
When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Randy, her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Colombian immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Mak... (Full plot summary below)
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When Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of Randy, her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with the kids. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Colombian immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement room. Making amends for his own troubled past, Sandino challenges April to open her heart. And April soon realizes she must make the biggest choice of her life: between her old ways with Randy and the new possibilities of family, faith ... and even true love.
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| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumIt's probably the impresario's best-made movie yet, his most joyful, and his most moving. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowThe songs and Henson's sensitive portrayal of the woman who has neglected herself and her home keep us involved. |
| Contra Costa TimesSandra VarnerOn that positive and melodious note, Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself does no harm. |
| BET.comClay CaneTaraji P. Henson is the Mary J. Blige of film. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrIt’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. |
| Chicago ReaderCliff DoerksenContrived, sentimental, tonally bipolar, and as predictable as clockwork. |
| Antagony & EcstasyTim BraytonTaraji P. Henson is absolutely staggering and wonderful... this, people, is what inspirational cinema is supposed to look like. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteTo keep empire building, Perry needs to step up his game. And his new film -- the almost-musical I Can Do Bad All By Myself -- ain't quite there. |
| Filmcritic.comBill GibronWhile Perry is still preaching to the already converted, I Can Do Bad All By Myself confirms that he's finally figured out how to turn said sermonizing into a far more mainstream experience. |
| NewsBlazeKam WilliamsA pleasant, if predictable morality play offering a litany of teachable moments certain to resonate with the Born Again demographic. |