YMMV / Madea's Family Reunion

• Anvilicious: The scene at the reunion with Myrtle preaching to the young people.
• Catharsis Factor: Whether or not you feel the hot grits were too much, it is very satisfying to see Carlos get what was coming to him after everything he did to that poor girl.
• Critical Dissonance: Currently has a low critic score of 28% on Rotten Tomatoes vs an audience score of 93%.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Some fans who hate the movie just came to see Madea herself.
• Moral Event Horizon: Victoria had many moments of cruelty throughout the film, but in the present-day she crosses it when she orders her "favorite" daughter Lisa to stay with Carlos even after she tells her that he beats her, simply telling her to "do what the man says" and focus on making him happy to avoid being beaten. As far as her past history, she crossed it when she allows Vanessa's stepfather to rape her so that he wouldn't abandon the family. When confronted about this, she refuses to apologize and insists she "did what she had to do" in order to "save" the family. There was also a moment earlier on where Lisa asks her when she would spend time with her two grandchildren through Vanessa, only for her to blithely answer with "I don't want to see those little bastards."
• Narm: Vanessa's crying scenes are somewhat hard to take seriously, due to her voice oddly deepening whenever she cries.
• Special Effects Failure: It is abundantly clear she throws cold grits on Blair Underwood. The issue isn't that they did it for safety; the issue is they could have just added a little bit of steam or heat effect in post to sell the scene. Instead, anyone who has eaten hot grits before can instantly tell those grits are ice cold.
• The Woobie: Vanessa and Lisa. They're both under their mother's thumb, with the latter being pushed into an abusive marriage with Carlos because her trust fund is almost gone and Victoria simply wants more money, while the former has always been The Unfavorite, since her father left them and, to rub more salt in the wound, to keep Lisa's father from leaving them, Victoria allowed him to rape her and is completely unapologetic about it.

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