Tyler Perry is to moviemaking what Meryl Streep is to the twerk team, what Kim Kardashian is to operatic singing, or what Beyoncé is to monster truck racing. Yes, he is a shrewd businessman, but he is certainly not a great filmmaker. However, you do have to give the man credit: He knows how to touch all the demographic bases. The central characters of his latest film include women from all manner of ethnic backgrounds, spanning the economic spectrum from lower to middle to upper class. The only things left out of The Single Moms Club are genuine humour and emotion. The film follows five single mothers whose children all attend an exclusive Atlanta prep school. They are a disparate lot indeed, sharing only the problems attendant to raising a child without a man. Theres Jan (Wendi McLendon-Covey), the snotty publishing executive, Lytia (Cocoa Brown), the sassy waitress from the hood, Hillary (Amy Smart), a mother of three in the midst of a nasty divorce from her lawyer husband, beautiful Esperanza (Zulay Henao), who doesn't want her daughter or her manipulative ex to know about her new boyfriend, and May (Nia Long), an overworked journalist and aspiring author. As is the usual with Tyler Perry films, all the female characters are the victims of ridiculous melodrama, broad humour that falls flat, and flirtatious encounters featuring lame double-entendres that would barely make teenagers snicker. There's undoubtedly a good film to be made about the trials and tribulations of single motherhood. This isn't it. Who would you consider to be the worst female movie character of 2014? Let us know in the comment section below.
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