TRASH IN MY EYE No. 7 of 2026 (No. 2055) by Leroy Douresseaux
Tyler Perry's Madea's Destination Wedding (2025)
Running time: 102 minutes (1 hour, 42 minutes)
Rating: MPA – PG-13 for strong language, crude/sexual material, drug material, and some violence
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Tyler Perry
PRODUCERS: Tyler Perry, Angi Bones, and Yolanda T. Cochran
CINEMATOGRAPHERS: Justyn Moro (D.o.P.) and Michael Wilson (D.o.P.)
EDITOR: Larry Sexton
COMPOSER: Jongnic Tontemps
COMEDY/DRAMA
Starring: Tyler Perry, Cassi Davis, David Mann, Tamela J. Mann, Taja V. Simpson, Diamond White, Jermaine Harris, Xavier Smalls,Walnette Carrington, and Brandon Sutton
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SUMMARY OF REVIEW:
Madea's Destination Wedding is a true return to form for the “Madea” film series. Everything that Madea films do well, this film does exceptionally well
The film's beautiful locations make this movie the best-looking “Madea” movie to date. Between the comedy and pretty locations, I felt like I wanted to be there
Madea's Destination Wedding is a long-deserved gift to Madea fans, but it can also work as a good introduction to this series for newcomers
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Madea's Destination Wedding is a 2025 American comedy-drama film from writer-director Tyler Perry. It is the 14th film in the “Madea” film series. The film is also a Netflix original and began streaming on service July 11, 2025. In Madea's Destination Wedding, Madea travels to the Bahamas for her granddaughter's wedding, but tensions, strangeness, and suspicions abound.
Madea's Destination Wedding finds U.S. Attorney Brian Simmons (Tyler Perry) having dinner with his daughter, Tiffany (Diamond White); son, “BJ” (Jermaine Harris); and their mother, Brian's ex-wife, Debrah (Taja V. Simpson). Tiffany and Debrah surprise Brian with the introduction of Tiffany's boyfriend, Zavier (Xavier Smalls)... and with the news that Tiffany and Zavier are getting married. The surprises don't stop; the nuptials will happen as a “destination wedding” in the Bahamas.
Now, Brian is forced to lead a caravan of relatives to the Bahamas. That includes his aunt, Mabel “Madea” Simmons (Tyler Perry); his father and Madea's older brother, Uncle Joe Simmons (Tyler Perry); Madea's daughter, Cora Simmons (Tamela J. Mann); Cora's supposed father, Mr. Brown (David Mann); Madea's cousin, Aunt Bam (Tamela J. Mann), and BJ. They arrive to find that the Bahamas are beautiful and the hotel is luxurious and opulent.
However, there is more to Tiffany and Zavier's wedding than what appears on the surface, and the results may lead to disaster, heartache, and a canceled wedding. Meanwhile, Madea and company are enjoying the idea of “put it on the room” too much.
Madea's Destination Wedding is the best Madea movie since 2019's A Madea Family Funeral (which was originally supposed to be the final film in the series). It is certainly much better than 2022's Netflix original Madea film, A Madea Homecoming. Madea's Destination Wedding picks up story elements from Boo! A Madea Halloween (2016) and Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017), which largely dealt with the melodrama surrounding Brian Simmons' daughter, Tiffany, who is engaged to be married in this new film.
I thoroughly enjoyed Madea's Destination Wedding. I felt so good after watching it that I didn't want it to end. It reminds me of the run of Madea films beginning in the 20-10s with Madeas Big Happy Family (2011), which all offered a delightful mix of Christian moralism, family reconciliation and forgiveness, redemption, and lots of yucks from Madea and company. If Tyler Perry can't make future Madea movies like Madea's Destination Wedding, then, he should retire the series.
I had forgotten to watch Madea's Destination Wedding when it first arrived last year, but I recently watched it in preparation for the new “Uncle Joe” film, Joe's College Road Trip (2026). I am happy that I got around to watching this. Madea's Destination Wedding is true to the spirit of the best Madea films, with smatterings of Christian spirituality, faith, forgiveness, redemption, and a great deal of broad comedy and slapstick. And Madea's Destination Wedding does it well enough to make me feel good about watching it.
7 of 10
A-
★★★½ out of 4 stars
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