
After a lot of time spent watching parody movies, it’s difficult for me to say that there’s anything more pathetic than a movie that is a parody of something worse than its targets. Vampires Suck made all other Twilight movies that were created before this one and after this one feel like a piece of art. An American Carol made me feel that there is at least a bit of helpful content in the most mediocre films by Michael Moore. And let’s just say, The 41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It was not up to the par of Judd Apatow’s recent standards, they couldn’t even hold a candle to handle stick for his recent movies.
Not Another Church Movie is something that defies all logic. It has lower standards and sinks towards waters that no other film has dared to tread, and thanks to Tyler Perry, this film goes ahead with one of the plots of his storyline. And for the Perry devotees who still have a base of faith somewhere in them, it makes Temptation look like Daddy’s Little Girls. As if the “not another” portion of the title has not already given the message away, this is a late, very badly presented, and senseless spoof of Perry films. People who crafted this somehow were ignorant that the bastardization of Perry’s repeating attempts to inject faith into cheap humor and moving drama has absolutely no equals – and these are Perry’s own movies coming out in the world.
You won’t believe this. Television talk show host Hoprah Windfall (Luc Ashley) is packing up her television empire and is in search of her dynasty. God (Oh yes, Jamie Foxx! Like, who else?) shoots out an angel feather to entrepreneur and filmmaker Taylor Pherry, played by Kevin Daniels, whose ‘P’ is silent. Raising ants is nothing for this man who is married to Maude (played Daniels again, how nice) the senior cursing matriarch and sister to a sex-maniac brother called Moe(Wayne Stamps). This is a dysfunctional family (which makes the search for a full-time host on The Daily Show appear like a walk in the park) comprised of drama so deep, that it includes a wife trying to divorce a cheating husband, an obnoxiously dumb mover, a love-finding attorney, and a widow who is more concerned about herself than her deceased father’s will.
Johnny Mack, the writer, and director, does not care about the development of the story and is definitely not going to try and use some of the subplots to elicit any comedy thus, we are to take the chaos of the film as regarding Perry’s numerous side comments as a joke. The one most in bad taste, and that is also the most shameless, concerns Foxx’s Joker who, among other things, spends time with a group of people at a roundtable in heaven, including the odd chance to meet the devil (Mickey Rourke). Anyway, Mack writes about the idea that initially seems so original and interesting, and instead puts in many other, even more hackneyed ideas. Another character MaDude, a clear and noisy hulking figure, ends up being impotent as expected thanks to her character being a stereotype of a stereotype. Have you ever wasted time photocopying a photocopy? It always comes out worse.
By all accounts, one of the highlights of Not Another Church Movie is how incredibly dull and uneventful it can be, very much in the same league as the lowest of Perry’s filmography. Not Another Church Movie is a mockery of movies that have come a decade too late and in a way that seems rude since Perry’s recent films are all but forgotten as they quickly get buried under weeds by their quiet launch across platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Quite bizarrely earning a release in the theaters while managing an earning of more than half a million dollars through box office sales, Not Another Church Movie is fittingly set up for a similarly misfortunate ending as it literally earns nothing in every way due to the nature of the mockery.
Featuring Kevin Daniels, Jamie Foxx, Mickey Rourke, Vivica A. Fox, Lamorne Morris, Tisha Campbell, Jasmine Guy, Kyla Pratt, Wayne Stamps, T’Shaun Barrett, Lydia Styslinger, James Michael Cummings. Producer Johnny Mack.
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