“Madea Goes to Jail” is a movie worth seeing, with extraordinary characters, plot, and casting. Tyler Perry portrays several character roles such as: Uncle Joe, Brian (Lawyer), and, of course, Madea, the matriarch, who is known for her notorious behavior.
The movie starts off by showing Madea and Uncle Joe fleeing the police on the freeways of Atlanta, Georgia, a room full of attorneys looking at the high-speed chase on a television. Cora (Tamela Mann) and Brown (David Mann), who always plays an exceptional role, are also good at what they do. With the police squad, helicopters, and Madea, who resists and wrestles with the officers when they attempt to arrest her, I thought Madea would have a shoot out with the officers. Instead, she puts up a fight with officers.
Madea lands herself in court while characters Candie (Keshia Knight Pullium), who plays a prostitute that struts her stuff on the streets of Atlanta, and Joshua (Derek Luke), Candie’s attorney, listen to the verdict by Judge Mabelean. After Candie’s verdict, she is released and told by Judge Mabelean, that if she sees her again she will do some time in jail.
Shortly after, Madea walks into the court room with her attorney Brian (Tyler Perry) who represents her case. Judge Mabelean immediately tells Madea she is going to jail because she is tired of seeing her in court and her trouble with the law. Madea talks trash as usual and Judge Mabelean finds out by Brian that the officers forgot to read Madea her rights and therefore orders Madea to attend anger management counseling and suspends her driver’s license.
Madea returns home and finds out that Joe is throwing a going away party for Madea’s incarceration. Madea enters the house full of partygoers who are drinking, dancing and doing drugs. Cora and Brown tell Madea to calm down and that everything is going to be all right. Madea goes upstairs and Joe yells to everyone she’s got a gun and to run for your lives. I just knew she would catch someone in the leg or foot but Madea shoots a machine gun in the house and everyone flees yelling and screaming.
Candie continues to prostitute with her friend Donna, who tells her about the minister Ellen (Viola Davis) who tells them to be safe and that she is there if they need her. When Candie met the gangster who attacked her and threw her into the car, I thought for a minute he would kill her.
Candie meets Joshua at a restaurant and they get into a heavy discussion about a time when they were in high school. Joshua tries to convince Candie to stop prostituting. She cries and tells Joshua she would never have gotten like that if he would’ve never left her in the room with his friends who took turns and raped her.
Linda, who is Joshua’s girlfriend, wakes up and finds Candie sleeping on her couch with her robe on. Linda becomes angry and tells Joshua she has to leave. Joshua tells Linda she needs help and he’s going to help her regardless. Linda gets upset and storms out of the house. Joshua wakes up Candie and they talk about how to help her with getting a job and making her life better with counseling.
Cora takes Madea to Anger Management when they get into an accident with another driver who cuts in front of their car. Madea tells Cora to get the fool who tried to run them off of the road. Cora asks Madea, what-would-Jesus-do (WWJD) which is engraved in her arm bracelet. Madea says to Cora, I don’t know what Jesus would do but you better get that fool. Madea pushes on the gas pedal and runs the guy off of the road. When Madea hit the pedal and pulled up behind the car I thought she would do a drive-by like she mentions a lot of times in her movies and plays.
Madea goes to Kmart and tries to pull into the handicapped parking spot when a lady in a white car swerves over into the parking space Madea was trying to get. The lady gets out of her car and walks into the store while Madea tells her politely that she was about to park there first and that she needs to move her car. After the lady walked into the store, Madea looked as if she was going to drive her car through the store’s window behind the lady, but instead Madea picks up the car with a crane and flips the car over. The lady watches her car being flipped over and gets on the phone and calls her husband, who is an officer, to arrest Madea. This was the best part of the movie. No one would’ve ever thought in their right mind an old lady would flip over someone’s car in public.
Later, the officers and helicopters arrest Madea in the front yard of her house. She ends up in jail where she is confronted by a bully. Madea gets into an altercation with the bully and throws her in a laundry basket while Candie covers her up from a female guard who enters the laundry room. When the guard comes into the laundry room I thought Madea would then try to escape out of prison, but instead she confessed that everything is all right.
I would recommend everyone and their families to go to the theaters when Madea is showing. She and Uncle Joe are hilarious and the stories behind the movie will educate, strengthen, and motivate you to always do what’s right so you won’t end up in JAIL, like Madea.
