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Suppose you’ve ever questioned how Melissa McCarthy keeps husband Ben Falcone employed as a director despite the cinematic evidence. In that case, you have to marvel at how Hollywood has let Tyler Perry’s next notch in his filmography, Madea’s Destination Wedding, become a cultural touchstone and one of the most inexplicably profitable franchises in movie history.

The popularity of the Madea franchise cannot be explained, much like Adam Sandler’s comedy career of the 1990s. Now, with streaming and Perry’s stranglehold on the industry (as recent news reports threaten to tear down his entertainment empire), Perry is back with another chapter that is heavy on product placement, light on laughs, and short on the audience’s patience.

Netflix’s Madea’s Destination Wedding Review and Synopsis Cassi Davis, Tamela J. Mann, and Tyler Perry in Madea’s Destination Wedding (2025) | Image via Netflix Cassi Davis, Tamela J. Mann, and Tyler...

Every year, many Indians migrate to the US in search of the American Dream. Some of them, who were handsomely upper-middle-class in the country, make the leap to get the big moolah once they settle in the States. However, only some of them manage to sail through the current and become rich. In Christa Boarini’s “Curry Scent,” – which is based on Nisha Sabharwal’s book of the same name, we meet an Indian family that doesn’t.

Geetha (Indigo Sabharwal), who works at a local grocery store and lives with her family of 8 in a packed suburban home in Sarasota (Florida); one day decides that she would like to get married in order to save her family from the slumber of the poor class. The decision feels random, and the filmmaker does very little to establish it. Anyway, like us, her family also readily agrees to the decision and partakes in the groom hunt.