In this follow-up to the 2016 original, writer-director
Tyler Perry's long-running muumuu-draped moral force — played by Perry himself
in drag, of course — sets out to rescue her grand-niece (Diamond White) from a
fraternity party held at a campground where several people had been murdered
some years before. The result is very much along the lines of a live-action
Scooby-Doo cartoon with the manic matriarch's familiar companions (including
Cassi Davis and Patrice Lovely) taking the place of animated sleuthing teens.
Perry's Madea films of late have operated not on strongly limned original ideas
but on the fumes of public goodwill at the memory of the character's earlier
outings. In those, she at least had some moral lesson to convey about the power
of family ties and the importance of children obeying their elders. Here, her
primary task is to shriek and toss off the occasional line about urinary
incontinence.
Watch out for: A brief
scene of marijuana use, fleeting crude language, two instances of the N-word.
Rated: A-III, adults; MPAA:
PG-13
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