![]() ![]() George’s bratty, argumentative daughter is exactly the kind of character that Madea would have traditionally smacked around and berated until she learned to respect her elders. While George tries to unravel his boss’ chicanery, Madea and Joe dispense life lessons to George’s young second wife Kate (Denise Richards) and their children (Danielle Campbell and Devan Leos). If you thought the business talk in Perry’s “Good Deeds” was maddeningly vague, just wait until Brian and George push a bunch of papers back and forth and exchange gibberish about Swiss bank accounts and wire transfers. To testify against his former employers and against the mob, he and his family have to go into hiding, so lawyer Brian (Perry) - who’s either a district attorney or a federal one (the movie’s never quite clear) - brings the Needlemans to Atlanta to camp out with Brian’s aged father Joe (Perry) and aunt Madea (Perry). Levy stars as George Needleman, a nebbishy accountant who discovers that he’s been the patsy for a corporation that’s been running a Ponzi scheme and laundering money for organized crime. Worst of all, she’s still the best thing this film has to offer. But here she’s been rendered so inert that she goes from outrageous to, by the end of the movie’s seemingly interminable running time, fairly annoying and repetitive. The Atlanta-based auteur has gone on record saying that because Madea has become so popular with young viewers that he has toned her down - no more weed-smoking or gun-toting. ![]() It wastes the talents of not just Eugene Levy and Doris Roberts but of Perry himself, whose cross-dressing creation Madea has often been the saving comedic grace of Perry’s films. ![]()
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