at. Maybe they were laughing at how bad the movie is but sadly I just don't have much faith in that.

I am now seriously so confused about Tyler Perry's success. Yes I haven't seen any of his other movies but I have read in numerous places that Meet the Brown's is essentially like all of his other ones so I'm choosing to take that at face value. The plot is nothing you haven't seen 1000 times before, and usually done better at that. The characters are way too over the top and a couple of them are so fucking irritating I would mute the movie until they went away. Even seeing the characters wild, spastic gestures made me angry however.

I'm happy to have this movie behind me because it was I think the only movie I hadn't watched yet that I was absolutely dreading having to partake in. Even the list of upcoming movies is looking pretty good with very few weak links among them. In the meantime, ignore this movie and continue to ignore any other movies Perry comes out with and we'll just have to hold on to the hope that maybe he will go away.

0.5 /5