REVIEW: Lack of Chemistry Can't Derail Tyler Perry's Harmless Good Deeds

Tyler Perry doesn't don drag or delve into religion in his latest, Good Deeds — the film isn't part of the prolific entertainment giant's Madea franchise (next stop Madea's Witness Protection, slated for later in 2012), but rather of his less broad line of feel-good dramedies like Daddy's Little Girls and Why Did I Get Married? But despite the restrained tone, it's no less savvy an entertainment, one that Perry wrote, directed and stars in as San Francisco businessman Wesley Deeds, the wealthy, perfect son of a good family, head of the company his father created. Wesley's life changes when he meets Lindsey (Thandie Newton), a beleaguered single mom who works as the night janitor in his office building.
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Tyler Perry's Good Deeds Trailer: The Price of Milk and Other First World Problems

Say what you will about the films of Tyler Perry, at least he has an ethos. Good messages (well, the overt ones about living reasonable lives and personal responsibility) are what he's about, and he doesn't need to wear Madea's signature muumuu in order to beat us over the head with them. For the latest dose of the master's philosophizing I present the trailer for next February's Tyler Perry's Good Deeds -- or, as we call it around these parts, The Perry.

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