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Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls

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Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls is an admirable attempt to translate the popular stage play’s message of black female pain and empowerment to the big screen. But is the “T.P.” treatment the best approach for this complex material?

If we could forget for a moment that Tyler Perry’s latest film is a less-than-stellar re-envisioning of Ntozake Shange’s highly lauded, Obie-award winning 1970s choreopoem, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, we might catch a glimpse of the brilliance that initially made Perry so successful. Though he’s made over 20 films, a filmmaker he is not — but oh, I bet the man could pen an engaging play.

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November 8, 2010 - Posted by cocoa chanel | celebrities, movies | choreopoem, For Colored Girls, Kerry Washington, Kimberly Elise, Loretta Devine, Ntozake Shange, Phylicia Rashad, Tyler Perry, Whoopi Goldberg