Madea's Destination Wedding is a 2025 American comedy film produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry and his seventh film to be released by Netflix. It was released on July 11, 2025. Perry reprises his role as Mabel "Madea" Simmons, Joe Simmons, and Brian Simmons while the rest of the principal cast consists of Cassi Davis Patton, David Mann, Tamela Mann, Taja V. Simpson, Diamond White, Jermaine Harris, and Xavier Smalls. The film tells the story of Madea and her extended family going to the Bahamas for a destination wedding when Brian Simmons' daughter Tiffany proposes to a man named Zavier. It is the thirteenth film in the Madea cinematic universe. The film received negative reviews according to Rotten Tomatoes.
Madea, her daughter Cora, and Mr. Brown are leaving the grocery store at night, Cora is unnerved by Madea's decision to shop at night given the neighborhood's reputation and Madea and Brown had a petty argument over which one of them is good looking. As Cora tries to rush for them to get out of here and about to take the cart back, Madea takes the cart and throws it off across the parking lot, causing it to violently wreck into another car, triggering its alarm and force the trio to frantically flee the scene. As Madea frantically drives out of the parking lot, she goes to a nearby gas station to refill her car, Madea tells Cora to pay for gas as she refills her car, but they argue for a second as Cora demands Madea to give her the money and Madea refuses and sents a frustrated Cora into the convenient store, Cora pays $2 for gas to get back at Madea. Meanwhile, as Madea is about to refill her car, a car of robbers park next to her car and attempted to take her purse from her seat, but Madea catches them in the act and runs to get her purse from the robbers, the robbers point their guns at her to intimidate her into surrendering her purse, but Madea is unmoved and swings her purse at the robbers, then she grabs the gas dispenser and sprays them and their car with gas, forcing them to get back in their car and flee as Madea taunts them, and as they about to drive away, Madea activates her lighter and throws it to blow the car, sending the robbers to panic in flames. Cora and Brown race out of the store to see what happened, but Madea and Cora run back to the car to flee the scene but Madea drove off with Cora but without Brown without caring about him as Brown chases Madea to catch up.
Meanwhile, Brian is at a fancy restaurant with his ex wife Deborah to wait for their now adult children BJ and Tiffany for a family announcement, and during the wait at their table, tensions were boiling between Brian and Deborah, only to be diffused by BJ's arrival, who comes in with wear that Deborah secretly thought was eccentric, and after BJ left for the restroom, to which he refers to his situation as "tinkle" and called the restroom the "laboratory", Deborah argues with Brian over BJ's style. As they about to blow up into a full argument, Tiffany and her boyfriend come, Brian is immediately disturbed by her boyfriend, who introduces himself as Zavier but goes by Z for short, and Tiffany, Deborah, and BJ knew him going back to their family trip to Italy, they all sat at the table to deliver the news to Brian, they tell him that Tiffany and Zavier are getting married and that Deborah gave the aspiring couple her blessing and ask for Brian's, but Brian sees Zavier as immature and a bad influence on his family, he excuses himself by lying about a dog he doesn't have and abruptly leaves the restaurant, leaving Tiffany, Deborah, and BJ confused about a family dog.
Upset, Brian sits on his aunt Madea's porch steps, but his own father Joe thinks he's an intruder and approaches him with a pistol pointing at him, Joe pinches Brian to confirm that is his son and Madea comes from the bushes in a camouflage suit holding a semi-automatic weapon. After Brian had a little argument with Madea and Joe about the law, with Joe comedically confused and slurring about the 2nd Amendment to defend his right to use a firearm, Brian gives up on the argument and says to them that Tiffany is getting married in a couple of weeks to a boy who she just met and who he hates, Madea and Joe immediately assumed it to be a shotgun wedding, Brian wonders to Madea and Joe of whether he failed as a father and offended Joe in the process by saying if he had "a better example of a father..." and Madea and Joe defended their beatings they gave him by saying he's now the District Attorney of Atlanta if it wasn't for their method of discipline. Madea proposes to Brian to come play cards and have some dinner at her house with the whole family, Brian agrees and Madea abruptly sents him off. Back at the DA office, Brian is trying to find info on Zavier, but to no avail, he orders a thorough investigation into Zavier with the FBI. Back at Madea's house, Brian is playing Poker with Joe, Bam, and Mr. Brown, but he's too depressed to participate in the game, when everyone kept assuming Tiffany is getting married because she's pregnant, Brian vehemently denied she's pregnant, but curious why Tiffany wants to marry this soon, with Bam keeping her perception that it's because she's pregnant. Deborah, Tiffany, BJ, and Z came to Madea's house to inform them all that they are invited to attend the wedding and that the wedding will be held abroad, Deborah provides extra details, that the wedding will take place at the Atlantis Paradise Island in The Bahamas, Deborah said she chose the Bahamas as a cheaper option financially for Brian because by tradition, the father pays for the wedding of his daughter, but Deborah also offered to pay for it herself because she's married to a rich man, but Brian took this as Deborah trying to make him look selfish in front of his family, Joe and Madea tried to talk Brian from taking the bait, but Brian capitulates and says he will pay for the travel and wedding expenses, exciting the whole family.
Brian arranges Madea, Cora, Brown, and Joe to get their passports, but Madea is paranoid because everyone has to register with the U.S. federal government to get a passport, fearing she'll get arrested in the process given her extensive criminal record, but Cora tries to calm Madea down and insisting that getting one's passport is simpler than she thinks, but then Madea's paranoia hardens as she sees a woman getting escorted out from a room in handcuffs, furthering her refusal to go through the process even as her name is being called for passport processing, Madea fights with her family only to be tricked by Mr. Brown that they're giving away a free TV, she goes for the process, during which, she poses for a picture as required, but she confused the passport identification process as a jail booking process and the woman processing her tells her to just pose forward for her picture, then a cop comes in to whisper something in the woman's ear and she leaves, the cop takes over the process. Madea excuses herself and runs from the room and breaks through a glass door, falling on the floor, causing everyone who surround Madea out of concern, and the same woman who processed her picture awkwardly handed her her passport. At the airport, Brian tells his cousin Cora that this wedding is costing him a fortune, but he has assets saved, and that Deborah's husband is taking Tiffany and Z to the Bahamas on his private jet instead of flying commercially with them.
During the plane ride to the Bahamas after a family argument over seats, Madea, Joe, and Bam mocked BJ behind his back for attending to his coloring book, Cora defended BJ by saying they make coloring books for adults for mental relaxation, then the plane shakes, making everyone unnerved but Brown could no longer hold as he becomes desperate to use the bathroom, but he said "I'm about to blow it up!" to empathize his desperation to use the bathroom, but his words were misinterpreted as a bomb threat and is tackled down by a federal marshall, only to realize that he meant he needed to use the bathroom after he defecated on himself, stinking up the whole plane, and Brown goes to the bathroom embarrassed.
The family arrived in The Bahamas at last, they go check in at the Atlantis Resort, they were told that two junior suites are available, which outraged the family against Brian, but then Deborah founds them at the lobby and greets them and then tells them that due to her and her husband's connections to the owner of the resort, she managed to get their actual rooms on standby in anticipation of Brian's inability to afford their individual rooms. Deborah gets Madea, Bam, and Cora settled in their rooms, which are connected to each other but still provides their personal space. After Deborah left, Madea expresses her suspicion of her to Cora, Cora wanted to hear none of it and says to Madea to enjoy herself. As the ladies walk around the hotel, they encountered Tiffany and Z, Tiffany and Z tell them that a bachelor party is being prepared and the ladies aren't invited, Tiffany wants Z to invite Brian, he agrees, then goes to Joe while he gambles, wondering if Brian should be invited, Joe said no; meanwhile, BJ is trying to convince Brown to go down the water slide, but he is afraid, and after Brown eventually went down, he panics in a 3ft pool and comes out with Madea and Bam making fun of him for overreacting, when Brown and BJ caught up with Joe and Z, Z invites them to the bachelor party too, with Brown saying he'll only go only if it's a religious event. Madea, Bam, and Cora are at a store where they met Deborah and Tiffany to show off her wedding dress, but the ladies had an argument over whether the wedding is being forced ahead against Tiffany's will, but Deborah defends the impending marriage, Madea demanded Tiffany to speak up for herself and stop letting her mother control things, but Tiffany insists that she's marrying Z out of love. Deborah gets Tiffany out of the store. The family reunited at a buffet and Brian is told before he joins the table that the investigation into Z led to nothing and Brian decided that just let the marriage proceed without objection, Brown accidentally tells Brian about Z's bachelor party, Bam tells Brian that the father does not attend the bachelor party. Brian is told by Madea to just let Tiffany marry Z, but be there for her when if the marriage fails, saying she had the same situation with Cora when she divorced, making Cora looking embarrassed in the process.
At the bachelor party, Joe takes Brown to the party and brings strippers to the bar, posing them as the choir, when the music starts, they revealed themselves as strippers, causing Brown to panic. Meanwhile, Brian sees Z arguing with a woman, he assumed it was an affair, and Bam, who was gambling, texted Madea to come see her at the gambling table and Bam discreetly orders Madea to easedrop on Deborah's husband Dennis arguing with Deborah on the phone, unwittingly spilling the tea of the true intentions of Deborah's push for the wedding, Madea gets off the table to confront him, and he confesses that he and Deborah are divorcing and he was funding Tiffany's and BJ's lives at Deborah's requests. Tiffany goes to see if Z was keeping his promise with Deborah chasing her, but they all came to the scene of Z and this woman arguing, Brian accuses Z of sleeping with her despite his wedding with Tiffany, and Madea tells Tiffany that Deborah is getting a divorce from her stepfather without a prenup and Dennis promised Deborah that he'd give Tiffany and BJ each a million dollars for when Tiffany gets married and BJ goes to college, Tiffany is hurt by the revelations and Deborah defends this as an act of generosity, and Z chases Tiffany as she says the wedding is off and runs off crying. As they all walk off, Joe flirts with Deborah and this woman and walks away, visibly creeping them out.
Brian comes to Z's room to confront him, but the woman comes to intervene, she reveals herself as Z's estranged mother, and she defended Z, Z walks out and she left too, leaving Brian a little guilt-ridden. Madea, Cora, and Bam comes to comfort Tiffany at the lobby, Tiffany expresses how hurt she is by her mother's exploitation, but then Deborah came with deep remorse, she tries to defend the gesture as all about her, Tiffany says all she needed was Deborah to be there and she runs off sobbing. Brian goes to Z at the balcony to reconcile, Z makes clear that he is trying to establish his life after a rough upbringing and that he loves Tiffany and would do anything to protect her, Tiffany overheard this and is touched by his words, and after Brian finally accepted Z to be his son in law, the wedding resumes. Tiffany and Z are officially wedded the next day and they became husband and wife. As the family checks out, Brian receives the bill, it was multiple-pages long for a normal bill and everyone remembers all the spending they did with Brian's card, Brian faints in disbelief by the bill and falls on the floor, Madea and Joe flee the lobby to avoid Brian's wrath, and everyone else are trying to wake Brian up.
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