New madea christmas movie11/12/2022 ![]() But rather than repeat that film's formula, Tyler Perry now seems eager to mix Madea with the larger world. It took until Madea's Big Happy Family for Tyler Perry to finally get it right. Madea's evolution from marquee cameo player to actual marquee star has been fascinating to watch. Tyler Perry used her to get audiences to the theater, but gave them only a fraction of the character they actually wanted to see. At first, she was just a loud but minor figure hanging out on the edge of melodramas that barely concerned her. Tyler Perry has not had an easy time figuring out the best way to use this character, partially because his comedy skills are so largely accidental and partially because he hates her. I don't really know where to begin with this movie other than to say it's a treasure trove for Madea enthusiasts, of which this site might have four, me included. It lacks most of his amoral insanity, but it fills that divot with lots of weird humor and one of the strangest bromances I've ever seen. ![]() A Madea Christmas, for the first time in several years, meets those expectations. But once you get into Perry, you begin to develop certain expectations. Even his very best films teem with nonsense that automatically disqualify them from typical quality standards. When I say a Tyler Perry movie is especially good, I only really mean that in comparison to other Tyler Perry films. ![]()
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