Meet the Browns - 4 Tubs

I've got some pictures I'm going to post on the website soon. However, I will admit that it isn't as bad as I had thought. Perhaps my writing on Tyler Perry's website and asking his fans to be more responsible had some impact after all. Maybe the word is getting out. Maybe you're passing this site on to your friends and they are conducting themselves accordingly.

You've got to love Tyler Perry, even if his movies all focus around the same themes. Meet the Browns is the first big screen introduction of David and Tamela Mann, who played the same roles in the stage play Meet the Browns. David Mann is simply funny. Tyler played up the movie by having "Mr. Brown" appear on recent episodes of House of Payne. And Tyler does a cameo in Meet the Browns to set up his new movie, Madea Goes To Jail, due out later this year.

Meet the Browns had no competition last week, except for Horton Hears a Who. This week it will go up against 21, but should still pull a strong second, if not retain it's first place at the box office. Meet the Browns would have gathered more market share if it hadn't opened on Good Friday when people were traveling out of town. It's also Spring Break season, so people who might have normally gone to the movies are out of town. It might also have done better if there were other movies worth the $9-12 bucks it costs to get in. Whenever people see a lot of cars in the theater parking lot, they seemed compelled to stop and come watch a movie themselves.

Here's my take on Meet the Browns: It's funny, touching, and has . Many of us can identify with the single mom who has no money for groceries, has her electricity turned off and loses her job in the same week. She's got three kids, thankfully good ones, to raise. Just when she doesn't know where else to turn, she learns that her biological father has passed away and she's inherited his rental property - a dump; but her family and a suitor come to the rescue and turn it into a beautiful home just because she's family. Family is important to Tyler Perry, as it should be to us all. Who knows? With all the baby boomers about to retire and there already a shortage of quality long term care facilities, we may see parents moving in with their kids rather than the other way around.

Go see the movie, laugh, wipe your tears, and take your trash when you leave. The ushers, and Tyler Perry thank you for your business.