I don't have any idea why so many people don't like his movies. After seeing how much of a success they are in the box office I don't understand how they can get so low after that. Well now I'm giving it my review and in a word the movie is great.

In this new installment of Tyler Perry's film making career we see how Madea meets these kids who breaks into her house and now must take them to their aunt April who is an alcoholic singer at a night club (I know, there's a problem with that alone). So when Madea takes these kids over to their aunts place things start changing. The pastor at the church in April's neighborhood sends an immigrant to live with her in exchange for fixing up her place. Thanks to all of these people who surround themselves around her, April starts to realize that there is more to life than sleeping and drinking. She might even realize that her life is worth living.

This is probably one Tyler Perry's best films. It has great music, nice comedy, and entertaining drama. Definitely a great film to watch anytime and anywhere.

I think that this movie gives some really good insights into the dynamics of some dysfunctional families, especially when they don't have much money and there's sexual and child abuse involved. That often makes it hard for people to watch: whether they've never been a victim and don't believe that it really happens like that or whether they have been a victim and remember how it feels. I thought this was a really great story. The music was great and fit into the story line really well. And the vocalists, the musicians, etc. were excellent. (I'd love to have some info on the choir at the church.) The Medea scenes add a little comic relief although they don't really add all that much to the story.

All of those involved deserved the awards that they got and more. We just got a new TV with direct TV and netflix and my brother in law and I are looking up every single Tyler Perry movie I can find. T. P. tells it like it all too often is. And, btw, I love Medea. She's a hoot. Hope Tyler Perry keeps making movies - comedies and movies like this that aren't really comic but have a bit of comic relief.

As entertaining as the latest Madea comedy is, writer & director Tyler Perry's seventh movie "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" (*** out of ****) doesn't generate half as much humor and heartache as earlier Madea entries. No, "I Can Do Bad" doesn't top "Madea Goes to Jail." First, not only does everybody's favorite pistol-packing grandmother Maybelle "Madea" Simmons not pack a pistol, but she also spends more time off screen. In other words, she doesn't break the law and end up either in court or jail. She qualifies more as a supporting character used for comic relief. Second, "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" boasts no surprises. Indeed, most of this sermonizing melodrama about acquiring redemption from Jesus focuses on the trials and tribulations of a liquor-swilling lounge warbler who finds her life suddenly turned topsy-turvy when her three orphaned niece and nephews as well as a Latino immigrant take up residence in her townhouse. No, despite its upbeat message, "I Can Do Bad" might not be entirely proper for Sunday night churchgoers, though there are several religious-themed songs. The theme of child abuse rears its ugly head about three-fourths of the way through this 113 minute epic while the heroine wallows in an adulterous affair with another man's wife. Usually, if you can figure out a movie before the characters figure out what is happening, the movie isn't as imaginative.

"I Can Do Bad" gets off on the right foot. Madea (Tyler Perry in a dual cross-dressing role) awakens to the noise of burglars rummaging around her house, but she cannot rouse Joe (Tyler Perry) to check out the disturbance. Madea catches Jennifer (Hope Olaide Wilson),Manny (Kwesi Boakye) and Byron (Freddy Siglar) in the act of stealing Joe's VCR so they can sell it for food. Madea and Joe sit this terrible threesome down at the table, feed them and try to pry out of them information about who is responsible for their welfare. Jennifer tries to act tough, but Madea acts tougher. "Honey," she informs the teenage girl, "I been to jail. I will shank you." Afterward, Madea grills the two younger brothers who confess that their guardian has been absent for several days. Eventually, Madea learns that they are related to April (Taraji P. Henson of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") who sings in a local nightclub. When Madea shows up at April's front door, the grouchy singer isn't happy to see them. Typically, April sleeps off her alcoholic binges until the late afternoon with another woman's husband Randy (Brian White of "12 Rounds") who cannot stand his own three munchkins and a forthcoming one, too. Basically, Randy somehow pays the bills for both households, but he hangs around April for obvious reasons.

Tanya (Mary J. Blige of "Prison Song"),who employs April to sing, breaks down and chides her about her selfishness and her alcoholism. April ignores Tanya and keeps on drinking. When matriarchal Madea comes banging on April's door with the children, April explains that they belong to her sister. April's sister died from crack abuse, and April's long-suffering mother now cares for the trio. Nobody knows where April's mom is until Pastor Brian (gospel star Marvin L. Winans of "Mama, I Want to Sing") and churchgoing songster Wilma (Gladys Knight of "Hollywood Homicide") investigate and visit April about 45 minutes into the plot with the tragic news. April's mother, it seems, climbed aboard a city bus to go to work and died from an aneurism in route. Everybody, including the bus driver, thought that she was sleeping.

Initially, April wants nothing to do with her niece and nephews, but Jennifer is caught shoplifting at a corner drugstore. Bryan, it seems, suffers from diabetes and Jennifer knows how to handle it. Of course, Randy is dead set against the kids moving in with April, but teenage Jennifer catches his gimlet eye. Meanwhile, a virile Columbian immigrant who works as a handyman, Sandino (Adam Rodriguez of CBS-TV's "C.S.I.: Miami"),shows up at Pastor Brian's Zion Liberty Baptist Church looking for work. Pastor Brian promises to pay him for some church repairs and then sends him over to work out his rent in April's house. April and Sandino don't get off on the right foot and Randy doesn't like him period. She allots space for Sandino in her basement. Meantime, April pawns her relatives off on Madea to repay her for their depredations in her house. Pastor Brian, Wilma, Tanya, and even Sandino go to work on the callous April. When she sees the life of sin that she has been living, the self-destructive singer converts and follows Madea's advice: "If you give some good things to people, good things come back to you--most of the time." The themes of juvenile delinquency, selfishness, self-sacrifice, and ego are hammered home through songs and sermons both that often belabor the point and rob it of any shred of subtlety. Henson really shines as the protagonist who sees the light and changes her behavior and Rodriguez emerges as her knight-in-shining armor. Brian White makes a strong impression as the cheating husband. Henson has one heavyweight dramatic scene where she confronts Randy in a bathtub and nearly electrocutes him "Goldfinger" style when she suspects that he made a pass at Jennifer. Nevertheless, Madea still trumps them all with her warped sense of humor. The best scene in "I Can Do Bad" has Madea teaching Jennifer about Jonah and the whale. "That's when Noah showed up, with his arch, the St. Louis arch."

It is a tribute to Perry's film-making skills and the charisma of his first-class cast that together they can make you sniffle, sob, and cry aloud at the drop of every cliché in "I Can Do Bad."