TYLER PERRY’S TEMPTATION
PG-13
111 Minutes
Director: Tyler Perry
Writer: Tyler Perry
Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Vanessa Williams, Brandy Norwood
In Loving Memory of Roger Ebert (1942 –2013)Cast
Jurnee Smollett-Bell…Judith
Lance Gross…Brice
Kim Kardashian…Ava
Vanessa Williams…Janice
Robbie Jones…Harley
Brandy Norwood…Melinda
I don’t see too many Tyler Perry movies. Two, at last count. But this time, I experienced something unusual. I found myself in a packed theater, surrounded by white people who paid to see this movie. And they were laughing hysterically in random, inexplicable intervals.
Thirty minutes into this film, I thought this was the best Tyler Perry movie ever made. I suppose it was, technically speaking.
Brice and Judith are a boring, young couple. Brice is a lowly pharmacist and Judith works as a matchmaker for rich guys. And their marriage is in a bit of a rut.
She’s A Fine Girl, What A Good Wife She Would Be
Brice hires Melinda (Brandy) to work at his pharmacy. More on her later.
Brice, her husband, misses her birthday for the second year in a row. All was forgiven after she received some flowers at work. But wait a minute. Those flowers weren’t from her husband, they were from Harley.
Harley is one of Judith’s clients. Being married, Judy put up a good fight. Nonetheless, he was persistent, and pursued her relentlessly. You know something will happen between these people. I don’t know how. It all depends on how many weapons this gentleman has in his arsenal of seduction
Harley is a darker, non-golfing version of Tiger Woods. With as much passion as Tyrese and Tiger Woods put together. And he’s a billionaire.
Ahhhh Shit!
You could tell Judith had mixed feelings. She wanted to cheat on her husband, but she didn’t want to feel guilty about it.
I love the part where Harley kicked the shit out of Judith’s mom. He was very nonchalant about the incident. Sure, he’s a sociopath, and an irrational one at that. But it’s because his mother, literally, abandoned him in a crack house as an infant.
3 Letters Took Him To His Final Resting Place
Brice finds out Melinda, his employee, got AIDS from the same guy…oh, I’m sorry, HIV.
Judith, that two-timing whore got HIV. Serves her right, philandering and fornicating with that handsome devil.
There are many issues of plausibility in this movie. As a billionaire with HIV; word would get out pretty fast. Do you think Magic ‘Johnson’ goes on AIDS rampages, infecting women, left and right?
Saving The Best For Last (This Reference Works Because Vanessa Williams Is In This Movie)
Tyler Perry did something extraordinary, he made something derivative of his own screenplay. Which in itself was derivative. Derivative to the third power: D3 like the MIGHTY DUCKS. This man deserves a standing ovation.
Final Verdict: 14 out of 100
Sidenote: I couldn’t find an appropriate spot to place a Brandy-DUI joke: sincerest apologies.
