It may surprise some of you to know that there’s another Tyler Perry show on the market called Meet The Browns. And the folks out at Lions Gate sent over a copy of Meet The Browns Season One for us to tackle for you. The question of course will be whether or not this particular batch of Tyler Perry will be any better than his previous incarnations, which have largely been disastrous.

Meet The Browns takes us out to Brown Meadows, a retirement home made from what used to be a private residence, but was converted into a retirement home on the strength of a promise a man named Leroy Brown made his deceased father. But what Mr. Brown is going to discover is that running a retirement home is going to be a whole lot more complex than he first imagined. But since his son is a doctor, and his son’s wife is a nurse, he’s got the beginnings of a big undertaking. But can he survive it all with his sanity–and his house–intact?

I don’t believe I’m about to type this, but seriously, folks…Meet The Browns is unquestionably the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen from Tyler Perry. Ever. EV-ER. I laughed. This alone should tell you something, considering I’ve referred to Perry’s previous work as everything from “godawful” “piles of melodrama” to “(a) putrefacted carcass“. But clearly, this is where all the funny that Tyler Perry could muster has gone. This is his entire stock of funny, all thrown into one package. All the jokes that should have been in For Colored Girls or anything Madea-related or that spectacular exercise in masochism known as House of Payne have all migrated to Meet The Browns.

And while everyone in the story is doing a fine job of keeping up, the clear winner of Meet The Browns has to be Mr. Brown himself, David Mann. This guy is one of the best comic actors I’ve seen in the longest time. He does a terrific job intermingling physical humor with a kind of raw idiocy intermingled with a gentle, goodhearted nature that blends so beautifully that makes this a hilarious piece of work.

I can’t believe I’m saying half this stuff about anything that came out of Tyler Perry’s endless maw of horror and misery, but Meet The Browns Season One is an untrammeled delight that proves that even a broken clock is right twice a day.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives the endless laugh riot that is Meet The Browns Season One an eight out of ten. It’s packed to the gills with laughs, and I”m amazed to realize this is as good as it is. Bravo, Tyler Perry…you managed to get one right. For a change.

Once again Tyler Perry’s career has reared its ugly head and taken a run at my lineup–the folks out at Lions Gate sent over a copy of For Colored Girls for me to review, and thus, I did. Would it be the infuriating, self-righteous, high dollar schtick of Why Did I Get Married Too? Would it be the low-budget confused rambling mess that was Madea’s Big Happy Family The Play? Or would the Broken Clock Principle give me, for once, a good movie from Tyler Perry?

For Colored Girls, based on something called a choreopoem with the terrifyingly inscrutable name of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf” (and that typo is actually part of the choreopoem) follows a group of people who do various things in a bid to learn more about themselves, and have various things happen to them over the course of several hours.

Or something like that. And maybe it’ll only feel like several hours. Frankly, this thing is about as transparent and accessible as the metal face of a ten-pound sledgehammer. By about the end of the first half hour I was convinced that this was clearly translated from the original Klingon. I’ve seen Japanese horror movies that made more sense than this massive lump of incoherent babbling drivel.

The second half hour, sadly, started to make more sense, in that this was a movie that would resolutely refuse to make sense. This is not a movie with a constant narrative–this is little more than a series of events with precious little to interconnect them. This isn’t a movie–this is an exercise in egomania. And this may be the shame of the age.

Why? Because there are fantastic actresses in this. Phylicia Rashad is a genius. Whoopi Goldberg has been doing amazing things for years. Even relative newcomers like Macy Gray and Anika Noni Rose do a nice job of things. But they’re in the middle of this morass of a plot that is going nowhere and doing so at incredibly slow speeds.

And worse yet, the cliches are sufficiently thick that even Lifetime wouldn’t touch this slop–the women are enlightened paragons of various virtues, the ambitious, the powerful, the gentle, the caring; the men, meanwhile, are the paragons of vices, manipulators, rapists, thieves, violent drunkards, existing only to feed off of the women in any of dozens of ways.

It’s preposterous, it’s incomprehensible, it’s pretentious, it’s utter, utter garbage. It takes brilliant actresses and wastes them on third-rate material so laden with cliches and ultimately nonsensical that it is beyond redemption.

It is a waste of plastic for which Tyler Perry has earned one more reason to apologize to those unfortunate enough to view his work.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives For Colored Girls a two out of ten, acknowledging the only thing about this that is any good, the wonderful actresses involved, and spitting on the putrefacted carcass that is the rest of this movie.

Courtesy of In Contention via Movieonline we get to see For Colored Girls one-sheet. The character posters that Steve posted were spectacular visuals and now the one-sheet is so simple.  Tyler Perry’s brings us a star-studded film with Janet Jackson, Loretta Devine, Kimberly Elise, Thandie Newton, Phylicia Rashad, Anika Noni Rose, Kerry Washington, Whoopi Goldberg and Macy Gray.

The movie is a poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world.

The Colored Girls opens wide November 5, 2010.

No, seriously–eight.  As in “one more than seven” eight. And I’ve got three of them right here for you.

They’re character posters, focused around the various cast members involved with For Colored Girls, including Thandie Newton, Janet Jackson and Whoopi Goldberg.

For Colored Girls, based on the Obie-winning play, follows a series of twenty women as they discuss their experiences. It’s described as “a poetic exploration of what is to be of color and a female in this world”.

And not surprisingly, the movie is brought to us by no less than Tyler Perry, so chances are you’ve either already decided to see it the second you heard about it or realized you’d never be interested in seeing it, pretty much the second you heard about it.

For Colored Girls hits theaters November 5th.

Lionsgate will release Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls on November 5, 2010.

According to Variety, the move would position the film for year-end awards consideration, is meant to bolster the company’s remaining 2010.

Colored Girls is based on the play by Ntozake Shange and stars some pretty talented actresses: Thandie Newton, Kerry Washington, Janet Jackson and Whoopi Goldberg.