April (Taraji P. Henson) is a heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend Raymond (Brian White). Her stagnant life takes a sudden U-turn when her delinquent niece and nephews are caught stealing from Madea's (Tyler Perry) house and are brought to April to stay with her. April does not want anything to do with the kids and the water begins to boil as she begins to go head-to-head with her hot-tempered, sixteen year old niece Jennifer (Hope Olaide Wilson). Just when we think enough has happened in one day Sandino Ramirez (Adam Rodriguez), a handsome handy-man from Colombia looking for hard work to make a living, moves in with April. Sandino is not too welcome, but tries to challenge April to open her heart towards her niece and nephew, and others, as he makes amends to his own troubled past. April soon is faced with reality of making the biggest decision of her life: between her old ways with Raymond and the new possibilities of faith, family and even true love.In Tyler Perry's movies there is never just one theme. He always has to have an array of messages; however, the main theme in this film is shown in the saga between April and Sandino. In this movie the character April is one of those people that is not really expecting much out of life. She has not really given up on life, but is just content with where she is. She sings at a nightclub (something she loves to do) and she mooches off of her boyfriend in her apartment. Sandino Ramirez is a handy-man from Columbia and experienced a troubled childhood. He has come to America in search of a better life, and so the church asks April if she can allow him to stay with her in exchange for work around the house. While Sandino is lodging with April, he is a front seat witness to the neglect from April to her niece and nephews. April does not really know how to love and how to show affection towards her family, which is why she does not have kids of her own. She does not like kids; therefore, she does not do anything for them. She doesn't make them feel welcome; she barely makes room for them to sleep. And she does not really want Sandino to be there. And so when Sandino steps up, he begins to cross the boundaries as he decides to be "Iyanla Vanzandt," and to take matters into his own hands. Sandino tries to get April to wake up and to see that what she is doing to her family and that the way of life, and thinking, she's living is driving her family away from her. He tries to get her to open up her heart to her niece and nephews and to be more sensitive towards their needs. He even tries to get her to realize that this man that she has living with her, she does not even really love. So what is the message here? One cannot find love in un-lovable places. One cannot fill their inner vacancies with drugs, alcohol, sex or even an abusive relationship. And one, also, cannot go through life by themselves. A person cannot try to live life without the help, or love, of their family or friends. People with closed hearts push people away because they fear being hurt again. They lack trust in others because their trust has been stolen from someone else. Trust someone. Whether it is your neighbor, your best friend, the guy down the street or even God, trust somebody. Do not have a closed heart. People with closed hearts push important people away from them, thus, others not wanting to be around them. Their life will remain stagnant.This movie, just like all of Tyler Perry's movies, contains all of the qualities and characteristics that make his movies the success they are. It contains: love, comedy, dramatic irony, an intense climax, a Christian message, comic relief and legends! All of these are what makes me so excited when I hear about another Tyler Perry production in the making. His movies inspire people and speak to nations. He certainly is a legend, himself, and will forevermore be recorded in history as such.

This film wasn't the best movie ever and I don't understand why people hate Tyler Perry his films aren't bad and they aren't the worst. I watched this with a group of friends mostly black and we enjoyed the parts with Madea were hilarious. And the drama was okay too. The acting was fine I like Taraj P Henson she was good in this movie. The only thing that bugged me was the sets most of them looked really fake but that was it. Anyways this film wasn't bad and the rating shouldn't be low at 2.8 it should be 4 or 5 stars. The acting was was good and had a fine cast. I recommend renting it or getting it on DVD. If you like tyler perry and his movies then you'll like I can do bad all by myself

I think that this movie gives some really good insights into the dynamics of some dysfunctional families, especially when they don't have much money and there's sexual and child abuse involved. That often makes it hard for people to watch: whether they've never been a victim and don't believe that it really happens like that or whether they have been a victim and remember how it feels. I thought this was a really great story. The music was great and fit into the story line really well. And the vocalists, the musicians, etc. were excellent. (I'd love to have some info on the choir at the church.) The Medea scenes add a little comic relief although they don't really add all that much to the story.All of those involved deserved the awards that they got and more. We just got a new TV with direct TV and netflix and my brother in law and I are looking up every single Tyler Perry movie I can find. T. P. tells it like it all too often is. And, btw, I love Medea. She's a hoot. Hope Tyler Perry keeps making movies - comedies and movies like this that aren't really comic but have a bit of comic relief.

there is nothing to be said, after I have watched this movie all what I was thinking about is how any one lose some minutes of his life on this .anything else you got to do is better than this one , there is nothing good about this movie but the songs maybe seem to be good .after all ,the title is true it can do bad all till makes you feel bad .I can't even write more about it . but my review must be 10 lines of text . so I should write some more about it , OK here we go lets say that I didn't laugh even once at the whole movie . no one can laugh on this very old jokes like ( My Grandma Rose used to tell us to pray about things like this) (Yeah but she only told us to pray. She never told us how) I don't Know even if it was a joke or not !!