Tyler Perry's Diary of a Mad Black Woman Critic Reviews

A 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.Read the full review

While 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.Read the full review

An ungainly hodgepodge of vaudeville-style comedy, turgid soap-operatics, and joyful epiphanies of gospel-flavored uplift.Read the full review

Harris and particularly Elise give over-the-top performances that bring Diary to the edge of soap opera.Read the full review

In an awkward split-personality way, it works some of the time.Read the full review

Blows to the head are delivered with more subtlety than the message of Diary of a Mad Black Woman.Read the full review

Half inspired and half eye-rollingly terrible.Read the full review

These characters, which Perry worked into the narrative from other stage performances, may have been entertaining in those venues, but they undermine the film.Read the full review

So oblivious to genre that it occupies its own special stylistic niche, if you can imagine such a thing as a romantic revenge farce.Read the full review