It's alright if you're looking for something mindless to watch. If Madea and Bam could be a bigger focus, that's be great. If Tyler Perry didn't appear as himself, that'd be great. If they could get some decent actors, that'd be great.

So as far as sequels go, this is a very typical one. I went to see Boo 2 because though Tyler Perry movies are not really my thing, I actually enjoined the first Boo, so I took the chance that I would enjoy the second one.

I totally did, too. It's not as good as the original. As much as I found the original funny, it also had an attempt to show family values in it that was not lost on me. This time around their attempt (If there was one cause I did not see it) was literally taken out to make more room for laughs. In a lot of ways it made the film like the second episode of one of Perry's shows (Which I like more than his movies), as it seems nobody learned the lesson from the first Madea Halloween.

Case in point, like the original, Boo 2 is about Joe trying to discipline his entitled daughter, Tiffany. Once again she defies her overbearing father's wishes in order to go to a party at midnight in the woods at a camp where a bunch of people got murdered. Now I understand the natural urge for a teenager not to want to listen to her dad, but when your aunt is someone like Madea, you would think you would think twice about this woman coming to track you down, especially after what happen in the last movie.

Like the last film, Boo 2 focuses on Madea and her friends running into terror and danger while trying to get to Tiffany. The film likes to Parody current themes in horror like with influences of Korean horror and it also pokes a nod to old school Horror with the film taking place at a camp and the underage teens being hunted by a man with a mask and a chainsaw.

Overall, I much prefer the more light hearted Tyler Perry movies. Sometimes his stuff can be too over dramatic for me, but I seem to like it when he goes for straight up Sitcom style on us and that's Boo 2!

It's crazy and filled with laughs and no matter where it fails compare to the first one, we are there to laugh and that's what makes this sequel enjoyable.

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The only reason I watched this movie was because I thought it set the record for longest Midnight Screenings by Brad Jones. Turns out I was wrong and it was actually the original that set the record. This Midnight Screenings was still over an hour long. To pour salt on my wound, I ate out there at the theater even though I already had! Dang, that food's expensive. I'm digressing, so let's get back to this movie.

I had hard horror stories about the Tyler Perry movies. There just seemed to be an endless amount of them and I guess I'm glad I saw at least one of these dumb things. My first impression of Tyler Perry in a film was actually "Gone Baby Gone". What do you know, he was a good actor in that movie! This movie features him taking on the roles of various family members in drag reminded me of Eddie Murphy only not funny. You know, like Eddie Murphy now.

Anyway, the film centers around his daughter going to a midnight Halloween party and seemingly confronted by supernatural creatures. The end reveals it was just a prank by her father. There's one scene where Madea puts her hand through the Grim Reaper's face and touches its real scythe. If this was all a prank, how did that happen? It was nothing but these same people making these dumb jokes over and over. It just seemed to go on forever with how pointless and unfunny everything was. *