Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4077 in DVD
• Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2008-07-01
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.com
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is a sitcom taken to the nth level. Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral, she's not sure how to feel: Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things up. (And, as a friend suggests, there's always the chance her father left her a little money.) While the film's central character grew up with incredible hardships (a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a father who didn't stick around), writer-director-actor Perry takes every opportunity to inject a little humor into the vignettes. It is not her fault that she is too gorgeous and regal to be believable in the role, but Bassett--a superb dramatic actress--is sorely miscast here in a role where her subtleties are lost in all the fuss. Meet the Browns isn't Perry's best piece of work, but the fast-paced action and raucous dialogue provide enough fun to make the film worthwhile. With his name prefacing each movie, Perry has developed a franchise that doesn't fail to deliver what his fans are accustomed to: some variation of a dysfunctional family comedy and the appearance of his most famous character Madea--a cranky grandmother played by Perry himself that manages to draw laughs, even when her inclusion sometimes is superfluous. --Jae-Ha Kim

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Amazon.com
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is a sitcom taken to the nth level. Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral, she's not sure how to feel: Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things up. (And, as a friend suggests, there's always the chance her father left her a little money.) While the film's central character grew up with incredible hardships (a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a father who didn't stick around), writer-director-actor Perry takes every opportunity to inject a little humor into the vignettes. It is not her fault that she is too gorgeous and regal to be believable in the role, but Bassett--a superb dramatic actress--is sorely miscast here in a role where her subtleties are lost in all the fuss. Meet the Browns isn't Perry's best piece of work, but the fast-paced action and raucous dialogue provide enough fun to make the film worthwhile. With his name prefacing each movie, Perry has developed a franchise that doesn't fail to deliver what his fans are accustomed to: some variation of a dysfunctional family comedy and the appearance of his most famous character Madea--a cranky grandmother played by Perry himself that manages to draw laughs, even when her inclusion sometimes is superfluous. --Jae-Ha Kim

Customer Reviews

Caught between a crock and a star chase
Short Attention Span Summary (SASS):

1. Angela Bassett stars as a single mother of 3 kids struggling to make ends meet in inner city Chicago
2. A death in the family takes them to Georgia, where they meet the Browns
3. A quick Rick Fox jumps into the crazy clan
4. Over-the-top characters, prolonged punch lines and unnecessary family secrets lead to a predictable ending


This movie has an established talent pool of a cast, and usually they can be depended on to put the "dis" in dysfunctional, but this time the jokes fail to flow smoothly, wasting the comedic talents of Jenifer Lewis, David Mann and Frankie Faison. Tyler Perry appears briefly as his most beloved character Madea, but even this feels like an afterthought in the context of the movie.

Angela Bassett is out of place for this particular role, but excellent actress that she is, her character signifies hope for single mothers everywhere who may be feeling overwhelmed by the pressures of work, home and family.

Some good performances make for a movie with a strong message, but unfortunately it's hard to see through all the noise and confusion.



Amanda Richards, July 20, 2008

Do I Have to Give This a Star?
Whoever you people are who say how great this movie is, you are out of your minds. You're either crazy or you've never seen a movie, ever. This was the worst movie that I've ever seen and I saw "Straight Out of Brooklyn".

Predictable? Every Tyler Perry movie is predictable, but somehow he at least made that work in "Why Did I Get Married?". This movie reminded me of something put together from outtakes of other movies.

Angela Bassett as a "young mother"? She's got to be almost fifty. Yes, she looks great, but she's not young in anybody's definition.

Madea belonged in this movie about as much as I did and she made about as much sense.

That "Nasty Ho" and the other "Ho's" wasn't funny.

AT ALL!

Rick Fox looks really strange, not the hottie that he used to be.

Why would anybody spend money to fix up a falling down wreck and ruin of a house for someone that he doesn't know is going to live in it?

Of course, the kid is a good basketball player and of course he's going to sell drugs and of course he gets shot. "Cooley High", "Boys in Da' Hood" and too many others to list have already done it better.

That we (Black Folks) continue to queue up to Tyler Perry movies and plays says something really sad about our development.

This movie was bad in so many ways that I can't possibly enumerate them all. I'm tired of trying.

I give this 2 thumbs down!
OMG, i cannot believe TP did this movie. The acting was bad but of course Angela Bassest did a wonderful job. Rick Fox was the worse love interest, what happened to him. His acting was the worse of the bunch. The stroy line did not flow togerher and was so not funny. He did this movie too soon after 'Why Did I Get Married' and that was a really good movie. This one wasn't doing it for me. But I can't wait for his next movie 'The family that Preys'. Now that is an amazing cast check out the trailer http://tylerperry.com/look.