The first of Tyler Perry's hit stage shows, from whence the infamous Madea sprung, has been turned into an adequate but rather lifeless film. The plot concerns a young woman who sings at a local club. Her mother is sick, she is trying to raise her sisters kids (the sister died from drugs) and she's sleeping with a married man. How her life is affected by the man who comes to fix her home and the appearance of Madea (the kids tried to rob Madea's house) is the film. This is a rather by the numbers feel good film. Perry has been churning this sort of thing out for almost 2 decades and the whole affair has the feeling of being done by rote. Its clear that Perry has been losing interest in the cash cow of turning his old plays into new movies, but one wishes that he would find something to invigorate his considerable talent rather than allow it to make a film that just sort of lays there. While infinitely better than his last film Madea Goes to Jail (a film filled with so much contempt for Madea that he apparently didn't shave for some scenes) this film only springs to life during the films musical numbers. While not the worst thing that Perry has done (Jail probably is) this is not really a film thats worth paying full movie prices to see. I'd wait for cable.
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