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With nothing to lose Brenda and her three children travel from Chicago to small-town Georgia to meet a previously unknown side of the family. NOTHING can prepare them for the fun-loving crass Brown clan. Angela Basset and Rick Fox star in this romantic comedy about the power of love and family - from Tyler Perry.System Requirements:Running Time: 101 minutesFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: COMEDY/FAMILY GATHERINGS Rating: PG-13 UPC: 031398236139 Manufacturer No: 23613

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3903 in DVD
• Brand: LION’S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
• Released on: 2008-07-01
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 101 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

Customer Reviews

Tyler Perry Please Stop!!!!
Once again Tyler Perry comes out with another stereotypical black movie! I felt sorry for Angela Bassett at this point in her career she should get offered better roles. I’m sorry but Tyler Perry movies are not funny. His plays are legendary but he has no idea how to make a decent movie. Who in there right mind would cast Angela Bassett and Rick Foxx as a couple? Movies are very different from plays. Many things that go over great in front of a live audience would never work in film. He tries too hard sometimes. His movies don’t feel like comidies and they never quite stack up to any of his plays. In the 90’s it felt like for the first time blacks were beginning to make quality movies for us all. Tyler Perry is definately not setting us back but he isn’t raising the bar much either.

Another wonderful positive film by Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry has always been one of my fav directors/story tellers. His movies always have a positive message and often are very humorous.

This story starts out with Brenda ( Angela Bassett ), a single mom struggling to make ends meet and raise her 3 kids. None of the 3 kids fathers are in the picture ( even though she has tried to get child support during recent hard times from her son’s father ). While riding the bus to work, Brenda reads a letter she receives, telling her that her father has passed away. Included in the letter was bus tickets to Georgia for her father’s funeral–a father she didn’t have any contact with throughout her childhood.

When Brenda gets to work, she finds that her company has been sold to Mexico and she is currently without a job. Bills are tight and her electricity gets turned off. Her teenage son is a wonderful young man and a great basketball player. His coach asks a scout to come to one of his games to scope him out and see his potential, which he ready does. The scout eventually goes to Brenda’s apartment, thinking she is her son’s sister ( she’s Angela Bassett and is gorgeous ya know ) rather than his mom. Brenda tells him she doesn’t have time for his nonsence–men have ALWAYS disappointed her in the past and her trust level is real low.

After Brenda looses her job, she decides to go to Georgia and visit/meet her previously unknown family. There she meets a group of excentric/lovable people that welcome her with open arms. Also there, Harry ( Rick Fox ) the scout who was checking out her son’s basketball potential. He’s a friend of the family and is attracted to Brenda on sight and will do whatever he can to help her.

As with all Tyler Perry movies, things get worked out in the end–one of the things I LOVE about his movies. The road to the end may be muddled and confusing, but if you follow the Lord’s way, all things work out. Yes, Tyler mentions God and prayer in every movie I have seen of his. He seems like a man of faith and his movies reflect his love of the Lord.

The only, “bad” things I can think of with this movie are the Leroy Brown character ( David Mann ) and her half sister Vera ( Jenifer Lewis ). They were a little too over-the-top, and their voices got on my nerves a bit. Plus, there was only a wee part for my fav Tyler Perry character-Madea–and she was doing an, “O.J.” and being chased by a bunch of police cars. All in all, this was a very enjoyable movie with a GREAT moral and positive/happy ending.

tyler perry’s worst movie so far
I love “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and “Why did I get Married” but this movie lacks in all the aspects of film making. The characters are awful except for Rick Fox’s performance and the Mom’s son ( unknown). It’s not funny at all. It has no heart like his other movies. It’s just bad. There’s also the annoying Lee Roy Brown and Hispanic lady characters. Bottom line, you are wasting you’re money if you buy or even rent this movie.