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[Film] General Vibe [Diary of a Mad Black Woman] The best-acted of the three, Diary of a Mad Black Woman plays like a soap opera with frequent comic interludes, but actors Kimberly Elise and Steve Harris take advantage of the opportunity to show their characters evolve. [Madea's Family Reunion] The most sleekly photographed of the three, it also features the most jarring shifts in tone, as if alternating between a slick buppie TV drama, a modern-day Victorian melodrama and a comedy along the lines of Eddie Murphy’s The Klumps. [Madea Goes to Jail] 
The most overtly funny of the three, this stage play filmed at the Fox Theatre in 2005 feels like a musical version of a 1970s sitcom such as “Good Times.” Perry and his cast’s ease and interaction with the audience conveys Perry’s deep-rooted popularity on the “chitlin’ circuit” of African-American stage plays.
A Tyler Perry primer | Feature | Creative Loafing Atlanta
Madea Goes to Jail