Review of I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) by Dannielle A — 13 Jul 2010
Writer-director Tyler Perry has done it again with perhaps the best of his career. "I Can Do Bad All By Myself" has a title that just makes you cringe but it is a funny, heart-warming story.
The story begins when Madea catches three children robbing her home. She brings them to their aunt's house after giving them some dinner. Their aunt is an alcoholic nightclub singer who sleeps by day and parties at night. She is involved with a married man who pays all her bills and whose wife is pregnant again. The local church sends April a handyman to help fix her crumbling old house in return for room and board, the optimistic and caring Sandino in whom April later falls in love with.
It's hard to care about April or anyone else in I Can Do Bad All by Myself because for the first hour, nearly every character is unlikeable. Then April turns her life around with the help of Sandino and an eye-opening revelation that her boyfriend is worse than a creeper. She goes to church, gives her life to Jesus, and lives happily ever after.
The spiritual message in Tyler Perry's film is a little vauge. Probably because he doesn't want to offend people of different theologies but in so doing, he has left out an important part of the gospel. In any case, the movie does well, and even evoked a little tears during some of the singing parts.
This review of I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) was written by Dannielle A on 13 Jul 2010.
I Can Do Bad All By Myself has generally received positive reviews.
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