10 Most Annoying Christmas Movies Of All Time
2. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
Tyler Perry movies are not for everyone. It's not a race thing, or a class thing, or even a religion thing. It's a pain tolerance thing.
Everything about this movie, including the perfunctory Christmas setting, is drowned out by the shrill, crass, bellowing behavior of Tyler Perry's go-to drag caricature. Even appearances by Larry the Cable guy seems downright subtle when compared to Madea's broad and overblown diatribes.
As with all of Perry's Madea movies, there's a weird tonal dynamic at play, whiplashing back and forth between vulgar humor and melodramatic sermonizing. They don't complement each other, instead only making each bit of "no-nonsense" hostility stab at the eardrums with an even icier point.
There are a lot of sociopathic tendencies on display here -- mostly by the titular character, but everyone comes off as slightly deranged or borderline psychotic at one point or another -- and it makes most of the physical gags more cringeworthy than laughable.
It's clunky, it's crude, it's corny, and it's outrageous for the sake of being outrageous.