On stage is where the true Madea lives - where Perry can dominate in his drag-queen housedress, where stereotypes can be big and brassy, where the actors proclaim their personalities to the third balcony and burst into gospel songs to touch desperate or soaring emotions and lift the crowd. (FIND: Tyler Perry on TIME’s list of 25 Most Important Movies About Race)Īnd those, folks, are the complete comic highlights of Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, latest in the writer-director-producer-star’s series of low-budget, homemade, Christian-themed movies that have earned nearly $700 million at the domestic box office in less than a decade. An improvement over Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family and Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection only in that the title dispenses with the double possessives, this eighth Madea movie is pretty lame even by Perry’s slapdash standards.īefore making a movie, Perry will write the project as a play with music and take it on the road. Madea meets a garrulous Southerner (Larry the Cable Guy) who cheerfully asks, “Did you hear the one about the two rabbis and the black dude…?” The 6-foot-5 lady of color stares him down and shuts him up with: “Did you hear the one about the stray bullet that killed the redneck for tellin’ the one about the two rabbis and the black dude?” Even Motel 6 wouldn’t leave the light on for them.” It’s all in the Bible, in “Second Deuteronimo.”

Blige” and her husband “Joe” came to “the holy city of Birmingham” and couldn’t find a room “at the Ramada Inn. While the teacher is away, grandma Madea commandeers a small classroom of sixth-graders in tiny Bucktussle, Ala., with her own rendition of the Nativity story. “You want a TV? You need a J-O-B.” “You wanna stocking full of candy? How ’bout I give you a stocking full o’ Jenny Craig?” And to the crowd of onlookers: “Y’all been to the North Pole? So have I.” Standing and grinding her hips: “I been on the pole, ha ha.” Follow she’ll be paid $5 for each child she greets as a department-store Santa in Atlanta, Mabel “Madea” Simmons (Tyler Perry) abruptly dismisses the kids’ Christmas wishes.

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