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Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

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  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  There is something both satisfying and frustrating about Madea Goes to Jail. Mr. Perry dutifully gives his audience what it wants, but you can't help feeling that he might also have more to offer: more coherent narratives, smoother direction, better movies.

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  Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman

  It's a tale soggy with the kind of race/class lessons that Madea, the director-star's battle-ax alter ego, doles out far more handily (and entertainingly) in a single church-lady-from-hell zinger.

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  VarietyJoe Leydon

  Wildly uneven effort, which is notably more strained and slapdash than such earlier efforts as "Madea's Family Reunion" and "Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns."

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  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  For all its staleness, the melodramatic main story does contain enough good acting and resonant scenes.

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