This review summarizes the movie "Meet the Browns" and provides criticism of some of its unrealistic elements. It introduces the plot about a single mother named Brenda who takes her children to Georgia for her estranged father's funeral. There she meets her extended family, the fun-loving Browns, and finds love with a basketball scout. However, the reviewer criticizes unrealistic aspects like the age difference between Brenda and her son, her ability to afford expensive clothing and makeup while struggling financially, and Madea only having a brief cameo. The reviewer concludes that while Tyler Perry's works usually have them laughing, this movie unravels and is not as funny as his previous films.
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Here is my list of my best and worst times at the movies in 2023.
This isn't an Oscars list... this is a list of which movies gave me the entertainment factor that I was looking for
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After reading the three movie reviews, post at least two full paragraphs discussing the way they are structured and written. How do they start? What does the author do in each review? How do they support their opinion? How do they end the review? What rhetorical techniques or strategies do the authors use? How does a movie review work?
Question 1:
"Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" makes a living cleaning fish tanks and occasionally prostituting himself. How much he charges I'm not sure, but the price is worth it if it keeps him off the streets and out of another movie. "Deuce Bigalow" is aggressively bad, as if it wants to cause suffering to the audience. The best thing about it is that it runs for only 75 minutes.
Rob Schneider
is back, playing a male prostitute (or, as the movie reminds us dozens of times, a "man whore"). He is not a gay hustler, but specializes in pleasuring women, although the movie's closest thing to a sex scene is when he wears diapers on orders from a giantess. Oh, and he goes to dinner with a woman with a laryngectomy, who sprays wine on him through her neck vent.
The plot: Deuce visits his friend T.J. Hicks (
Eddie Griffin
) in Amsterdam, where T.J. is a pimp specializing in man-whores. Business is bad, because a serial killer is murdering male prostitutes, and so Deuce acts as a decoy to entrap the killer. In his investigation he encounters a woman with a penis for a nose. You don't want to know what happens when she sneezes.
Does this sound like a movie you want to see? It sounds to me like a movie that Columbia Pictures and the film's producers (
Glenn S. Gainor
,
Jack Giarraputo
, Tom McNulty, Nathan Talbert Reimann,
Adam Sandler
and
John Schneider
) should be discussing in long, sad conversations with their inner child.
The movie created a spot of controversy last February. According to a story by Larry Carroll of MTV News, Rob Schneider took offense when Patrick Goldstein of the
Los Angeles Times
listed this year's Best Picture Nominees and wrote that they were "ignored, unloved and turned down flat by most of the same studios that ... bankroll hundreds of sequels, including a follow-up to 'Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,' a film that was sadly overlooked at Oscar time because apparently nobody had the foresight to invent a category for Best Running Penis Joke Delivered by a Third-Rate Comic."
Schneider retaliated by attacking Goldstein in full-page ads in
Daily Variety
and the
Hollywood Reporter
. In an open letter to Goldstein, Schneider wrote: "Well, Mr. Goldstein, I decided to do some research to find out what awards you have won. I went online and found that you have won nothing. Absolutely nothing. No journalistic awards of any kind ... Maybe you didn't win a Pulitzer Prize because they haven't invented a category for Best Third-Rate, Unfunny Pompous Reporter Who's Never Been Acknowledged by His Peers.
Reading this, I was about to observe that Schneider can dish it out but he can't t.
Review: Daddy?s Home 2 is an indefensible group effort in failure
Meet The Browns
1. THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
‘MEET THE BROWNS’ FALLS SHORT OF SIDE-
SPLITTING
IT HAS ITS MOMENTS, BUT SOME ARE TOO FAR-
FETCHED EVEN FOR TYLER PERRY
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Section: FAITH
Edition: ONE-THREE
Page: 6E
Type: REVIEW
KIMBERLY SUMMERS, Special Correspondent
Column: KIMBERLY SUMMERS - TEEN SCREENS
Illustration: PHOTO
Caption: ALFEO DIXON - LIONS GATE ENTERTAINMENT PHOTO VIA BLOOMBERG
NEWS. Tyler Perry revisits familiar characters and themes in his latest film "Meet the Browns."
I'm usually fond of Tyler Perry productions. But to my dismay, "Meet the Browns" seemed like a
bad rendition of "Meet the Fockers." Don't get me wrong: It was funny, but I was expecting nonstop
"I can't breathe" laughter. I doubt that a giggle qualifies.
This melodrama introduces us to Brenda (Angela Bassett), a single mother raising three children in
inner-city Chicago. Oldest child Michael (Lance Gross) looks old enough to be her beau, which puts
the believability of the movie and the judgment of people in the casting department in question.
Eventually, this all makes sense, as a majority of Perry's characters can be recognized from his TV
show "House of Payne" and a plethora of hilarious plays, from which he has snagged a couple of
lines.
In the midst of losing her job, Brenda receives bus tickets to Georgia for her estranged father's
funeral. She decides to take the trip to the Deep South (big surprise) and meets the family she never
knew and basketball scout Harry (Rick Fox). Here she finds love and is eventually sucked into the
ineffable world of the fun-loving Browns.
There's Leroy Brown (David Mann), with skin-tight, rainbow-bright clothes that could be confused
with a clown's, and Vera (Jenifer Lewis), who's so crude and raw that she says what we're afraid
even to think. Leroy and Vera are arguably the only assets that make the movie funny.
Bassett and Fox play nicely alongside one another, but again casting blundered. A 5-foot-4 Bassett
looks minuscule standing next to the 6-foot-7 Fox. No fear! Give her four-inch heels, and the
problem's solved, right?
Wrong! I guess no one in wardrobe thought a woman struggling to pay for utilities and still
managing to wear pumps isn't a problem. Apparently, the near flawless makeup she flaunts in every
scene isn't, either. Then again, the unrealistic theatrical subplots don't help much either.
Perry's dramas have always been over the top, with everything snowballing toward the climax and
2. fixed in a few minutes.
Let's compare and contrast here. A young woman is left by her ignorant ex, she struggles to make
ends meet, the family she hasn't seen for a while (or ever) helps out. Suddenly a man helps her and
sweeps her off her feet. Sounds just like "Diary of a Mad Black Woman," and it's now evident why
Perry's movies take a mere 28 to 30 days to make.
But where's Madea's grand entrance? She was so randomly, quickly inserted you could miss her by
blinking. The one scene with Madea in the trailer is the only time we see her in the film.
I usually whoop with laughter at Perry's movies, but I had to wait until the end to get a good laugh
at deleted scenes. The film has early momentum but unravels and becomes monotonous, compared
to his previous movies.
When meeting the Browns, don't overstay your welcome - the results won't be too funny.
"Meet the Browns" is rated PG-13 for drug content, language including sexual references, thematic
elements and brief violence.