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List Price: $22.98 | | Label: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 47324
Released: July 1, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is a sitcom taken to the next level. Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral, she's not sure how to feel: Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things up. (And, as a friend suggests, there's always the chance her father left her a little money.) While the film's central character grew up with incredible hardships (a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a father who didn't stick around), writer-director-actor Perry takes every opportunity to inject a little humor into the vignettes. It is not her fault that she is too gorgeous and regal to be believable in the role, but Bassett--a superb dramatic actress--is sorely miscast here in a role where her subtleties are lost in all the fuss. Meet the Browns isn't Perry's best piece of work, but the fast-paced action and raucous dialogue provide enough fun to make the film worthwhile. With his name prefacing each movie, Perry has developed a franchise that doesn't fail to deliver what his fans are accustomed to: some variation of a dysfunctional family comedy and the appearance of his most famous character Madea--a cranky grandmother played by Perry himself that manages to draw laughs, even when her inclusion sometimes is superfluous. --Jae-Ha Kim
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Description of Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy):
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is a sitcom taken to the nth level. Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral, she's not sure how to feel: Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things up. (And, as a friend suggests, there's always the chance her father left her a little money.) While the film's central character grew up with incredible hardships (a prostitute for a mother and a pimp for a father who didn't stick around), writer-director-actor Perry takes every opportunity to inject a little humor into the vignettes. It is not her fault that she is too gorgeous and regal to be believable in the role, but Bassett--a superb dramatic actress--is sorely miscast here in a role where her subtleties are lost in all the fuss. Meet the Browns isn't Perry's best piece of work, but the fast-paced action and raucous dialogue provide enough fun to make the film worthwhile. With his name prefacing each movie, Perry has developed a franchise that doesn't fail to deliver what his fans are accustomed to: some variation of a dysfunctional family comedy and the appearance of his most famous character Madea--a cranky grandmother played by Perry himself that manages to draw laughs, even when her inclusion sometimes is superfluous. --Jae-Ha Kim
Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy) Reviews:
Meet the Browns 
2009-11-17 - The Browns are unbeatable for laughs and a good story that is educational and entertaining.
dissapointed 
2009-11-01 - My review is not about the video but about the product/presentation that was sent to me. I did not get to see my order until today, NOV 1, 2009. I have been very busy since I bought them. I was very dissapointed and I felt robbed when I opened this particular one Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, because this DVD looks like a booth leg DVD, althou some boot leg DVD has label and design this one had nothing. I did not know which side was the play side because both sides looked alike, it looked like a blank DVD. I should have been told that I was going to get an inferior booth leg product, I would'nt have bought any.
This is bad and poor quality control by Amazon.com, I'm concerned. How can I order anything else knowing that it can be a bad product. I checked your return policy and its too late to return this DVD but this is not what I ordered, this product is an insult and there should be an exception. In fact Amazon.com should be interested in seeing the product I received to be able to correct what happened.
Carver
Meet the Browns
2009-10-23 - This is a goood movie that I really enjoyed it. It is a good story with a happy ending.
Terriffic Movie
2009-10-17 - This is a very good movie. Tyler Perry does excellent movies. i recomend this movie to everyone. and to every tyler perry fans
Meet the Browns?We've met them Over and Over again 
2009-10-08 - First of all,I think Tyler Perry is a wonderfull writer,director,and a great Man who deserves his success after what he's been through .I've seen just about all of his films,and Loved Madia's family reunion.
"Meet the Browns" is not his best work,and its the same type of movie I've seen from him over and over again,and I agree with the other reviewers,Angela Bassett as a YOUNG unwed Mother with 3 kids?one of them under5Years of age ?SHE'S 51!!!,and lets face it,this actress OVER ACTS in every movie she's in.Less is More.
I'd like to know what this film is.A screw ball Comedy?A serious drama?Then all of a sudden Madia turns up in a police case for a brief cameo,
Then of course you have the wedding like all the other endings of Perry's movies when the girl finally realizes the man of her dreams is not a bad guy.
Meet the Browns? I've met them over and over again.
