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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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:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Excellent as always:
Tyler Perry always delivers fun entertainment while enforcing family values. We laughed and laughed with this movie and even bought copies for our friends.
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... more info
Meet the Browns!!!!:
I enjoyed Meet The Browns. While it was not as exciting as Diary of a Mad Black Woman, it still touched and moved me in the same manner. You will laugh and cry throughout the movie, which happens to be Tyler's m.o. Keep up the good work TP!!!
A solid film. Tyler Perry comes into his craft as a filmmaker.:
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is actually a loose adaptation of his stage play "What's Done in the Dark. The movie makes some deviations from the stage play but those deviations capture the spirit and the heart of the stage play it's based on. Brenda is a single Mom in Chicago struggling to take care of her three kids. She's sent tickets to come to her father's funeral in Georgia; a man she's never known. She's on her way to work with her friend when she finds out the factory has been sold and moved to... more info
