“Boo! A Madea Halloween” just recently hit theaters and after sitting through the film, I have decided that it was a waste of time. From the dull plot structure, overall bad acting, and immature jokes, this film reeks of pumping out a movie to make a quick buck.

One of the worst things about “Boo! A Madea Halloween” was that two thirds of the theater consisted of children. I found this highly inappropriate considering the film’s sexual innuendos and vulgar characters such as Hattie. I was surprised that this film was given a PG-13 rating with the amount of adult material. Personally,  I would have given it an R rating or ideally, done the human race a favor by burning all copies of the movie. The only people who would enjoy this movie are small children and those with no genuine sense of humor.

Looking at the marketing process for the movie, it seems that the production team used their entire casting budget on hiring low talent YouTubers. The awful acting and flat plot line writing by Tyler Perry epitomizes everything wrong with adolescence and commercial film making. Tyler Perry, on the off chance that you are reading this, I beg you to stop making movies and perhaps move to the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The marketing for “Boo! A Madea Halloween” is about the most desperate and despicable ad campaign I have ever laid eyes on. One of the main characters was an internet sensation known as FouseyTube. For those who are unfamiliar with FouseyTube, he is an egocentric YouTube prankster who was the reason sixty percent of the theater was watching.

The integration of internet and traditional media has been abysmal in recent years. Almost all movies and television series that are based solely off YouTube celebrities turn out horrible (“The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange”,”Fred: The Show”, and the worst of them all, “Smosh: The Movie.”) All these people who gained massive praise on the internet for their witty writing and delivery ended up eating dirt when it came to television, so you think people would stop making movies with YouTubers, right? Wrong, because traditional studios do not care about art, they care about making money.

The main character or antagonist, (I could not figure out which and the movie did not seem care either) Tiffany, starts off the story by asking her father for permission to attend a fraternity party. Of course, the idea portrayed was that Tiffany wants to grow up, while her father, played by the despicable Tyler Perry, wants to protect her innocence. The situation is a cliche, but still could have been an albeit forgetful movie even with that plot line.

Enter the demon known as Madea and her fellow denizens of hell. Along with Hattie, characters known as Joe, Madea’s estranged husband whose only comedic attribute is that every other word that left his mouth was a curse word and Aunt Bam, which was a character who was based entirely on the fact that she had a prescription for medical marijuana.

The entire movie is a fever dream of Tyler Perry’s horrid writing and the dreadful “and then” plot structure. Tiffany yells at her dad AND THEN Madea shows up AND THEN they steal candy AND THEN clowns show up. The plot was boring, a culmination of throwing pop culture at a screen and hoping it sticks. It does not work successfully like that, it looks like the producers do not know what they are doing, just like in “Ghostbusters” earlier this year. It seems that the producers are saying “let’s throw pop culture at a screen, along with some gaffs for a cheap buck. Ha ha, who cares if we are destroying the art known as cinema, I’m rich!” Cinema is an art, an art in which “Boo! A Madea Halloween” exploits for financial gain, not for the emotion and humanity that can only be captured on film.

A character in a movie should not be a cliche unless conducting a Black Dynamite comedy routine, in which the comedic effect comes from the cliche of the situation itself. Personally, if “Boo! A Madea Halloween” went for the Black Dynamite route as a satire of the “never wanting my daughter to grow up” movie cliche, it could have been a pretty good movie, especially with exploring the insecurities of everyone and the drollness of the genre. The movie itself could have even shifted by the smallest amount into a pretty decent movie, but the producers chose the wrong cliches to portray. Also, random jokes were randomly inserted when they did not pertain to the plot, which continued to kill the movie.

A thing I enjoyed was a central plot point in the movie on whether or not Tiffany’s father should “beat his kids,” which I found absolutely hilarious. It was a great commentary on the generational gap between old school parenting and new school parenting which would have made for a great satirical film with the likes of greats like “Airplane!”. Unfortunately, probably due to studio involvement or Tyler Perry not caring anymore, it turned out to be an abomination.

All things considered, I give “Boo!: A Madea Halloween” a 0/10 rating. The only thing I can say is that they should show this movie to people in Guantanamo Bay, as the entire film is akin to torture.