The Stream: The characters are so maddeningly stupid that you’ll end the movie bald from pulling your hair out.

The Big Screen: The opening scene is bonkers!

The Final Bill: Same Tyler Perry material with diminishing returns.

– Trip Fontaine
Director: Tyler Perry
Writers: Tyler Perry
Stars: Meagan Good, Cory Hardrict, Joseph Lee Anderson, Taylor Polidore Williams, Shannon Wallace, Richard Lawson, Debbi Morgan
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Rating: R for language, some sexual content and violence
Runtime: 1 hour 54 minutes
Production Companies: Amazon MGM Studios, Tyler Perry Studios
Platform: Prime Video on July 11, 2024
Notable Trailers: My Spy: The Eternal City

What’s up, Streamers! It seems like only yesterday we were “blessed” with Tyler Perry’s Mea Culpa, and here he is again churning out another TP-joint, Divorce in the Black. Tyler Perry is very prolific because he takes very little time producing his movies and television shows, but he should slow down, take some time to think and generate some new ideas. Anyway, in Divorce in the Black, Ava (Meagan Good) is a woman who stands by her man no matter what. She was taught by her parents to stick it out in her marriage, and she plans to do just that. She’s married to Dallas (Cory Hardrict), a no-good so-and-so from a no-good family in the backwoods. The marriage is terrible despite Ava’s best efforts, and Dallas, not realizing how good he has it, wants a divorce. What will Ava do? You know what she will do as Tyler Perry hijinks ensue.

I feel like I’m wasting my time writing this review. If you have seen most any Tyler Perry movie, then you have seen this movie. Just plug in new actors with different names. Rinse and repeat. There is no reason for this movie to exist. Perry has already hammered home the moral of this movie in other more successful films. Like his other movies, every character is dumb. The acting is iffy at best. The plot makes no sense because the actors do stupid things. Tyler Perry Studios is impressive, but everything that he makes looks cheap. Ugh!

On a side note, the opening scene is bonkers. It will make you want to keep watching, but the rest of the movie is a letdown.

Ultimately, Tyler Perry’s Divorce in the Black is more of the same Tyler Perry melodrama masquerading as cinema. Now, there are some funny moments, but I assume they are not intentional. Otherwise, nothing that happens in this movie makes any sense and it devolves into the same ridiculousness that always happens in these movies. Overall, it’s a pretty formulaic Tyler Perry movie – I don’t know why this was made. A single popped kernel for a streaming under duress.