The movie has a Christian agenda, which is fine with me, if only it had been applied in a believable way. (1) is impossible, because no judge is going to let a wife abandoned by an adulterer after 18 years walk away without a penny, but never mind. Without the interruptions by Grandma Madea, the movie would be about Helen as a shattered woman who (1) tells the judge Charles can keep all his assets, because she doesn't want a penny (2) goes to work as a waitress and (3) is courted by the handsome Orlando, who is kind, understanding, sincere and knows how to listen to women. It is impossible that Grandma the harridan could have been produced by the same family that gave life to such gentle and civilized women as Myrtle and Helen. Hall.įor that matter, Helen has a mother as well as a grandmother, and her mother, Myrtle, is played with taste and sympathy by Cecily Tyson. Did he approve as Grandma took a chainsaw to his movie? Did he see Kimberley Elise in "Beloved" and "Woman, Thou Art Loosed" and realize what she was capable of in a Grandma-free movie? I can imagine this movie working perfectly well with Grandma played as a sympathetic human being, perhaps by Irma P. Did nobody realize that Grandma Madea comes from Planet X, would seem loud at the Johnson Family Picnic, is playing by different rules than anyone else in the cast, and fatally sabotages Kimberly Elise's valiant attempt to create a character we can care about? What's with this bizarre grandmother? She's like Moms Mabley at a church social. Madea at one point invades Charles' mansion, tells his mistress she is a ho (which is correct) and destroys all the furniture in his living room with a chainsaw she is able to find and employ within seconds. This person is not remotely plausible her dialogue is so offensively vulgar that it's impossible to believe that the intelligent, sweet, soft-spoken Helen doesn't seem to notice. Grandma Madea, who is built along the lines of a linebacker, is a tall, lantern-jawed, smooth-skinned, balloon-breasted gargoyle with a bad wig, who likes to wave a loaded gun and shoot test rounds into the ceiling. Helen weepingly flees to the house of her grandmother, and that's when everything goes spectacularly wrong. Luckily for Helen, the U-Haul is driven by Orlando ( Shemar Moore, from "The Young and the Restless"), who is handsome and kind and everything Charles is not. That's how she finds out Charles is dumping her and moving in with his mistress, Brenda ( Lisa Marcos). When Helen comes home the next day, her clothes are being loaded into a U-Haul. Their marriage seems ideal, but he cheats on her, and assaults her with verbal brutality. She lives with her husband Charles ( Steve Harris) in a house big enough to be the suburban headquarters of an insurance company. Kimberly Elise stars as Helen, wife of Atlanta's attorney of the year. There's a good movie buried beneath the bad one.
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