Tyler Perry's Abomination

To begin our Tyler Perry film study. The real title is Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a marriage counsellor. As all Tyler Perry movies it is titled with his name because as we all know he's actually Oprah dressed as a man. The title also has a sub-title 'Confessions of a Marriage Counsellor'. In the entire movie there is no point at which the marriage counsellor confesses, so this already confused me a little.

Enough with the title. The movie opens up with a white couple arguing in therapy, the marriage counsellor guesses that the wife is having an affair and decides to tell her a story. This is where I get confused with the term confession, the counsellor is not confessing to her client, she tells her the story as though it happened to her sister. Also all of this is extremely unethical!
It's like Tyler Perry sits on his toilet with his laptop, with copies of 'Psychologies', 'Essence' (so that he can really get into the black female mind), 'Cosmopolitan' (so that he can write from the perspective of morally corrupt white women). After skim reading those he types in the words 'hot', 'black' and 'men' into google so that he gets satisfactory males leads. Then types in 'black' and 'woman' so that he can get any type of black female lead. In this case the lead, Judith is played by emaciated Jurnee Smollet-Bell, who was cute as a kid in Eve's Bayou but is still trying to pull those precocious kid faces in her twenties. Brandy Norwood is in it as a mysterious, troubled woman signified by the fact that she covers up with a hoodie and wears 'lesbian boots'.

The only thing that got me through this movie was the fact that my friend had snuck brandy into the theatre and laced my slushie with it (the drink not the actress). This movie was so boring that when the time came for the naive Judith to try sniffing a line of cocaine with the rich playboy Harley I literally scramed at the screen 'Don't do it!!!!'. Not because I was worried for the protagonist but because once that line was sniffed I knew that would add on another 3 hours to the length of the movie.

All the characters are wooden and just downright stupid! The protagonist, Judith has a master's degree in psychology and is working as an in-house thereapist at a glorified brothel. Questons that sprung to mind were: Why doesn't she work at a state facility in the first place, which is what she's doing at the end of the film? Why does an educated girl allow herself to have unsafe sex and become a drug addict? Why is the entire climax of this movie based on a one in a million coincidence? Why does Vanessa Williams have a terrible French accent in it.

I'd have to say the one good thing about this movie was Kim Kardashian. She was absolutely sublime with a great onscreen presence and brilliant comic timing. She lit up the screen as Ava and her beauty captivated the audience...NOT! You know a movie is really really bad when the best thing about it happens to be Kim Kardashian.