It’s the fourth volume of Meet the Browns and that means we’re officially beating our head against the wall in describing the insipid and humorless style of the show. There are said to be entities immune to critical backlash, and Tyler Perry’s projects have fit that category quite well in the past. And though many of those productions have earned the low marks they received, none were ever so deserving as Meet the Browns, a comedy series so broad and poorly written that it doesn’t concern itself with jokes but rather illiterate characters and abysmal retellings of every sitcom plot anyone’s ever done. Were Meet the Browns sending up these sitcoms tropes and parodying them as a form of cultural satire, then that’d be one thing, but this isn’t that. This is the lowest point in the career of a filmmaker who makes Chuck Lorre look like a genius.
This time around (as like always), Will (Lamman Rucker) and Sasha (Denise Boutte) must provide the voices of reason in Leroy Brown’s (David Mann) nursing home where the inmate runs the asylum. Leroy’s ignorance on just about every subject, including those that would have easily gotten him killed long before this point, leads everyone to valuable lessons in humility and love. To get there, they’ll get mugged, stood up on dates, and discuss the value of education. The episodes are never clever and the jokes from each have been stolen from better sitcoms that came before.
Meet the Browns should be avoided at all costs.
DVD Bonus Features
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"Meet the Browns: Season 4" is on sale January 24, 2012 and is not rated. Comedy. Directed by Kim Fields, Tyler Perry. Written by Tyler Perry, Anthony C. Hill, Joseph Hampton. Starring David Mann, Denise Boutte, Lamman Rucker.
