Boo 2: A Madea Halloween
Directed by Tyler Perry
Written by Tyler Perry
Starring Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, Patrice Lovely, Tito Ortiz
Release Date October 20th, 2017
What is there to be said about Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween? You already know it’s not any good. We all know that Tyler Perry doesn’t give a damn about the quality of his work. It’s completely critic-proof. I am epically wasting my time writing a review of this, or really any of Perry’s work. And yet, I am somehow here to write a review of Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween. It really makes me begin to question my profession. Not completely, lord knows I wouldn’t want to get a real job.
Here is where I will make a vain attempt to describe a plot, of which there is little. Brian (Perry, in one of his three roles) continues to struggle as a parent to his daughter, Tiffany (Diamond White). Yes, despite Brian’s parenting success being the only arc of the first film, he still sucks as a parent and has to learn or teach(?) a new lesson to his horror of a daughter who, frankly, seems like a lost cause. Given her decision making, based on these two movies, it’s a wonder she’s still alive, let alone ready to donate her virginity to a doofus frat-guy.
It's a testament to Perry’s opinion of women that they range from whores to idiots to shrews. Whereas early in his career Perry seemed to have a modicum of respect for his female characters, that’s long gone. I would call Perry a misogynist, but I can’t be sure that the hateful way in which he portrays women in his two Halloween features is genuine disdain for women or his overall incompetence as a director and storyteller.
In case you think I am just lobbing P.C bombs, let’s profile Perry’s female characters in Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, shall we? First there is Tiffany, who is portrayed as a danger to herself and others after she is given a car by her mother despite having done little to warrant such a gift. She only gets the car because Perry portrays the mother as the kind of awful parent who buys her daughter’s affections with gifts and makes out with other men in front her ex-husband– in other words, she’s a castrating shrew.
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