Fresh
Contrived, sentimental, tonally bipolar, and as predictable as clockwork, this latest from chitlin' circuit impressario Tyler Perry is just a fat slab of ecstatic entertainment.
Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader
I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Hope is closer than you think.
2009 · 1h 53m · PG-13
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Tyler Perry
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I Can Do Bad All By Myself
Overview
When Madea catches teenage Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids.
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Top critics, in their words
Rotten
Narratively and grammatically dim redemption pap.
Nick Schager, Time Out New York
Rotten
If the Atlanta impresario is just bored with cranking out two adaptations a year of his earlier stage work, the audience is getting restless, too.
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice
Fresh
It is easy to knock the Tyler Perry formula, but you have to give the man credit: He knows how to create meaty roles for women.
Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic
Fresh
Though no one would cite him for the cinematic qualities of his visually pedestrian films, Perry is a master conductor of emotions.
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer
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