Jumping the Broom DVD Release Date
Jumping the Broom DVD Release Date
It’s significant that Jumping the Broom and Tyler Perry’s African-American family romp Madea’s Big Happy Family came to occupy entertainment and cultural space at the same time. They’re both addressed to similar themes of class and some specific matters of comic or deeply serious family dysfunction through an underlying core of spiritual messaging. Jumping the Broom manages a more polished and broadly entertaining view as it follows the princess-and-commoner wedding weekend of Jason and Sabrina on her wealthy family’s fantastical Martha’s Vineyard estate. Jason comes from blue-collar Brooklyn, but has made it big on Wall Street and is a perfect catch as far as Sabrina is concerned, particularly since she’s made a vow to God to stop giving away her “cookies” after a series of demoralizing hook-ups. After just five months Jason and Sabrina become engaged, and rushed arrangements supervised by Sabrina’s imperious mom (a steely Angela Bassett) are being made on the Vineyard. Jason’s working-class family crew is wrangled by his mom (Loretta Devine, who also plays a mom in the Madea movie), a hot-tempered matriarch who won’t ‘llow no foolishness from anybody, especially her son and his snooty in-laws-to-be. There’s so much raucous head-butting activity and interaction among all the friends, cousins, uncles, sisters, spouses, chefs, maids, wedding planners, and guests that the movie almost loses its way. Everyone has a back story and business that involve everything from romantic encounters and family dynamics to ethnic stereotypes and profound, secret shames. Fortunately all the elements come around and the busy bickering recedes into resolution as the wedding comes off with plenty of spiritual uplift. The very large cast (all those crazy stories!) is also very good in fulfilling roles that are distinctive and well drawn. In addition to Bassett and Devine, Mike Epps, Tasha Smith, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Gary Dourdan, Romeo, and Julie Bowen as the clueless white planner create an ensemble that deftly entertains against some classy backdrops and lots of laughs. Mega-church pastor and popular self-help author T.D. Jakes is one of the movie’s producers, and he has a small but effective role that serves to define the spiritual and moralistic backbone of the movie. Like Tyler Perry’s message, it’s nothing but traditionalism and common sense, and in Jumping the Broom it’s no impediment to the overall charm. –Ted Fry ( Jumping the Broom DVD Release Date )
Actors: Julie Bowen, Paula Patton
Directors: Salim Akil
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: Cantonese, English, French, Korean, Spanish
Number of discs: 1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
Jumping the Broom DVD Release Date: August 9, 2011
Run Time: 112 minutes
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Review Jumping the Broom DVD
I loved this movie. From the previews, we already know that two people are getting married, and their families are from two different classes. What I was worried about was the non-elite group would be extra ghetto, stereotypical, loud and obnoxious, basically everything that awful “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family” was. Instead we got an intelligent group of blue collar workers with a couple family members who just weren’t impressed with the bells and whistles. Yeah, they kept it “real,” but it was real in the sense that it wasn’t degrading, and I LOVED that about this film. I’d never seen Loretta Devine play a role that wasn’t overly nice and motherly in the sweetest way, so it was fascinating to see her as the obnoxious post office worker and mean mother-in-law-to-be. I was equally ecstatic to find out that Tasha Smith would FINALLY not be playing the angry black woman. I was completely thrown off at how Angela Bassett pulled off such a snobbish, catty role. She did really well, even though she seems so chill in real life. Paula Patton continues to progress as an actress, and I loved her in this film. I already knew Laz Alonso and Mike Epps (the latter being ridiculously funny) were going to kill it, and Laz Alonso and Paula Patton had a ginormous amount of onscreen romantic chemistry. Romeo did his thing, and his acting has improved a lot, too. DeRay Davis was funny in the way only DeRay can do, and I liked him and Mike Epps in the same movie together. Neither was trying to out-funny the other, and they both worked well. Mike Epps was actually doing a lot of serious acting in the middle of his jokes, so I give him MAJOR respect for doing it in such a convincing way.
I just read that Brian Stokes Mitchell, who played the elite father, was Trevor on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.” Although I don’t recognize him from that television show, he’s so handsome and he did so well in this film. I would love to see him in more stuff, but apparently I’ve never seen anything he’s done outside of that television show. When I first saw him, I was thinking, “Where did he come from? Please hire him more often.” I almost always like anything Meagan Good is in, and I love everything about Valarie Pettiford. Her personality just bursts on television and in movies. ( Jumping the Broom DVD Release Date )
