Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail

Tyler Perry transitions another one of his hit plays to the big screen with this adaptation of +Madea Goes to Jail. The successful filmmaker stars once again as the mischief-prone older woman whose exploits this time lead her to jail, where she befriends and reforms a prostitute named Candy (The ...more

The idea of surviving prison definitely supplies one with street cred. Would Rambo be the same if he didn't end up breaking rocks in the prison yard? Would Jean Valjean from Les Miserables have garnered character-forming stripes had he not been inprisoned? Probably not. Tyler Perry has brought his most popular character, the notoriously cranky Madea (played by Perry), to the big house in Madea Goes to Jail. Like prisoners before her, Madea possesses a toughness that says "don't mess with me," ...more

If people didn't like seeing movies where African-American comedians dress up like feisty old ladies and beat some sense into their troubled friends and family, studios wouldn't keep making them. Fans of Tyler Perry's Madea franchise won't be disappointed with the 2009 installment Madea Goes to Jail, which finds the tough-talking matriarch in the slammer following yet another temper-fueled brush with the law. Always reactionary but still semi-justified, the latest addition to her rap sheet stems ...more