Good Deeds

Spike Lee and Tyler Perry disagree on what is appropriate entertainment for Blacks. Lee thinks Tyler's shows are derogatory. Tyler however does take from Spike and sticks with most of the same actors in his movies.

Tyler is starting to venture into new territory with this flick. There is no Madea, and God is not the answer to all problems. In Good Deeds Tyler plays businessman Wesley Deeds, and is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.

Throughout the movie you get a feeling that Perry is trying to be Sidney Poitier with the way he speaks and his mannerisms but it does not work. Lindsey is played by Thandie Newton who is now the angry Black woman in movies. In fact she starred in The Pursuit of Happyness as Will Smith angry wife and now in Good Deeds she is homeless similar to the Will Smith character.

Good Deeds does not work because there is no chemistry between Perry and Newton. I give Perry props however for moving away from Madea.

Verdict:

There is nothing groundbreaking like Tyler's best picture to date For Colored Girls. I still can't understand why it was not nominated for any Oscars.