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2009
PG-13
Lionsgate Films
1 h 53 m

2009
PG-13
Lionsgate Films
1 h 53 m

Summary 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 the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfrien...

Directed By: Tyler Perry

Written By: Tyler Perry

2009
PG-13
Lionsgate Films
1 h 53 m

2009
PG-13
Lionsgate Films
1 h 53 m

I Can Do Bad All by Myself

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews

55

User Score Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings

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Summary 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 the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfrien...

Directed By: Tyler Perry

Written By: Tyler Perry

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews

38% Positive
5 Reviews

38% Mixed
5 Reviews

23% Negative
3 Reviews

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Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews

38% Positive
5 Reviews

38% Mixed
5 Reviews

23% Negative
3 Reviews

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Entertainment Weekly

It's probably the impresario's best-made movie yet, his most joyful, and his most moving.

By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW

It’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.

By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW

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User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings

53% Positive
8 Ratings

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47% Negative
7 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Mixed or Average Based on 15 User Ratings

53% Positive
8 Ratings

0% Mixed
0 Ratings

47% Negative
7 Ratings

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With Bad, Perry is savvy enough to let riveting musical numbers by ringers like Gladys Knight and Mary J. Blige--along with Henson’s deeply empathetic performance--carry the film’s feverish emotions more than his characteristically ham-fisted screenplay.

By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Part musical, part love story, part family melodrama, part inspirational treacle, Tyler Perry's latest movie, I Can Do Bad All by Myself is something of an unholy mess. Alternately stupefying and entertaining, the film does benefit from a strong cast.

New York Daily News

Perry also spices things up with two of his most reliable fallbacks: music, and Madea. Having packed his cast with singers, he allows them all a moment to shine, with songs that deliver his patented lessons (trust in yourself, trust in others, trust in God).

By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW

Contrived, sentimental, tonally bipolar, and as predictable as clockwork.

The laughs, meanwhile, are delivered by cross-dressing Perry’s sassy grandma Madea, whose wild threats of violence to children and adults alike are the only things that sporadically lighten up this narratively and grammatically dim redemption pap.

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Details

Production Company The Tyler Perry Company

Release Date Sep 11, 2009

Duration 1 h 53 m

Rating PG-13

Genres

Tagline Hope is closer than you think.

Website http://www.icandobadmovie.com/

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Awards

Image Awards (NAACP)

• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

Black Reel Awards

• 2 Nominations

BET Awards

• 1 Nomination

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