Madea’s Destination Wedding Review
Madea’s Destination Wedding (2025) Film Review, a movie written and directed by Tyler Perry and starring Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, David Mann, Tamela J. Mann, Taja V. Simpson, Diamond White, Jermaine Harris, Xavier Smalls, Walnette Carrington, Brandon Sutton, Bree Shannon, Melanie Kiran, Rocky Myers and Ines Sanchez-Nagakane.
Tyler Perry didn’t get rich in his career because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing, especially with his never-ending Madea franchise. Madea is a safe character to tell relatable stories through because we all most likely have that one family member who goes on and on and never stops. Madea is Perry’s way of letting loose and saying things he probably couldn’t say through any other character. Madea’s Destination Wedding is, at times, a hysterically funny and touching story of a family coming together through a key character’s wedding. Unfortunately, Madea, as played by Perry, is (as per the norm) over-the-top and crass. Still, Madea’s Destination Wedding offers audiences a few big laughs along the way and some warm moments that will most likely tug at the heartstrings.
This film begins at night at a gas station with two thugs trying to rob Madea’s purse. She gets back at them in a wild and crazy way by fighting them off, but perhaps, the film is going too far when she accidentally sets them on fire and Madea and her family flee the scene in a hurry.
Perry’s regular character here is a divorced man named Brian who is having dinner with his ex-wife, Debrah (a well-cast Taja V. Simpson) at the plot’s start. They have a grown daughter, Tiffany (Diamond White), who is getting married in the Bahamas in what feels like it may be a shotgun wedding scenario. Tiffany is marrying a guy named Zavier (the eventually likable Xavier Smalls) who has a street-wise personality and different hair than Brian may have imagined his daughter’s fiance having. Brian will have to either try to get Zavier to go away somehow or learn to accept his daughter’s feelings for him.
Madea needs a passport to travel to the wedding so this makes for more hilarious absurdity as she visits an office to get one and has a bit of a breakdown in a way only the offbeat Madea could. When the family eventually gets to the Bahamas to prepare for the wedding, there are some funny sequences. A lot of them are more vulgar and crude than they could have been and, in one instance, Madea rambles off the occasionally surprising years in which she has had sex. Look, if we need Madea to get to the other stuff in the film, so be it. She’s funny and Perry is relentless as usual, not letting up until the scenes run their course.
What I liked best about Madea’s Destination Wedding is when Zavier’s mom surprisingly comes in to the action. Brian is not a fan of the character played by Smalls, but there may be some revelations that will make Brian come around and see that his daughter’s happiness could be at risk if Brian scares Zavier off. You’ll be delighted at the plot developments that occur if you enjoy realistic family situations that occur in everyday life.
I’m absolutely sure Perry saw Home Alone 2: Lost in New York when the ending arrives which will tickle the funny bone as it rivals the scene in Home Alone 2 where Kevin is asked if he ordered x amount in room service because of a large bill. There are plenty of hilarious moments peppered in-between those that are too insane to be believable. Of course, family members go to the casino and gamble, but Brian should be smart enough to somehow monitor their spending a bit better. That’s where the movie gets implausible.
Perry is terrific as Brian. I’ve never seen him so relaxed and natural as an actor. He has good connections with his cast members and the bond Brian has with Tiffany is especially well conveyed on-screen. As Madea, the routine is getting old for me, but for others who are new to the material, they may just warm up to Madea’s hilariously crude nature. Dude Perry sure looks like a lady and gets the job done the only way he knows how.
I’m not going to lie. I was as furious at some of the banal dialogue exchanges as I was touched by the more intimate moments of family revelations. I don’t really recommend the film to everyone, but I enjoyed Perry’s work as Brian and the fact that the movie deals with issues of commitment, money and education problems and things like that when other comedies tend to ignore some of these topics and race by them in an effort to unveil funny scenes.
Madea’s Destination Wedding is nothing short of a moving and wild comedy that will have some audiences waiting with open arms for Madea’s next movie and others hoping this series will one day soon come to a close.
Rating: 6/10
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