Redundant and unnecessary.

Just perfect...

best movie i've ever seen.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

If you're looking for full on Tyler Perry comedy, don't watch this one. Every time I watch this movie, I laugh and I cry. I've known women who've been cheated on, and it changed them from sweet and happy, to vindictive people who trust no one. I've known families torn apart by drugs and alcohol, and the pain I see in Diary of A Mad Black Woman is dead on. Yep, I know older ladies who carry a pistol in their handbags. Maybe that's why I am so attached to this film. I know these people. DOAMBW is rough on the emotions. The pain is palpable, and we need Madea to break up the hard parts. It's like when you have sickness and death in the family, and you get punchy and silly. You have to laugh to keep from crying. The pretty people in this movie are really beautiful. Who could ever get tired of looking at Kimberly Elise and Shemar Moore? When I hear the voice-over of Kimberly Elise reading the diary entries, it's so realistic. It's the exact things you think when you are falling for someone and trying not. I've read a lot of negative reviews about this movie, but I just don't see the problems. It isn't a documentary after all.

Diary of a Mad Black Woman is a great movie. I love that it has a lot of emotion. There are tears, laughs and resentment. The way that Tyler Perry set this movie up, he is applying a spiritual message and a lesson. It's a very strong and helpful message for women. I love the fact that a man wrote this story to help women with bad relationships and giving advice on what to do with them. I love the fact that Perry makes a real situation funny and still teaches a lesson. Helen McCarter (Kimberly Elise) plays the role of a distraught wife after her husband breaks her news that he had an affair. Perry couldn't have chosen anyone else to play this role better than her. From the tears, to laughs, to the facial expressions, she made them look and seem so real. My favorite character was Joe (Tyler Perry) who is Helen's uncle also Madea's (Tyler Perry) brother. He always had something slick to say to everything, and everything he said was either degrading to someone or he was just being stupid.I realli enjoyed this movie. Two thumbs up.

I didn't know what to expect. I'd heard mixed things, mostly from non-film types.This movie was really bad. I couldn't get past the first 20 minutes.The writing was dreadful. I want to say the acting was dreadful - but I don't think the actors had much to work with.TP's movies have attained some financial success. I think this can be attributed to a devoted black audience. Which I completely understand. There aren't many writer/directors in the world, and if one happens to be black, and makes movies about black life in America, he's going to attract a black audience.But overall, Tyler Perry is just not a very talented writer. But he may have future as an actor.

Nothing seemed to match in this film. I found myself in the realistic world of a successful couple and then suddenly a madcap, lame version of the ghetto. I found a female lead that was charming and smart, then suddenly she shows no social savvy or wit at all.Continuity is important to a film experience and I was constantly reminded I was watching a film in this one. Sets didn't match, worlds didn't match , and the logic of characters didn't match in the slightest.Two good examples: A woman finds her man with another woman with the inference that he is cheating. She goes home to find her closet and things packed up with a whole new wardrobe to replace it. And she thinks that this is her husband's way of giving a gift to her? No one with any amount of street smarts would believe that all their packed belongings bodes well.The other is simply a character low on money shooting a hole in a the ceiling for no good reason other than getting someone's attention in a moment of banality. I'm guessing Mr. Perry was looking for a laugh, but simply shooting a gun isn't funny. And no transvestite grandma in any walk of life would ever do that.