for colored girls movie

for colored girls movie -- My admiration for Tyler Perry's phenomenal and influential showmanship is undimmed, but facts are facts: The craft of filmmaking is not his strong suit.

Perry's movies tend to lurch from scene to scene; the visual composition is characteristically sloppy; and the storytelling, shaped by Perry's early successes with road-show theatrical productions, is maddeningly choppy and artificially inflated by overheated dialogue.

And yet the approach works for the man -- at least when he's making a Tyler Perry Movie. "For Colored Girls," however, is definitely not a Tyler Perry Movie, at least not by origin: It's the first film adaptation of "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf." A blazing choreo-poetic-theatrical creation by the New Jersey-born poet Ntozake Shange, "Colored Girls" rocked the American stage in the 1970s.

Nearly four decades later, Perry has taken Shange's feminist word-and-movement portraits of disenfranchised African-American women and turned those howls into... a maddeningly choppy mess of a Tyler Perry movie. Here, women (crossing paths in a faux run-down, stage-set Harlem apartment building) are in trouble or wronged or hurting, yet by God they're strong. 

Created By Berita Terhangat