Tyler Perry has the unique ability to continue to outdo himself. Not in a good way, of course. He continues to make worse films for less money that make more at the box office. Now, here is a sequel to one of the most profitable Madea films he’s ever made. And boy, is it hellish.
The film’s plot is even more loose and nonsensical than the first films. The main ‘conflict’ is that Brian’s (Tyler Perry) daughter lies to him about going to a party at a haunted lake/campsite, where 16 people were murdered in years past.
Tyler Perry clearly doesn’t care about any sort of internal logic with his films anymore, as its never addressed how the kids got there, why the campsite isn’t closed off or has a fence around it. There’s also zero sense of tension or logic to the film’s scares.
Instead of just letting the characters encounter a collection of weird or creepy happenings, Perry insists on constructing a lazy and boring moral narrative around the film and give logical reasons to the happenings. Unfortunatly, none of it makes any sense.
There are one or two moments of chuckles within the film, and they all boil down to slapstick, visual comedy involving Madea. However, two moments of genuine humor in a film with a running time of 100-plus minutes is unacceptable.
“Boo 2” isn’t even content with being a bad but competently made film. There are poorly edited sequences everywhere. Characters reference lines others have said before they even say them, and some lines are poorly dubbed over to cut out clearly harsh curse words.
Despite these edits, Perry still stuffs in uncomfortable sex jokes and weed references, leading audiences to wonder why he settled for a PG-13 and allowed for the poorly-edited line dubs.
Though not all of the humor is sexual in nature, the other jokes require ridiculously low effort. There is a five-minute long sequence of a joke about Madea telling another character to watch his mouth only to have him complain he can't - because he can’t see his own mouth. That's supposed to be a joke?
Perry wants to have it both ways. He wants to make a raunchy comedy that can appeal to the youth, while also making sure there is enough of a moral to satisfy the family audience. His Frankenstein’s monster of a film ends up suffering from poor production, terrible writing, tonal schizophrenia and an overall lack of effort.
No, there’s no clever line or pun to end this review. The movie doesn’t deserve effort. 0.5/5
