By the standards of Tyler Perry’s Madea series, A Madea Christmas is better than average.
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New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Comedy characters change and grow. Sometimes, as we see in Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas, they become so much like old relatives that their edge is gone.
An exceptionally poor piece of holiday cash-in product, rushed and ungainly even by the low standard set by Perry's seven previous Madea films, yet it should be every bit as profitable.
I don’t know, maybe it worked as theater. Onscreen, it’s torture.
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The DissolveNathan Rabin
The DissolveNathan Rabin
A Madea Christmas belongs to a rancid strain of Yuletide trifles that feature awful people being terrible to each other for 90 minutes under the sway of insulting plot contrivances before the awfulness is climactically washed away in an avalanche of holiday sentimentality.