A new poster and trailer were just released for Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself.  The poster is a reference (a reference noted in the studio’s press release, mind you) to Straw Dogs, a 1971 Sam Peckinpah film in which a guy takes brutal revenge on the townies who gang raped his woman.  Which makes total sense* when you consider that I Can Do Bad All by Myself looks like a hackneyed redemption story starring a sassy old black woman in drag.

The strategy in the trailer, meanwhile, seems to be throwing a bunch of incongruous elements of a movie together – single mother struggalin ta make ends meet, down-on-his-luck handyman, sass-throwin old lady who’s really a man – then bringing them all together with an earnest piano track and references to Jesus.  If Tyler Perry had directed Ace Ventura, Ace would be wrestling the dolphin, then there’d be that dramatic cymbal crash thingie, and next thing you know he’d be teaching the kids to pray while talking out of his butt cheeks.  “Go ahead, children, ass Jesus a question.”   Tyler Perry movies are weirder than Norwegian porno.

*It doesn’t make sense

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Tyler Perry is a certified superstar.  His movies cost nothing to make, they all make ridiculous amounts of money, and he puts out like two a year.  Yet his success is virtually impossible to understand.  I see the trailers for his movies, and they look like Spanish soap operas translated to English.  Hopefully this new “motion poster” for I Can Do Bad All by Myself can help me understand the phenomenon.  You have to watch it via this link because I didn’t want a song autoplaying on my page.  Basically, it’s a flower that blooms and has the face of a woman on it, accompanied by a song with the lyrics, “OOHHHHHOOOOHHHYEAAAAHHHAAHHHAYEAAAHHHOOOHHHH….”

Can anyone tell me what the hell is going on with this?  It reminds me of a Christian t-shirt or bumper sticker, except the caption is in a different language.

Petit Update: Twitterer Hank1914 tweefed: “It’s about a woman blossoming into a new woman after escaping a physically abusive marriage with her daughter.”  Oh sure, spoil my fun with your intelligent analysis.

Tyler Perry’s movies always make an assload of cash, but one of the knocks on him is always that for someone whose films people clearly respond to, you just wish he’d put a little more care into each individual project instead of just pumping them out.  One that note, with Madea Goes to Jail currently in its third week of release, Lionsgate has already greenlit his next two projects.

First up, is “Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All By Myself,” followed by “Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too.” Perry will write, direct and star in both features. Taraji P. Henson, Oscar nominated for “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” also will star in “Bad,” which will begin principal photography on March 16 at the new Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta. “Bad” is scheduled for nationwide release on Sept. 11.  “Why Did I Get Married?” will begin filming this year for release on April 2, 2010. [THR]

Wow, he can sure churn these out, can’t he?  It’s almost as if all his movies were the same formulaic, poorly disguised sermon with interchangeable characters and situations or something.