Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Gabrielle Wilchie Directed by Tyler Perry, Daddy's Little girls is one of my favorite films of all time. Tyler Perry, known for the infamous character "Madea", creates a love story between two people who come from two totally different backgrounds. Idris Elba plays the dad, Monty. Tasha Smith plays Jennifer, the ex-wife. Gabrielle Union plays the lawyer, Julia. Monty is struggling mechanic and single father of three girls from a poor minority neighborhood. Monty is faced with a big problem. His ex-wife, who is a drug dealer, has been awarded custody of his three daughters. Monty seeks help from a beautiful and educated lawyer with an ivy-league background, Julia. Monty and Julia met when Monty briefly took the job as a chauffeur.This movie is a comedy and drama and is generally PG-13. This one-hundred-minute film was released in theaters on February 14, 2007 an available on DVD on June 12, 2007. In my opinion, the cast was very well selected. Gabrielle Union is a very successful African American actress who has been in over thirty-three films. She is my favorite female actress. Idris Elba has been in forty films and twenty-three for Ms. Tasha Smith.I love the stories that are set up within the movie. Monty portrays as a good man who makes only enough to make ends meet. It gets harder though when he has to fight to gain full custody of his daughters before their mother, Jennifer, takes them. Jennifer is the girlfriend of Jo, the biggest drug dealer in the area. Jo has the entire community afraid of him, so, naturally, Monty doesn't want his daughters growing up around this. The subplot enters when Monty hires a lawyer, Julia, whose life is the exact opposite of Monty's. She works in corporate America and is very well off.During the time, Julia is down on her luck with her love life. After spending time with Monty, Julia falls in love with her not so typical type.By the sound of all of that, you'd think that this movie is a bit complicated, but it is not. The movie offers so many different real life messages. The film sheds light on many situations such as rape; inappropriate incarceration; child abuse (both sexual and physical); class-ism; the fact that good people can be stuck living in terrible communities; forgiveness; gang-drug activity; revenge; and more. These are some real life issues that are very much overlooked.I think all African-American mothers and father should see this movie. The message is powerful and there is a lesson to be learned. Even people that don't have children should watch this film. You never know what kind of situations you will encounter when you become a parent because life is not predictable, and you always have to stay strong for the people who are depending on you.

nessie1 right at the very beginning when checking the oil dipstick fixed the car.This was horrible. It was filled to the brim with distressing stereotypes and equally poor dialogue. And it was made that much worse because I watched this after seeing Idris Elba in Luther and as Nelson Mandela - both of which were great. I know that there are some people in the black community who are not good parents or role models, and maybe I am out of line having an opinion because I am not black, but this movie went so over the top with that theme that it was embarrassing. The only redeeming part of this whole movie was Anthony Hamilton's twenty second contribution. Not even Tasha Smith and Idris Elba could save this movie.

sddavis63 The biggest problem with this is that it's so totally predictable almost from the very beginning. Is there any surprise that comes up at any point in the entire movie? About the only thing thrown in that threw me off for a few minutes was the rape conviction against Monty (Idris Elba) which ended up being explained away anyway. The basis of the story, of course, was Monty's frantic need to get custody of his 3 daughters back from his ex-wife, who's hooked up with a drug dealer and seems to be into some pretty bad stuff herself. That leads to his budding relationship with Julia (Gabrielle Union) - a high powered lawyer who had employed Monty as her driver for a while, and finds herself strangely drawn to him both personally and professionally, as she ends up representing him. There's a lot of extraneous material thrown in - the community's combination of outrage and impotence against local drug dealers, the wrong side of the tracks romance between Monty and Julia, the situation the kids find themselves in when they're taken away from Monty and handed over to their mother. Sometimes it seemed as if there was a bit too much extraneous material to be honest.What I liked about the movie was the decision to make the girls' father the good guy, and the fact that the black community living in Monty's neighbourhood was shown to be diverse and mostly good, honest folk with a few losers thrown in. I also liked the performances from Elba and Union - they worked well together - and from the 3 McClain girls (I assume sisters themselves) who played Monty's children. They were as far removed from irritating child actors as you could imagine. They were quite good.Unfortunately, what I didn't like about this was the predictability of the whole thing. There was virtually no dramatic tension throughout, because you knew without any doubt how pretty much everything was going to turn out. That really drags a movie down in my opinion. (4/10)

aevans-693-464414 Daddy's Little Girls may not have been the most successful movie but I thought it was very sweet. It was about a blue collar father, Monty, who lost his three daughters to their neglectful mother. He looks to find help from a successful and lonely lawyer who at first doesn't really want to help him. The two quickly become close and fall in love. The story seems to me to be very predictable but I did love it. I felt that everyone that was in the movies acted very well I believe that Tyler Perry really brought it out of them.I particularly only watched it because it was a movie made by successful director, producer, and writer Tyler Perry. He usually makes very funny films which have morals and lessons learned. I felt that everyone that was in the movies acted very well I believe that Tyler Perry really brought it out of them. This film followed Perry's recipe for success like his other films. Perry always injects his main characters with a love of God and the church while the antagonists in the story are always trying to hurt and bring them down. I thought that the movie was really cute but should have been better especially being a Tyler Perry film.