Why Did I Get Married Too? (2010)

To save my life, I don't understand why Tyler Perry is held in such high regard both by audiences and by professional actors. He takes people who have spent their whole careers building portfolios of quality work and convinces them to spout the drivel he writes. Why?! This is proof positive of the dearth of work for Black actors. If they had any other choice, there is no way these people would sign on for this. This movie was so poorly written and the characters so poorly developed that it became a chore to watch. Particularly irritating was Angela who was obnoxious from the beginning to end. She kept making a fool of herself and everybody just laughed her silly behavior off as a character quirk instead of the pathology she really exhibited. I think she and Marcus were supposed to be comic relief. They weren't. And I still don't know what was the problem with Janet Jackson's character. I STILL don't know. The way Gavin's character was treated is both baffling and inexcusable. No way should Tyler Perry should have been allowed to make another movie after this drivel.

This film is one of the worst I've seen. The four female characters are hideous - spoiled, whining, loud mouthed, overbearing, jealous, precious. In real life I can't imagine people like these four being tolerated.The plot is poor, the execution slow and tortured. It takes an age for the movie to gain any impetus. The point of the film, I imagine, is to examine the lives of couples who are married. It would certainly put off anybody contemplating union.The male characters act like puppets, afraid to hurt the feelings of their counterparts. They appear to be unable to exert their own will.Avoid the film if you come across it. A waste of nearly two hours with an ending which is totally incredible.

A few months after I saw this movie on Netflix, I still have some mixed feelings about this Tyler Perry film that was the first I saw in its entirety. I mean, I did like the parts about that woman still having some grudge against her abusive ex-husband who's only trying to redeem himself. And there was some amusements of that constantly jealous woman concerning her sportscaster husband though it did threaten to wear thin. And that brief scene of Louis Gossett, Jr. and Cicely Tyson on the beach when they shared their journey as husband and wife were worthy of the time. But after that with the Janet Jackson character suddenly unraveling after deciding to split from her husband seemed to be writer Perry's way of providing some kind of conflict to make for a more exciting drama but only made things seem more contrived than needed. And I can't believe that the person who cameoed at the end actually agreed to do it! Bottom line, Why Did I Get Married Too? was a very mixed bag of an intro to Mr. Perry's work for me but at least he wasn't playing Medea again so that's one positive.

I had doubts about watching the prequel to this movie to begin with ("Why Did I Get Married?"). It's rating upon this site is quite low, and the opinions of my peers were not very positive either. However, after viewing and being very moved by Perry's "For Colored Girls", I wanted to sample more of his artistry anyhow. Though I was apprehensive of the first movie, I did not find it to be so terrible after I saw it.The characters introduced can sometimes come off as overly abrasive, loud, and at other times, so meager, and pitiful, that sympathy is difficult to conjure for them. Upon watching their stories further, and seeing the plights of the individuals and their relationships, the drama and madness behind all their actions become understood and somewhat justifiable, although they can at times be outlandish. As such, I chose to view their plots an exaggerated portrayal of the adversities within a marriage, rather than an exact one.I was curious to see how the characters' lives continued after that terrible vacation in Colorado. Sadly, I killed the entire "Why did I Get Married?" enterprise for myself. In my opinion, the sequel "Why Did I Get Married Too?" very much trivialized it's predecessor. When at one point I thought that the scripts were very much related to love, loss, and moving forward, this movie has conveyed nothing to it's viewers either than; If you have low self esteem or a husband who drowns his pain and neglect with alcohol, a new man is all you need make it all better. This theme was very romantic and well deserved in the first instalment, but pressed a very negative button for me in this one, as it was both unromantic and, in my opinion, undeserving. Plus, I can't take Dwayne Johnson's face seriously. Maybe that's what ruined everything. When I see him I just think bad movies and even worse wrestling. Not to mention, he didn't really "fit" the scene. He looked awkward. I don't know how else to put it, folks. Just awkward. At any other point, I would suggest viewing it for oneself, but I'm trying to help you, so I won't.Initially, this movie left me looking at the screen with a quizzical expression, wondering if any of these characters had learnt ANYTHING at all from the psychological studies, exercises, and scream-match trips they take annually. Upon realizing the answer was "no", I then began to feel like I, in turn, wasted my own time, having watched movies in the hopes that they would. Of course, utter peace and harmony does not a good movie make, but the extent of their drama and angst says that a lesson ought to be learnt by at least one of them BEFORE the end of the movie. Oddly enough, the only one who I thought really did so, was the only character that was single throughout the whole movie! Maybe there's a point to be made with that... But still, there was no satisfactory ending to this. However, that is by no means a reason to continue this story any further. I knew I should have stopped when I saw Angela's pink flask.