I?m still not totally buying these characters, but damn if I?m not involved. But then, at a certain point, I find that, yes, I?ve been sucked in (sort of).
And make no mistake, it is a gift, because just about every time I sit down to watch a Tyler Perry movie, I have a similar reaction, which is that for half an hour or so I?m rolling my eyes at the crudity of the setups, the loud, placard-worthy two-dimensionality of the characters (Perry is one of the only directors who can overstate understatement). Given that his voluminous filmmaking schedule has been accompanied by eight seasons of the TBS show Tyler Perry?s House of Payne (which is often two or three degrees subtler than his movies), there?s no doubt that he?s got a special gift for churning out this stuff by the yard.
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Until then, we?re stuck with A Madea Christmas, which has to be about the tenth movie in which Perry gathers a handful of characters in a house and lets the melodramatic soap-opera conflicts crackle and strike. There?s enough casually outlandish behavior in Madea?s backstory to make one think that Madea: The Early Years can?t be far behind - and, in fact, might not be a bad way to go. And in Tyler Perry?s A Madea Christmas, she slips in some quick notes of bawdy nostalgia going back to the days when she was ?on that pole? (i.e., a stripper), when she hawked Christmas ?trees? (i.e., marijuana), when she was on the ?black market? (i.e., peddling her own flesh to survive), and when she ?marched? with Jesse Jackson (but they weren?t standing up - get it?).
But she?s also a gun-toting troublemaker who has zero respect for ?the po-po.? She?s an outlaw at heart.
Madea, of course, is outwardly a fuddy-duddy, a primly dressed church lady, always cocking an eyebrow of disapproval and scolding other people for their sins. When Tyler Perry is portraying Madea, there?s a sparkle in his eye each time the furious, glowering, towering old gray battle-ax slips in a reference to the wild woman she once was, back in the age of Civil Rights and soul kitchens.
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