REFLECTION & REASON

Tyler Perry's latest movie, Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor is complete and utter foolishness. Yeah, I said it. Yes, coming from the woman who flew 800km to Chicago to see one of Tyler Perry's Madea plays live. Yes, coming from the woman who has had nothing but extreme praise and respect for this man, and the empire he has created for himself. Yes, I'm a Tyler Perry fan and email subscriber and devoted audience member...and yet I thought his latest movie Temptation (released on Friday) was a joke. Temptation is a movie about a Christian girl named Judith (remember Jurnee Smollett-Bell, little Michelle Tanner's friend on Full House?),   who marries her childhood sweetheart Brice (played by heart-throb Lance Gross), yet finds herself in her mid-twenties under appreciated by her husband, unsatisfied with her job, and ridiculed by her ever-hot co-worker Ava (Kim Kardashian) about her selection in clothing and shoes. We've seen this...

I mentioned it back in July 2009 after checking out a comedy show from Toronto's own Trixx , and again in November 2009 with the renaissance of Twitter humour with Affion Crockett, Nile Evans, Craig Wayans, Damian Dante Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Damon Wayans Jr., DeRay Davis , and a few others in their circle of funny men. I was laughing that year...a lot, thanks to them. Kevin Hart was on SNL this past weekend, the Wayans family were on Oprah and it reminded me that I MISS LAUGHTER! Good old-fashioned sitting in front of the TV and actually laughing out loud. Sometimes years go by and there's no one hot out there, no one doing anything overtly hilarious. And then every now and then there's a wave of comedic genius back in the air , and it's stand-up time again. This is one of those times. Who doesn't love comedy? It's a beautiful thing when it's done correctly . I remember the first time I laughed so hard until I cried and couldn't breathe......