Film Review – The Single Moms Club

For his latest effort, writer/director/co-star Tyler Perry looks to pander to his female audience in a more welcoming manner than last year’s “Temptation” could provide. Preying on insecurities concerning the challenges of single motherhood, Perry heads into his creative kitchen and whips up the same stale concoction of melodrama, comedy, and hysteria. The wine flows and the punchlines die in “The Single Moms Club,” and Perry can’t seem to fulfill the promise of the title. Instead of breezy jocularity and patient moralizing, the feature is a joyless to-do list of cliches, sold by actresses who appear confused by the material, unsure if they should treat the conflicts with a touch of realism or head off into space, hamming it up while the director takes a nap. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com