High production designer, Eloise Crane Stammerjohn costume designer, Johnetta Boone sound (Dolby Digital/Datasat), Chris Duffy supervising sound editor, Mike Wilhoit re-recording mixers, Joe Barnett, Marshall Garlington special effects coordinator, David Fletcher visual effects, Crafty Apes visual effects supervisor, Chris LeDoux assistant director, Donald Murphy casting, Kim Coleman. Camera (color, Deluxe prints), Alexander Gruszynski editor, Maysie Hoy music, Christopher Young music supervisor, Joel C. Produced by Perry, Ozzie Areu, Matt Moore.ĭirected, written by Tyler Perry, from his play. Running time: 105 MIN.Ī Lionsgate release of a Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios production. Subplots, including a half-hearted treatise on bullying and an adorable little boy (Noah Urrea) with dreams of singing in the Christmas pageant, are scattered artlessly here and there, as are bit roles for long-forgotten viral video sensations Antoine “Bed Intruder” Dodson and Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins.įilm Review: ‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas’ This time America’s favorite irreverent, pistol-packin’ grandmomma is raising hell behind bars. Other comic setpieces range from amiably cliched (Madea’s malaprop-heavy summary of the Book of Luke) to jaw-droppingly awful, reaching a particularly painful nadir when Larry’s ghost-themed sexual role playing causes Eileen to mistake him for a Klansman. At long last, Madea returns to the big screen in TYLER PERRY’S MADEA GOES TO JAIL. However predisposed (or not) one might be to appreciating their signature personae, Perry and Larry’s scenes together are easily the highlights of the film, as they at least provide these shticksters with the opportunity to bounce old-timey banter off one another, rather than simply performing to the camera. (The decision to cast a black woman as the unrepentant bougie bigot who confuses her white in-laws for “the help” could have been interestingly subversive in other hands, though Perry does very little with it.) Furthermore, the corporate sponsor for the town jubilee turns out to be the very same company that built the dam that ruined the local farmlands, though this seems to matter far less to the townsfolk than the company’s insistence on secularizing the Christmas festivities, which allows Perry to throw some particularly patronizing scraps of red meat to any Bill O’Reilly devotees who may have wandered into the theater.
More complications arise when Conner’s hayseed parents (Larry the Cable Guy, Kathy Najimy), arrive in town for a visit, with the whole family now enlisted to continue Lacey’s charade for the increasingly unpleasant Eileen. Even if it's awful, it'll be better than socks.Also inexplicably in tow with Madea and Eileen is Lacey’s high-school boyfriend, Oliver (JR Lemon), a corporate bigwig of some kind with whom Lacey has reconnected while seeking a corporate sponsor for her school’s annual Christmas jubilee, which the local farmers rely on financially after a newly built dam decimated their crops. All I know for sure is that A Madea Christmas is shaping up to be the one Christmas present this year that won't leave me quivering in a fetal ball of disappointment. And by "we" I mean "me," though that feels grammatically incorrect. She'd fit right in with Perry's ever growing cast of bizarre old people with raspy voices. She'll pop up, say her thing, and be on the first bus back to Oklahoma within the next half hour. It's just as likely that Sweet Brown's participation in A Madea Christmas will look about the same as a Sweet Brown Saturday Night Live cameo would look. It's not impossible that he sees something worth developing in her bizarre character and line delivery.īut he's done these cultural cameos before, and they never turn out how you'd want. I'd like to think Tyler Perry is the one filmmaker in the world who might actually request Sweet Brown do more than just recycle her big catch phrases like we all expect. Not only is she using her popularity to star in dentist commercials and appear on talk shows, but it looks like she'll be participating in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas as well. A Madea Christmas was based on Perry’s play of the same name: I haven’t seen it, so I have no idea how faithful he is to himself, but watching the film I could imagine how it might have worked. It's certainly been enough to make her momentarily famous.
That clip may be short, but every second of it is hilarious.
Not that her participation in Internet culture should be downplayed. Her almost one year old viral video, found above, is quite short, and encompasses the extent of what she's known for. There's not much to the whole Sweet Brown thing, anyway. Perhaps I was too distracted by the eventual rise of Kai, the hatchet-wielding homeless superhero. Are you familiar with Sweet Brown? I ask because until this news broke out, I had somehow managed to avoid her soothing magic for a shocking amount of time.
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