“I Can Do Bad All By Myself”

“I Can Do Bad All By Myself” is yet another Tyler Perry play turned into a movie. It revolves around three orphans who end up breaking into the home of Mable Simmons, aka Madea (Tyler Perry), to look for food when she catches them and attacks them, not knowing they’re kids. They tell her that after their mother died they went to live with their grandmother who they haven’t seen in the past four days since she left for work. Wanting to help them, Madea takes them to their closest relative their aunt April (Taraji P. Henson), a women who frequently goes out drinking each night and is dating a married man. Despite her bad habits, she agrees to let the children stay with her until they can find their grandmother. While the kids are at April’s, their pastor sends over a foreigner named Sandino (Adam Rodriquez) to help fix her house and for a place to stay. Her boyfriend Randy (Brian J. White) does not like the fact that three kids and a grown man are staying at her house. He even tries to make various sexual advances towards the oldest girl, Jennifer, during her stay at the house. Soon April’s attitude begins to change with the kids around and with it, her lifestyle too.

This film, like all other Tyler Perry films, starts off with a main character, who either has a bad background or has lost family, struggling to find their meaning in the world and end up happier because of it. This movie like the rest also has a very comedic side as well, such as Madea and her brother Joe (also played by Tyler Perry) beating up a bunch of little kids. This movie by my standards is a good family movie which I would recommend seeing, but there are some scenes that aren’t appropriate for small children. Other than that I would say it a wonderful movie which I would personally give an eight out of ten. So please go see it, you might just learn something from it.