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• Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:46 AM

  Very, very bad

  I watched "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" with my wife one evening last year expecting to see a cookie-cutter movie about a woman done wrong. I have never heard of Tyler Perry and only had a vague notion that the movie even existed.

  Boy was I surprised...

  That was absolutlely the worse movie I have ever seen in my life. It was so bad, I think I might have suffered some long-term psychological damage from it.

  Usually I can find a nugget of something good from a bad movie or at least find some kind of ironic humor from a movie's badness. But not this flick.

  Maybe it's because I'm an African-American male and expect better from my people. Or maybe it's because I'm offended that people actually like this crappy movie and Perry gets rich over it. I don't know.

  There was absolutely no subtlety. The audience doesn't have to think about anything. Perry does it all for you. "Find forgiveness through Jesus!". We're not children, Mr. Perry. Allow us to come to our own conclusions.

  The characters where too perfectly drawn. The husband was absolutely evil. The wife was absolutelty perfect. The boyfriend was absolutely sexy, caring, patient, and Christian. In fact, the boyfriend was so perfect he declined an offer to sleep with the "Mad Black Woman". And Madea was just perfectly off the hook!!

  Perry wearing the fat, old lady suit didn't work. I spent a good chunk of the movie wondering why there was a dude in a fat, old lady suit. I didn't get it.

  The fart jokes with Cicely Tyson was too much for me. Why did he have to go there??? It's Cicely Tyson, not Cameron Diaz.

  Perry did an absolutely miserable job trying to blend genres. The movie was a badly done blend of "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" and "Big Momma's House" with a horrible slathering of Christian babble layered on top of it. Blending genres is hard to pull off and Perry is not up to the task.

  I guess black folks are desperate to see black faces on the screen and will take whatever's offered up.

  Stay far and away from anything with Tyler Perry's name on it.

  —tora3 Read tora3's other letters
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