Shrek Up On It

Yes, I saw Madea's Niggerish Reunion this weekend.

My analysis is that Tyler Perry is too obsessed with the themes of the Color Purple and too often tries to insert them into his Madea works, but fails to do so gracefully. When people come to see Madea's Family Reunion they will expect a Madea-driven comedy about the dramas surrounding a family reunion. However, fans will be extremely disappointed to realize that Madea is marginalized for the faux-drama of three light-skinned beauties and the boring Boris Kodjoe.

Tyler Perry let his hormones (when casting the men) and superficialities (when casting the women) get the best of him when casting "hunks" and petite cuties in roles that didn't suit them.

The borrowed themes of abuse and rape are too glossed over and underdeveloped to deserve anything other than an eye roll. Instead of continually featuring some poor beauty who gets abused and then ultimately stands up for herself with Madea's "help", he could feature a story on the gay community he forsook for Jim Crowe Christianity all those years ago.

Despite the boring and trite drama Perry attempted to deliver, the Madea scenes were of course hilarious. While sometimes TOO over the top, Madea's colloquialisms and antics never cease to be funny. Tyler Perry is a hilarious woman! As a man, he bores me to tears, but I love him as an old ass woman.

All in all, the movie is imbalanced. Too much drama with boring characters, not enough Madea. Definitely not enough family reunion (which was totally ridiculous when it gets to the part with Maya & Cicely- WTF was that speech? Maya & Cicely are desperate!). I am proud of Tyler Perry for writing, directing, producing and starring in these movies as a young (gay) black man, but at the same time I cannot dismiss his lackluster attempts at good drama.

Score: $$$ [three out of five]

Recommendation: Cop the bootleg or watch it on HBO.

My New Job

I'm ready to go to bed, so I will tell some horror stories later, but basically my new job is to call my school's alumni and ask them to donate to the school. I work four hours three days a week, but I can go in on other days if I want to make extra dinero.

New Opportunity

I might try this Disney internship that's been presented to me. Basically what you do is work at Disney World for a semester and at the same time go to school. You can take classes and work in areas that pertain to your major. I have an interview tomorrow (Monday) at 7 p.m. (I arranged it so I could still see Girlfriends and Half & Half). If they like me from there, I have an audition on April 1st to enter the competitive entertainment department (acting in the Disney World plays, acting as Disney characters, ish like that). Sounds like fun and I'm ready to get out of Texas ASAP!

I'm tired as hell so I'm going to sleep early (1 a.m.) for once with my nocturnal ass. Peace.