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But, with the right forgiving yuletide mood, it’s a funky fun little guilty pleasure, with some well-meaning themes around the fringes.Ĭenter screen, without a doubt, is the oddball charmer of Perry’s sequel-ready character Madea, a large and large-spirited African-American auntie with little to zero tolerance for lies or socially correct BS, and a hip, loosey-goosey way with the English language.
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In actor/writer/director/phenom Tyler Perry’s latest visit to the big screen, the heart of the Christmas-flick enterprise lives somewhere between the comedic lines “If you put Viagra in the tree’s water, it’ll stay up all year” and the hopeful race relations message “Every generation sees a little less division.” Unfortunately, the comic zing - delivered by Perry’s sassy Madea character and the shameless jokester Larry the Cable Guy - far out-trumps the dramatic life or social-commentary aspects of this often hackneyed holiday-movie concoction. PERRY CHRISTMAS: Tyler Perry wrote, directed, and plays the title character in A Madea Christmas. Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window).Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).