Madea's Family Reunion

No one could call this great art, but Tyler Perry's play is wacky, lively, and fun. There are musical numbers mixed in and they pop up unexpectedly, with the actors doing some very fine singing. Perry himself is in drag in the lead role as Madea, an unpredictable, acerbic, big black woman who goes around (sometimes armed with a pistol) zinging and goosing (metaphorically that is) the other characters, who are mostly pretty standard African American types. We have the churchy folks, the virile young bucks, a wild young lady, a conservative young lady, and so on. Apparently there has been a whole series of these Madea flicks and they are very popular with African American audiences, but I bet they are mostly more of the same. To add to the confusion, there are 2 versions of this out there - I think one is a filmed version of the original stage play (which is what I saw) and the other is made for the movies.