Is it a sin to wish Tyler Perrys movies were better?
By Stephanie Zacharek Mar. 21, 2008 | By now every critic knows that liking or not liking a Tyler Perry film is beside the point: Perry’s hugely successful comedy-dramas, which deal with the importance of maintaining strong family connections, of having faith in God, and of persevering in the face of life’s hardships, don’t need us to weigh their flaws or their virtues. (That must be why they’re not screened for critics in the first place.) Perry’s movies, like a force of nature, simply are. And while they are, of course, aimed at a black audience, there’s no reason white audiences couldn’t potentially enjoy them too: It’s simply that white audiences don’t bother to go. The absence of white ticket buyers doesn’t make a whit of difference at the box office: The last picture made by playwright turned filmmaker Perry, 2007’s “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married,” spent three weeks in the top 10, grossing almost $50 million in that period. In a movie culture where even big-budget blockbust
