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10/30/09
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:23
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Though somewhat formulaic and predictable, Perry succeeds in mixing broad humor with sincere sentimentality to palatable effect.
Theatrical Release:Sep 11, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $51,697,449
Synopsis: When Madea, America’s favorite pistol-packing grandma, catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers... [More]
Starring: Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Adam Rodriguez, Brian White
Director: Tyler Perry
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Reviews for Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself
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.
10/02/09
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10/01/09
I Can Do Bad All By Myself may not be a model of tonal restraint, but it's well acted, it's funny, the music is phenomenal, and the religion is sincere.
09/21/09
Perry sticks to his storytelling principles, doing what he does so well.
09/18/09
Tyler Perry's latest crackles with electricity, thanks to heaps of boffo acting talent, high-octane musical interludes, and the most easy-to-root-for electrocution scene since Ernest Goes to Jail.
09/17/09
Lurches around for nearly two hours before concluding that all its heroine needed all along was a good (and hunky) man and Jesus.
09/16/09
Taraji P. Henson is the Mary J. Blige of film.
09/16/09
Narratively and grammatically dim redemption pap.
09/16/09
Tyler Perry does good all by himself, but having Henson on board helps.
09/15/09
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.
09/15/09
Top CriticIt 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.
09/15/09
Top CriticThough no one would cite him for the cinematic qualities of his visually pedestrian films, Perry is a master conductor of emotions.
09/14/09
Top CriticMr. Perry has his moviemaking machine running smoothly, which is to say somewhat predictably.
09/14/09
Top CriticUnashamedly fond of mixing messages of vengeance and piety, Perry nevertheless manages to reduce the tonal whiplash, so that this newest entry glides a little more easily from broad laughs to teary anguish and finally sweeping uplift.
09/14/09
Top CriticIt’s the best Tyler Perry movie to date -- the writer/director/actor/mogul’s most confident and competent mixture of uplifting black middle-class melodrama and low-down comedy.
09/14/09
Top CriticAfter a summer of phony, pasty rom-coms, do this: See a movie where old-fashioned notions of love, faith, strength, and the possibility of redemption are taken seriously.
09/14/09
Top CriticSometimes-gritty dramedy has some moving moments.
09/14/09
If Perry continues to surround himself with great talent like this, maybe it'll force him to step up his own game and make a movie that departs from his increasingly tired formula.
09/13/09
The songs and Henson's sensitive portrayal of the woman who has neglected herself and her home keep us involved.
09/13/09
Latest News for Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself
September 13, 2009:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Tyler Perry Does Good All By Himself
This weekend Tyler Perry ruled the charts once again as fans flocked to North American multiplexes for his latest film I Can Do Bad All By Myself which gave the filmmaker his... More...
September 10, 2009:
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July 21, 2009:
Official Trailer with with Tyler Perry, Taraji P. Henson, Mary J. Blige, Hope Olaide Wilson, Brian White, Kwesi Nii-Lante Boakye, Frederick Siglar, Gladys Knight, Marvin Winans, and Adam Rodriguez 
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