Its message and moral is certainly heavy-handed, as is typical in Tyler Perry movies, but this feels like a special Christmas episode of one of Tyler's own TV series. Yet, and somehow, since Tyler Perry writes like he's the show-runner of a soap opera, this is one of his least 'interesting' films in recent memory. Things get complicated once Connor's parents come to visit and Eileen starts to treat them, and Connor, like dog shit. Lacey knows her mother, Eileen, would disapprove so she keeps it hidden from her while letting her believe that Connor is just the farm help. Lacey, a black woman, marries Connor, a white man. Tyler Perry just doesn't know how to write drama, yet he keeps trying, hard as he might, to force dramatic stories around the Madea character, so she can give advice or whatever.

The story in this film is horrendous, truly. I'm not saying a movie solely centered on Madea getting up to her antics would be any better, but it couldn't get any worse. Of course, the problem is the fact that he often sticks Madea in the background so other characters, and their terrible stories, can take the spotlight. He adds a life and energy to the film that is hard to deny. I may not like the character at all, or Tyler Perry's movies even more so, but the guy is good at it. Look, the Madea character is amusing, even if it is an offensive racial stereotype, but I will never say that Tyler Perry doesn't do a good job as the character. Nobody will ever confuse his movies with truly great works of art. Then again, nobody will ever accuse Tyler Perry of being a talented writer. Tyler Perry is at odds with his own writing.

That cognitive dissonance doe, as the kids would say. How there are more open hearts and open minds. It's all very ironic because the film, in a monologue by Kim, Conner's mother, to Eileen after she finds out her daughter is married to a white man, she makes it a point to say that the world has changed for the better. But I'm not gonna get into a whole rant of the hypocrisy of christians because I won't end up reviewing this movie at all. This sort of intolerant 'my religion is more important than yours and I will let you know it' is simply an unacceptable message.

So not EVERYONE is gonna celebrate the same thing during the holidays. It just shows that there's far more diversity than there was in the country before, with people coming from various backgrounds and religions.

I believe all religions are nonsense, but, in my opinion, there's nothing wrong with wishing someone a happy holiday instead of merry christmas. And, of course, not to mention the fact that they like to pretend that christianity is the only religion that matters and all others shouldn't be celebrated. Only in movies are christians minorities and christianity isn't the dominant religion in the entirety of the United States.

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