The Reel Rejects - Tyler Perry's DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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Starting point is 00:01:55 Aaron, um, it resolves in this. Yep. Holy shit. I would just watch this movie off that alone. Let's do it. Reject Nation. He's not a porn, man. He's a mechanic.

Starting point is 00:02:15 Not porn. He owns it. He's a business owner. He's officially rich. That was great. That was awesome. I love that one. Me too.

Starting point is 00:02:27 I had a really fun time with that one. Damn. First Tyler Perry movie to kind of get me in the tears at one point. That was nice, man. That was great. I really like that a lot. Oh, why did I get married? I want to watch this, but not yet.

Starting point is 00:02:40 Oh, man. Like, I go to, like, I go to every one of these totally blind. So, like, what is this movie about every single time? That's fun. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we just watched Daddy's Little Girls, the Tyler Perry film starring Idris Elba Gabrielle Union and the city of Atlanta

Starting point is 00:03:01 That's right Aaron how you feeling man How you feeling? I'm feeling good That was a really Good movie That was better than I thought it was going to be

Starting point is 00:03:13 All of the movies that we've watched together That are in Talipari For me I've been getting better Better each one So I'm happy to say that this stays With that trend of The film's getting stronger Yeah

Starting point is 00:03:24 I think that has a lot of stuff about, you know, what it means to be a black man during this time, what it means to be man in general, what it means to, you know, be someone who has to hold a lot of restraint in the face of difficult circumstances, coupled with, you know, these tiny bit closer in between the center of your mouth, right there, right there, right there. Yeah, yeah. But, yeah, also, I know that there's this element of classism, but within the black community of, of, This woman being someone who grew up in areas where maybe she didn't see a lot of faces that look like her, and that affected both her perception of other black people, but also it affected her when it comes to finding potential prospects and her limiting views of what she perceives is capable because of those perceptions and environments that she found herself kind of not by choice or even maybe later in her life by choice in the middle of. and watching those two realities come ahead. And I like the fact that we get to see a black man come to a happy ending with his three kids and get the girl and get the business owner. It's like, I don't know, it's like a reformative success story.

Starting point is 00:04:40 And it's the dream. And I'm happy we get to see something like that in a movie like this. Because I feel like that's not necessarily a movie we see a lot today, especially ending with the kind of happy tone that we did. Netflix there's normally like this undertone of sadness or or bleakness there but yeah I really enjoy this one Greg how'd you feel I thought it was really good man that was really good it's refreshing seeing a story um about the single father life custody battle and having to rise to the I think the cliche scenario especially for a black person in a movie is I think they call it out in this movie right like the

Starting point is 00:05:17 cliche that the black guy does not their racist kids you know and to do a story like this where right off the jump you see that nuance i was i had a feeling i would like it just from that one bit of nuance there that he's he's yes he doesn't have full custody of his kids before any of the chaos happens he doesn't have full custody of his kids but he clearly loves them and does what he can to spend time with them it's just the circumstances of financials of why he can't be there for them fully right now but when he can be there he cares to spend quality time with them yeah um i was like i like this i appreciated that a lot and that's kind of the driving force of this story is now that he's in the position where he has to he has no choice but to take full

Starting point is 00:06:01 custody of his kids and does whatever he and he has to fight for it uh there's there's there's like a beauty to it touches on similar themes from the other tyler perry i like he i think the playground that tyler perry plays in it's kind of similar playground you know relationships love stories um black culture and uh in atlanta yeah for sure um you know a community uh within church and the and the power of belief you know the you know like the and we're seeing some like lawyerism stuff to to the the the systematic injustices and the inequalities uh that can present itself right down to like what he's accused of yeah and what he's convicted of you know you know I think the courts have been

Starting point is 00:06:48 in every Tyler Perry movie maybe except for the second one. And they aren't all of them, aren't they? Yeah, I want to say. Yeah, they always go to the court. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But because it's not a Medea movie, it stays pretty grounded

Starting point is 00:07:03 in a reality, right? Because Medea usually has like that heightened, oftentimes she's like the best part of those movies, but there's usually like such a heightened quality, especially with the other characters that do come in. And so I actually liked a little bit more of this realistic approach. Like the only part that seemed a little bit over the top was the depiction of like ginkster thug Joe.

Starting point is 00:07:28 There are parts about it that felt a little out of touch in terms of like how it, it felt a little bit more animated than perhaps I, I don't know. It was kind of one note. It might have been the world he was painted in too because it kind of just seemed like it was just Joe and like a couple of his guys. but everywhere else was like, why is he here? I don't like him. I didn't feel like the, he was an habit,

Starting point is 00:07:51 like he was part of like a bigger problem, you know. And it was just like, Joe's the one problem here and he just keeps selling drugs. And so I think that part of him made him feel like a little bit of caricatury. Because yeah,

Starting point is 00:08:05 he was a little bit of one note. But it was effective though. Like when plot points went down with Joe, I would be lying of a, I wasn't like moved. I wasn't like angry, you know, those. So he served his purpose plot point wise, you know? I feel like there could have been maybe a couple more scenes with him,

Starting point is 00:08:27 both how he affects the community and his relationship. Yeah. With the daughters and whatnot. I will say for the most part, what this movie was like an hour and a half. It wouldn't buy pretty well. I feel like I never felt like it was dragging at any point. I feel like it did a good job of conveying the conflict and the perspective of what Gabriel Union was from.

Starting point is 00:08:45 And then his struggles both on the financial front, but also the frustration with the mom and the system and not being able to have his daughters. I feel like Idrisalba was really strong in this movie. Also, Gabrielle Union of herself was incredible. But yeah. These were the best, I think these were like the best performances we've seen.

Starting point is 00:09:04 For sure. From the Tyler Perry movies, yeah. Yeah. And I don't know if this one was a play, but I feel like this one felt the least like a play out of all the ones we watched. It felt like the most like a just a movie. Yeah, that's true.

Starting point is 00:09:16 And yeah, and I enjoyed it for that. And I like the messages of community. And it's funny because I just watched like this thing recently about a semi-similar situation about this guy terrorizing this town, the law not being able to do anything about it. So the citizens took it into their own hands. Okay. Which is a real life story. It actually happened.

Starting point is 00:09:35 And the FBI got involved and they're like, no one's going to testify. All right. We're fine. We're going to leave. So, yeah, I think that part. was was believable for me the fact that you know stuff like this does happen is rooted in reality maybe it didn't bother the joseph didn't bother me as much because they said it was just this small community and like a feeling a community antagonist rather than like someone who's like

Starting point is 00:09:57 affecting all of Atlanta feels a little bit more um i don't know contained but i guess i would have wanted to see the i mean i appreciate the immediate effect it shows in the family dynamics but part part of me like not that we honestly like we don't really need it I wanted to get a bigger idea of like the the parts that he is affecting you know they didn't show how he affects the community he was here about seeing all the crack addicts shit you know like all that you just kind of hear about it on the side yeah so that would definitely added some more credence or you know power to the community being there outside of the one scene but yeah I said I thought it was overall really really enjoyable

Starting point is 00:10:39 and even for how much drama is in it the comedy for the most part works really well on this a lot of this was really funny I would call this a dromedy I think it's a romantic dromedy because the romance is like the real drive is like such a big drive in the movie like there's a lot of love in the

Starting point is 00:10:56 film from fatherhood and such but the real like drive is the relationship with Gabrielle Union and Idris Elba like their their chemistry is off the charts in this film. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:11:09 You know, it feels telegraphed at first. Like you're hearing. You see Gabrielle. I didn't know she was in it like you. And then you see her name at the beginning. It's like, okay, he's going to go pick up someone.

Starting point is 00:11:17 Must be her, who's the rich lawyer. I thought it was going to be she falls in love with her driver kind of story as it was going. I was like, oh, it's taking like different directions that I would have anticipated it to go. Like, okay,

Starting point is 00:11:27 yeah, she's going to represent. All right, okay. We can kind of see that coming. But even the way the events like unfold, um, because of how I feel, even though there are parts that like the

Starting point is 00:11:40 really it's only one part that I felt like got there a tad rushed was the her falling in love with him part I'm like oh I didn't I didn't think I thought she was like really into him and was like catching a lot of feels but I didn't know she was like in love with him yeah I feel like that's what like median

Starting point is 00:11:56 like the 90s and early 2000s really did like they go on two dates and then by the end of the movie they're like I love you I fucking trope of movies in general and maybe there was a bit more time passage than maybe we were real we were aware of like that was one part that I was thinking about when they're at the aquarium like maybe some time more more time past them we actually thought of um because not she's like at the

Starting point is 00:12:14 aquarium like just hanging out and going on a date you know yeah like playing mommy at the at that moment but um gabriel union's performance and and their chemistry I think like besides plot points being a little bit feeling a little bit quick I think he's I think Tyler Perry's writing and the actors know the character so well that though the way he like calls for route on stuff like like I know you like me you know like here's what I think's going through your head right now like I'm like okay and this this makes it easier to to buy into it because they're not having that's what's helping it they're not having cliche dialogue with each other because it sounds very rooted in who the voices of these two characters really are that I could see lesser writing feeling

Starting point is 00:12:57 like they're just caricatures or stereotypes of like you know I'm the corporate lady who doesn't know how to find love, you know, but even she felt more nuanced in her depictions. Like, she felt like a full three-dimensional human being the entire time. She wasn't this one note closed off in charge lawyer. She felt like she had a whole personality. She felt like she had a sense of humor. There was like range and dynamics and every part of her performance. And same thing with Idris Elba. So when they interact, it felt like watching two genuine performance. and people interact with each other and it helps elevate so much because for this this type of movie you need actors who can bring that elevation and who have chemistry and their chemistry

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Starting point is 00:16:53 instantly after playing your first $5 light up. Prize fits, run your game. No, yeah, and I think one last thing I'll say is that I think that the fact that we were able to get a nuanced performance from Gabrielle Union and she was yeah we we see her background and they give us little bits about the stuff that she was going through in her history and I feel like it's enough for us to color in the lines about the maybe her larger experience that the fact

Starting point is 00:17:22 that she was with a guy for six years he left on the cusp of him getting married the fact her her dad was this big wig part of the I think he owned the firm was it like was it his firm did they say? Yeah, yeah, it was her dad's firm and then she became partner and they retired. Yeah, yeah, it was the dad's firm. Like, okay, it kind of gives you like, okay, she had like maybe a bit of a sheltered life and she grew up around people that she didn't really see people that look like her. And when she did finally, you could find the thing that she looked for or thought she that she wanted that it turned out to not be what it initially had presented itself. So yeah, that would make somebody very, very jaded and closed off. And then you just

Starting point is 00:18:01 having by the nature of your your job seeing a lot of the the darker sides i suppose of of community or or the space you wouldn't have it rather than the the full nuance of it like i'm sure she never even consider like oh things like the jazz club existed prior to because she's there's a very sheltered life all she does this work so her i imagine her entirety or a large majority large majority of her perception of of black people in the black community is the what she sees inside of the courtroom which would give her a very black and white view and I like having the experience of someone like Monty adds color to her world because her friends perceive him in that same black and white sort of dichotomy that um that she does and it's it's

Starting point is 00:18:48 not exactly fair because it's not not exactly it's not fair at all because um yeah yeah yeah Yeah, I'm good. Sorry, full of a little dizzy for a second. Nope. You're right? Yeah, I'm good. We're on the clock now, so suck it up. No, you're right.

Starting point is 00:19:06 Yeah, it's, yeah, I think that this thought does an interesting relationship dynamic. Yeah. You want to get some water? I'm okay. I'm good. You want to get a hamburger? Hamburger? I'm good.

Starting point is 00:19:21 I'm good. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with that assessment. And I think they did, I mean, I think the writing hints that you get a clearer depiction of Monty throughout. This is really his movie, right? More than hers, even though she's top billing. With her character, though, they give enough hints without monologuing about it. The only monologue she really gets about her past is to do with the guy she fell in love with the four who was a married man.

Starting point is 00:19:51 So you have that illusion of like attachment issues and then talks. love like they allude that oh my dad always wanted a boy so she feels so like the impression i got like i feel like gabriel union actually got enough tidbits of backstory to work with to really develop something more of like her dad always wanted a boy it's just like a passing line and then she feels i imagine that she probably felt like she had to um really prove herself it seems like she's been trying to like prove herself to her dad this entire time you know and like trying to become lawyer and everything and really step up like becoming partner at only 28 years old like doing everything she can for us as she falls for like shitheads and stuff so then when she finally find

Starting point is 00:20:32 someone good it's like very much the opposite of what she's gone for before um you know like the last guy she which is on a date with a guy in this movie and she's really attracted to him she's like thank you jesus and it ends up being another married guy yeah suit you know so there's a I feel like there's some backstory that she maybe like you can kind of fill in some of the blanks that maybe the dad was a cheater or something. Or, you know, there's something there that he kind of fill in. Or just there was an emotional neglectful relationship. So I like how we don't monologue a lot about her past,

Starting point is 00:21:07 but you can kind of pick it up throughout the whole time of what her trajectory on. Well, sad, man, I'm not a lawyer. There are parts where I was going, I feel like she'd have that. Like the information about why he was arrested. Like, I feel like you would have been able to that. And you knew that that was a thing.

Starting point is 00:21:22 And the fact that he's falsely convicted, I'm like, I would have looked into that tomb after hearing everything. And even though she was like, I don't want nothing to do with you Monty. I'm like, I feel like even her character,

Starting point is 00:21:35 as a good of a lawyer, she isn't obsessed as she is with the situation that she would have been someone to like look into it to find out what happened. And then what maybe would have concluded, oh, he was falsely confused, especially if the news, the news is saying he's falsely convicted.

Starting point is 00:21:52 right. So she probably could have found what have found that information? I was like, how does the news know that? How does the news know that? But she doesn't know that? I feel like she would have looked into it and found that. So there are, there's like plot points like that, but I get it. You need the the rousing moment where she see her

Starting point is 00:22:08 affected and she goes in there and the court time to save the day. Yes, I understand movie wise it's about the emotion and the swell of that. Sometimes the logic does interfere a little bit with just accepting the emotional journey of that. but it was also sad to see the

Starting point is 00:22:24 the thing that has happened both through the 60s and like shit too today of like you know him being falsely accused for a ball you know with him the career stuff happening and I would have liked to have seen more how because that was a crazy revelation

Starting point is 00:22:42 for that so happened but I would like to have seen more about how that experience affected him and his time was in prison for eight years And I think that they showed it in the ways where, like, affected him financially because he was limited in the career opportunities. And I feel like him just being a convict in general affected the way he would move and have to conduct himself because he knew the risks of the stakes of having going, potentially going back to jail because he had these daughters to raise. But just, I don't know. Maybe that's not the movie that they're trying to make. But yeah, I think I would have liked to have known more about that and got a more added, how that add more color and context to how he operates going.

Starting point is 00:23:22 forward yeah that's true i do like that he's not living his life defined by that he is not true he's not what i appreciate about his portrayal too is that while he's got a terrible past where a lot was robbed from him off of one night whole future and everything like they they have it with the the the the white dad of that girl being like uh your bald days are over you know um He's not someone who seems like he is in constant blame mode, or at least not putting that out there. No, like he's really trying to make the most of a situation.

Starting point is 00:24:03 I love the restraint of his performance in so many of the scenes where he knows he can't because of his past. He has to constantly withhold how he's feeling. So this build up to when he does attack Joe felt very believable. Like that whole leading up scene when he walks out of the apartment. and he's it's just him silent he hits like that post at one point bangs on the car you just see everything like as he's processing this every part of him that's always held back is now like coming to the surface but like how he also becomes a leader in the community in that way you know

Starting point is 00:24:37 by taking the charge yeah it was really i think he's a really strong performance and and uh and i think the kids are really good too the kids were very believable as children you know actor child actors it's really hard to come by good child actors and i thought they were really really good and i feel like in another tyler perry movie at least from the world that we have stepped into with tyler perry the mom might have felt a little too cartoony villain or like aggressively but i believed it based off the way the writing set her up of you know seeing like two different paths of what happened right the line about the hood changed you that's the world though the world it's not just the hood that's the world and seeing like the the split of like the path

Starting point is 00:25:23 interselba went down and the path the mom went down that I actually and the way the mom is weirdly trying to be a teacher she's not just like I think in some other Tyler Perry movies I feel like the pair might have just been like someone who just constantly puts the children down and hits them and shit is just like really abusive but I like the I think that's why I worked for me is because she's trying to instill like I'm trying to teach you how to survive on these streets. I'm trying to teach you how to get your own. I'm trying to teach you how to be a strong well like this is her definition of how to be a strong woman. Yeah. You know, um, so yeah, you know, like sometimes, sometimes Todd Perry's direction in terms of like camera and setup can

Starting point is 00:26:03 sometimes feel like heightened right in a way that you have to just sort of accept some of the cheese of certain things. But it never reached a point where it robbed me of a enjoying or buying into the scene or the experience you know i was never like pulled away from it like uh where some other times it's done that for me this one i was able to really just get sucked into and i i really i enjoyed the whole it's like it's weirdly fun it's a weirdly like it's actually a fun movie uh it's entertaining i would say yeah it's an entertaining movie as well as being like a good romantic tromity you know yeah no i wholeheartedly agree i think it was enjoyable top to bottom performances, the comedy, the

Starting point is 00:26:50 dynamic nature of the stuff that we were talking about. Yeah, I think this is genuinely one of the best Tyler Pair movies that have been out today. And I hope they continue to get better. If you guys like this and want us to watch more. But yeah, that's how I feel. I think that's dope. Yeah, that's dope, man. Dope stuff. Ladies and gentlemen, leave your thoughts down below what you thought of Daddy's Little Girls. I'm Greg.

Starting point is 00:27:15 That's Aaron. We're the only real rejects members. Don't get fooled by everyone else you see her.

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The Reel Rejects - Tyler Perry's DADDY'S LITTLE GIRLS (2007) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

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