In “Joe’s College Road Trip,” Tyler Perry doesn’t just let his hair down, he isn’t just having down-and-dirty fun — he’s wildly, deliriously profane. The movie is a rude and rollicking lark, which makes it an anomaly in the Perry canon; even the Madea films are attached to some earnest swatches of domestic soap opera. But “Joe’s College Road Trip” is built around a character who makes Madea, in her hectoring brashness, look prim and responsible. That would be Madea’s brother, Joseph “KP” Simmons, a long-standing member of the Perry stock company of old-school cranks (he’s played, as always, under pounds of makeup, by Perry himself).
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