When Eugene Levy unwitting money laundering turns him into a witness against the mob, the state knows he "can't go into one of our regular safe houses," because that wouldn't lead to side-splitting laughs. "What are you suggesting?" Tyler Perry (lawyer variant) asks, still playfully oblivious to his own film's miserable conceit.
"Well, if you happen to have a Southern home barely containing an enormous, masculine, incredibly-conspicuous grandmother who can scream, dance, and make awkward racial comments on both sides of the Mason-Dixon, that would be the perfect place. Perfectly hilarious!" That is not directly stated, but I guess it's implicit enough that it's not long before Levy and his family are silently absorbing the discomfort of a man in a muumuu greeting them with a "heller," and then a movie seemingly happens.
It's Tyler Perry's full Madea's Witness Protection trailer. Turn up your speakers at around the 1:21 mark, because I'm fairly certain Madea briefly, bizarrely turns into Tim Allen. Hallelujer.
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Wait, isn't Madea's Witness Protection about Eugene Levy going to the South, not Madea going to New York? Yes, confirms Tyler Perry's official synopsis, but you can shut your mouth, because someone down at Lionsgate just realized it might be funnier sold as sort of a cross-dressing take on The Smurfs or Crocodile Dundee, so now it's that for this first poster for the film. We can only pray this misleading ad will not endanger a future in which Tyler Perry's Madea Takes Manhattan. Hallelujer.
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"Ha-ha-HA! Look at me, baby! Madea's witness protection! Y'all ain't ready, honey! You ain't ready, dammit!" Adding one final flourish of maniacal laughter, so Madea introduces apparently-unprepared audiences to the fact that--exonerated of the prior crimes that incarcerated her, hallelujer--she is now in the business of witness protection. And the first client to be smuggled into hiding beneath Madea's latex girth? American Pie torchbearer Eugene Levy, who here plays a Bernie Madoff type keeping a low profile by pretending to be a caricature of a French immigrant living with the largest, loudest, most attention-getting grandmother the government could find. Why not?
In this first trailer for the film, Madea drinks all the liquor a stewardess will provide her, while Eugene Levy makes his eyes as wide as possible and occasionally nods. Meanwhile, in the background, the worst extra keeps ruining the scene by laughing at Madea's alcoholism, while a True Background Artist, who clearly has a good sense of his minor-but-entitled character, throws derisive sneers and condescending head nods at the enormous, ambiguously-aged drunkard interrupting his first class experience.
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Eugene Levy's promise to always show up as Eugene Levy whenever asked now extends into Tyler Perry's Madea franchise. The actor and masochistic American Pie torchbearer has signed on to star in Madea's Witness Protection, in which he'll play the timely role of an investment company embezzler placed under witness protection. As the remainder of the title implies, the witness protection agency relocates him in the Southern home of the huge, angry, distractingly-disguised physical manifestation of the 99%, Tyler Perry's Madea, and the two presumably have at it Madea-style. Denise Richards will play Levy's trophy wife, continuing the commentary on "The Man" she began with Undercover Brother; Romeo Miller (né Lil' Romeo) will play a local who believes Levy stole the church's savings and wants to take Levy-vengeance into his own hands.
Levy is, of course, no stranger to the "old Jewish guys just don't get big sassy black ladies" game. In 2003's Bringing Down the House, he played just such a part opposite Queen Latifah, and, famously, this happened:
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