Perry is a film writer, a producer and a director who once again slips into a fat suit and drags to play Mabel M. Simmons, the hefty, volatile matriarch better known as Madea. She is a grey-haired, foul-mouthed, cigarette-smoking woman, who has never met a problem that could have not been solved with aggression. After Madea clears out a party with a machine-gun and bogarts a parking space using a forklift she ends up in jail, where she immediately shoves a convict's head into a laundry press.

 

Madea’s life and so-called activity has absolutely nothing to do with Josh, played by Derek Luke, a dapper young prosecutor trying to rescue his childhood friend Candace embodied by Keshia Knight Pulliam from a life of prostitution. In spite of the fact that the two pictures are completely parallel, Perry has never met a premise that can't be padded with subplots. Thereinafter the film flip-flops schizophrenically and without warning between broad slapstick and tear-streaked melodrama.

 

The film's funniest moment, irrelevant though, comes when Madea spots a Christian bracelet inscribed "WWJD?" As a Madea-like translation, she takes a scornful guess: "What's Wrong with Jermaine Dupri?"