Seeing Larry the Cable Guy go joke-for-joke with Tyler Perry is novel for a couple of moment, but really he and Najimy are the only ones who are consistently funny, since poor Madea has to spend most of the movie compensating for or chastising her killjoy of a niece Eileen, who is not only racist but also classist and insensitive and downright cruel. And it also makes Lacey infinitely less likable as a character, because what kind of person forces their loving, ridiculously handsome husband and his loving parents to pretend they're a paid employee and his poor parents? Despite changing things up by having the black parent be the prejudiced one (please see Something New for a much better example of this twist on the Guess Who's Coming to Dinner trope), the issue is handled with heavy handed stereotypes and cliches. They might look like bigots, Perry is saying, but they're the progressive ones when it comes to the interracial relationship. But let's start with the good: Najimy and Larry the Cable Guy do elicit laughs as the surprisingly open-minded 'country folks' who love the beautiful Lacey and can see why she's a good match for their handsome college-educated son. Overall, this holiday installment (which includes, no lie, digital Christmas present wipes in between scenes) is one of Perry's worst executed Madea movies. As Eileen's treatment of Conner and his folks goes from aloof to rude, Madea forces Lacey to finally stand up to her mother on Christmas. When Conner's parents ( Larry the Cable Guy and Kathy Najimy) - who do know about the elopement - arrive from Louisiana, they also agree to play along for Lacey's sake. But her bigger problem is that she's married to Conner ( Eric Lively), a white agricultural engineer she pretends is her 'farm hand' when her mother and Aunt Madea show up unexpectedly.

Lacey, an elementary school teacher, tries to save her adopted hometown's annual Christmas jubilee by asking her well-connected ex-boyfriend Oliver (JR Lemon) to find a sponsor. When Eileen finds out that her daughter Lacey isn't going to visit her for Christmas, Eileen enlists Madea to accompany her to the 'country' (rural Alabama) to surprise Lacey ( Tika Sumpter) for the holiday. When TYLER PERRY'S A MADEA CHRISTMAS begins, Madea( Tyler Perry) is in need of a job, so her niece Eileen ( Anna Maria Horsford) gets her a retail gig at a Macy's-like department store.

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