That was an excellent one.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The fact that this movie has 3.8 out of ten stars is laughable. That would indicate that many people gave this 1 star meaning it is the worst they have ever seen. I mean Slasher films with 9 sequels have higher ratings than this! I guess people hate moralistic stories. People say that it is too "Preachy?" This wasn't Tyler Perry's first movie and anyone who watched it knew what they were getting into. I think people purposely watch movies they KNOW they will hate in order to bash them. Very good movie, it gets your emotions going and has a great message. Madea is as hilarious as ever. Worth the watch. Maybe not the greatest movie you will ever see, but that can be said of a lot of movies.

Madea (Tyler Perry) catches a sixteen year old named Jennifer, and her two younger brothers trying to steal from her home. She gives them something to eat, but threatens to call the cops on them if they don't come up with some money to pay for the damages. The woman that takes care of the kids has seemingly disappeared, so Madea takes them over to their estranged Aunt April (Henson). April is a selfish drunk who works as a singer at a night club, her boyfriend provides for her, and she wants nothing to do with the kids. An enigmatic Columbian named Sandino (Adam Rodriguez) moves into her home, and begins to change April's ways for the betterEvery Tyler Perry movie seems to have a low rating. Some deserve it, but not very many. Do you guys even watch some of his movies? They are nowhere near bad enough to be in the 3.5 range, like you guys have voted this one. I often wonder if voters simply vote low, because they hate Tyler Perry. This is a very good movie. It's a really good story about redemption. I've always felt Tyler Perry's heart has been arguably as big as Mount Everest. He just doesn't know when to stop with the melodramatics at times, and it becomes overkill. He creates a dandy of a film with this one, where everything is just right. The storyline itself is genuine and realistic. Kids at Jennifer's age are often left to fend for themselves, without much help. I really enjoyed watching Taraji P. Henson's character evolve from nothingness to a winning character change in the second half. If you manage to stick with her grumpy character, you'll be rewarded by a sensational show from Henson. Tyler Perry is amusing as Madea, as per usual. I've never really gotten into his Joe persona, but Madea is always fun. If I have any complaints, I wish that he would not belt on kids in his movies. It's not very funny, and I'm quite against it. I don't see the humor in it. Adam Rodriguez annoyed me at first with his corny style, but as the film went along, he won me over. I give all the credit to Rodriguez for that. I do wish Perry gave us more background on him. He felt like a drifter who came from out of nowhere, but Rodriguez did well. Brian White plays a scumbag extremely well. He plays the abusive boyfriend, and you'll hate him. Hope Olaide Wilson is good as the teen. I felt Perry did a really good job at building up her indifferent character, before having her open up as the film goes along. Mary J. Blige plays a bartender, and is adequate. Her singing is out of this world, obviouslyI can't comprehend why people hate this movie. It's got an excellent story, it's moving, it's heartfelt, well acted, and it has an excellent message behind it. What can you possibly dislike about all that? Perry is trying to tell you that it's okay to open up to other people, and ask for help. If you live a selfish life, you should strive to be better. You can't love others, if you don't love yourself first. The human spirit is a powerful thing. Life can wear us down, but we can always overcome it. It's a really thought provoking film. If you dislike Tyler Perry, that's fine. But don't go and purposely rate his movies low, just because you don't like him. Watch the movie, and give your honest opinion about it. This might be Perry's best film. If it isn't, it's definitely in his top three. I don't get watery eyes very often from anything, but this movie seriously moved me to the point of tears. Perry doesn't always nail what he's trying to get across, but he aces it here. I'm not a professional critic. I consider myself to be an average reviewer, but one thing i'm always proud of is my open mind. And this is a damn good film. Well done, Tyler. Well done!8/10

Nice movie, nice feelings, honestly movie. The only reason I give 10 stars is because there is an injustice with all these reviewers that gave a low score for the movie. This is not fair. I would give 7 stars for a movie of this type, if there wasn't the unfair game of some people with their low scores. This (under 3) score just can't be true. These American neighbourhood type movies are my favorites and most of times they are not good. But If I think of all movies of this type that I have seen till today, I can surely say that this is a human movie, with feelings as I said, with some everyday human situations and problems that many people have, and all these are shown from this movie with both a drama and comedy way, but with respect to anyone who has problems in this life. The actors played very nice and for a movie of this type, they do their best. For sure they are good actors too, but I think they feeled their roles and thats why they played nice. I hope you all see this movie. But first "See yourselves in the mirror" as Madea says to the girl. See yourselves, think who you are think of peoples around you and their problems and then give your score here. It will be surely a bigger score then. Thank you that you read my review and hope not to offend anyone. I hope the best to Mr Tyler Perry. I wish I could make a movie like this or participate in the creation of a movie like this, but I live in Greece where cinema is very difficult for a simple young film director, with a state that never cares for young people with dreams. So, I see movies like this in order to become happier in my life...I suggest you to do the same...

OK first of all, Tyler Perry, I love your plays. A lot. More than I probably should but you have to stop naming your movies after your plays when they have nothing to do with the former aside from a character or two. In this case the only things the stage play and the movie have in common are a handy man, the title, and Madea. But Madea is in almost everything so that doesn't count. Therefore this cannot be considered an adaptation. There are a few things one needs in order to create his or her own Tyler Perry movie:* 1 messed up drunk/druggie woman/mom* 1 self-centered woman* 1 wise old woman* 1 smart mouth kid* Madea* A good looking smart/helpful/god fearing male* A good looking drunk/abusive male* DramaNow these movies, like all Perry's movies, have all or most of these. The story follows April (Taraji P. Henson) an alcoholic (who doubles as our drunk and self-centered woman) night club dancer who must take in her sister's kids (the oldest being the smart mouth kid.) An old church goer (who plays our wise old woman) begs April to keep the children since their caregiver, April's mom, is missing (more on that later.) At the same time April is sleeping with married man Randy (our good looking abusive, racist, pedophile male) and is asked by the neighborhood pastor to take in a Spanish boarder (our good looking nice guy.) Now how does Madea come into this? That's a good question. Why the hell was Madea in this movie? For familiarity and a few laughs that's why. Without her this movie would have zero laughs and leave its viewers in a constant state of sadness.The 3 kids (April's niece and 2 nephews) break into Madea's house in the middle of the night. Do they go for the DVD player, no? Do they go for the jewels, no? Do they go for Madea's purse, no? Instead, they steal Madea's VCR. Her VCR. As far I know, this movie takes place in 2009. If I was a 15 year old girl who needed to sell things for my brother's meds, the VCR would be the last thing I'd go after.So after Madea catches the kids in her house, she takes them to their Aunt and to pay off their debt they must help Madea around her house. April asks them where the grandmother is and the kid's reply that she left for work 4 days ago and never came home. Now, the grandmother is missing. The nice old lady from the church is worried and asks if anyone has seen her and no one has seen her for a week. You know why, because the grandmother died on a bus a week earlier, was taken to a morgue and couldn't be identified and wasn't claimed so she was cremated. Is it even legal to cremate someone after just a week? And no matter how old, I can't imagine this little old lady getting on the bus and going to work with no sort of ID on her. Even my senile old great-grandmother, who we found out after she died that she hadn't opened or let alone cleaned her fridge in 10 years, had an expired driver's license from the 70's stuffed into her old lady bag.So of course the married boyfriend tries to rape the young girl because someone always has to get raped (there's some of your drama) and the Spanish live-in handy man comes to the rescue. He leaves, April fixes her life and everyone lives happily ever after.There are 2 reasons why this movie is on the bottom 100 on IMDb. 1) Because much of the IMDb population sees Tyler Perry's name and automatically rate it a 1. This is why IMDb's rating often doesn't count. If people see that Paris Hilton or Miley Cyrus is in a movie they are going to rate it a one because they probably thing it is "teh sux." 2) Tyler Perry created another movie using the same plot assuming my 46 year old mother would go and start screaming her "Oh lord honey!" and her "No she didn't! I know she didn't just do that!" But somewhere people caught on and realized that Perry is spiting the same drivel over and over. This movie had a horrible story, horrible acting (aside form Ms. Henson) and unnecessary placement of Madea.Despite having a 3.6 on IMDb, the Family That Preys is my favorite Perry movie. It had some top notch actors (such as Kathey Bates and Alfre Woodard) and it has a story that was mostly different from the rest of his movies. Tyler Perry if you continue to think that black folk are going to just watch anything you write you're gonna end up broke in no time.ThatWasJunk.blogspot.com