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75A very curious and very entertaining mix, the Labradoodle of inspirational romantic-comedy-melodramas.
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67A bad movie so over-the-top that at moments it's almost good - or, at least, more arresting than it has any right to be.
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63While the jokes are obvious and the romance formulaic, a good-natured sensibility saves the film from being too hokey. The individual parts may not work, but the sum remains entertaining.
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50In an awkward split-personality way, it works some of the time.
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50Harris and particularly Elise give over-the-top performances that bring Diary to the edge of soap opera.
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50Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.
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50As preposterously awkward, naïve and contrived as this movie is, it's still a curious sort of pleasure to witness-especially the gospel singing scenes.
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50This is a movie that falls short only because it insists on grabbing for so much.
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50Diary rather sloppily blends melodrama and spiritual uplift with crass comedy, sometimes in the same scene.
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50The movie has a soul, and its good-natured charm may well win over the most cynical heart.
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50As lousy as it is, Diary of a Mad Black Woman is weirdly fascinating.
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50Half inspired and half eye-rollingly terrible.
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50An ungainly hodgepodge of vaudeville-style comedy, turgid soap-operatics, and joyful epiphanies of gospel-flavored uplift.
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50The stylistic discontinuities and pile-driver excesses can be off-putting for an outsider like me, but for fans this may well be part of the appeal.
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42By the film's end, you feel like you've spent two hours rapidly changing channels between a WB sitcom, the gospel-choir segments of the "Ladykillers" remake, an episode of "Law & Order" and a Mexican soap opera.
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40The film is never dull.
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40Rote melodrama.
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40These characters, which Perry worked into the narrative from other stage performances, may have been entertaining in those venues, but they undermine the film.
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40So oblivious to genre that it occupies its own special stylistic niche, if you can imagine such a thing as a romantic revenge farce.
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38The film may be bad-and mad-but it's not predictable.
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38An absolute mess with no coherent tone, story or point of view.
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30Veers back and forth between indigestibly syrupy romance and vulgar "ethnic" comedy, with healthy doses of Christian proselytizing thrown in for good measure.
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30Cruelty, church redemption, miraculous healings of limbs and junkie relatives – all have their moments onscreen.
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30Part female revenge flick, part Saturday Night Live skit, part courtroom drama, and part religious tent revival, this movie never congeals into anything worth watching.
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30Sure, I laughed. Yes, I cried. But mostly I just wanted to throw up.
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25The Grandma is not merely wrong for the movie, but fatal to it -- a writing and casting disaster... I've been reviewing movies for a long time, and I can't think of one that more dramatically shoots itself in the foot.
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25Plenty of mad moviegoers will put this in their diaries as one of the worst pictures in ages.
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25Downright awful.
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25Plays like an unwieldy mishmash of "Big Momma's House," "An Unmarried Woman" and "The Burning Bed," with lots of gospel music thrown in.
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20The whole three-ring circus winds up in a church for a redemptive finale, but by then, Diary has committed too many sins for even the most generous soul to offer salvation.
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Erica9This movie was the best it could have more funny parts though cant wait for the next one.