How sad is this?

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

For those of us woman who have been hurt recently or in our pasts. Whether it be physically, mentally or emotionally, Or all three. Whether You know someone who has been or is going through any of these situations. This movie should be watched! It reminds us not only of the pain we can go through but of how strong we are as individuals and as a whole. Sometimes all it takes is seeing it to make you realize how it is and that it shouldn't be this way! And then NOT letting it continue!This is a amazing movie it shows the pain and struggles that women have been through and it shows how they survived it, by survived i mean that they do not give into the want/need of committing suicide. This is a very powerful movie. In my opinion it was so powerful because these things, that happen in this movie, happen everyday everywhere in this world. This movie raises awareness of these issues but it also shows that there is life beyond this intense pain we may or even know someone who has experienced.

This is the screen adaptation of Ntozake Shange's 1975 play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf". This title alone is heavy with imagery and poetry enough to anticipate what follows it. The film is more marketably titled "For Colored Girls" - which takes from it any arching, celestial beauty or hollowing pain."For Colored Girls" was adapted, directed, and produced by Tyler Perry. It's surprising that a man would be chosen for such an acclaimed and iconic piece of African American literature and black feminism. Initially Shange had qualms about Perry taking on the film: "I worried about his characterizations of women as plastic", referring to Perry comic works with his Madea character. Later she said Perry had done a fine job, but that the film wasn't quite "finished"."For Colored Girls (Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf)" is just that. It's not meant for everyone; it is an open and heartfelt letter, and you will know if it's for you. "For Colored Girls" shows the scars and salves, the bruises and bonds that can tear a woman down and then bring her back up again. This movie is not easy to watch, and it's not meant to be; life isn't easy, it doesn't pull punches, but neither is it completely without hope. This movie deals with abuse, infidelity, rape, abandonment, love, sisterhood, strength, and beauty.The colors of this movie are infinite. Each of the main characters has her own bow of the rainbow. The artistic palate full with some outstanding dramatic performances, dancing, opera, poetry, and heart.This movie is for the colored girls who have felt joy and despair, who have seen both sides of the moon. It was made for you, and I hope you get the chance to see it.Aloha

I have to start this review by saying that it is with great reluctance I had to mark this film as disappointing. I was drawn in to the story of these women because I really wanted to see how they survived the traumas they were dealing with and the anger they were facing. I really wanted to find something in these characters to like, but other than a few of them, I really didn't find them likable enough to sympathize with their plights.The film has an amazing cast of black actresses, many of whom I have had the delight of seeing live on Broadway. I think it was well intended to make a film version of this, but unfortunately, the movie doesn't come off as pro-women as much as man-hating and angry. Not all of the women presented here are negative characters; The abused mother beaten up by her veteran boyfriend I definitely sympathized with, as with the younger daughter of a religious fanatic whose older sibling is a sex addict. Totally lovable is the nurse who opens her own clinic. But along with the sexually addicted sister, there is her fanatical mother, the nasty CEO, as well as practically every man in this movie.I really wanted to find something in these men to identify with as well to make them seem more real, but it seems that every man here has the hidden intention to hurt their women, whether they were addicts, rapists, bi-sexual, or just flaky. For the CEO's husband's secret to totally come out of left field (on the down low) I was glad I was watching this on DVD so I could rewind it to make sure I heard what I just heard. There's three sides to every story, they say, and here, you only get one side.As for the performances, everybody is outstanding. The acting is not where the problem lies. The hearts of the women played by Phyllicia Rashad and Loretta Devine are bigger than all of Central Park, and in one key moment, Rashad has one single line that reveals more about herself than most of the characters do in the rest of the movie. Devine's character is the epitome of "Earth Mother", and if you're like me, you just want to give her a huge hug. As for Whoopie Goldberg, this has to be the strangest character she has ever played, but she does so brilliantly. The problem with the younger actors (save Anika Noni Rose, whom I think is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful and talented young actresses on stage and screen today) is that their parts are not layered enough to show any humanity under the anger. "Love Story" taught us that "Love means never having to say you're sorry." This film tries to tell us that "Too many sorry's mean a ton of sorrows."

I loved the show when I saw it on Broadway decades ago.I wondered why I hadn't seen the movie around much, and rented it on TV.I found a riveting series of great interlocking stories, moving and powerful performances, and updated perspectives on race and gender (we get behind some of the men's problems too, without excuses for the inexcusable).The job most commonly presented for women in movies these days is "princess." No kidding. This movie sweeps us up while showing women who do the work we really do, and the complex choices and roles we face in our relationships and our lives.I highly recommend it!