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WHY DID I GET MARRIED TOO?
Tyler Perry offers one of the most useless sequels ever made, which somehow manages to be much worse than the first film, which I didn't think was possible and the fact that it seems about 14 hours long doesn't exactly help.
Why Did I Get Married Too? is the excruciating sequel to the 2007 Tyler Perry disaster about 4 black married couples who meet annually for a retreat/marriage seminar. The first film took place at a secluded cabin in the Colorado Rockies, so it should have been no surprise that this 2010 sequel begins in the Bahamas.
This film immediately brought to mind another dreadful sequel I saw earlier this year called The Best Man Holiday because it's one of those sequels that assumes you've seen the first film and doesn't bother to explain or recap anything that happened in the 2007 film and I'm so certain of this that I will say if you didn't see the first film, you might as well stop reading now.
Once again, Perry exploits every black stereotype he can think of in his over indulgent presentation of these people we really didn't care about after the first film. Marcus (Michael Jai White) continues to be the world's most tolerant husband married to that nightmare Angela (Tasha Smith), certain that Marcus is cheating on her and if he is, we wouldn't blame him because Angela is an emasculating shrew who would make anyone cheat. Sheila (Jill Scott) and Troy (Lamman Rucker) are struggling with finances that only become more complicated when her nasty ex, Mike (Richard T. Jones) shows up unannounced and uninvited in the Bahamas. We also learn that the marriage of Pat (Janet Jackson) and Gavin (Malik Yorba) has a lot more issues than what was glossed over in the first film.
Perry writes and directs with such a heavy and melodramatic hand here that these allegedly riveting scenes from a marriage come off either as unintentionally funny or snore-inducing and I'm sure neither of these were Perry's intention. The scene of Smith interrupting White's TV show to accuse him of cheating or of Jackson destroying her own house with a golf club just come off as forced and manipulative but this is a case where the manipulation doesn't work.
Unlike The Best Man Holiday, this cast has definitely aged since the last film. The entire cast could have used six months in the gym before this movie began filming, with Janet Jackson looking especially chunky, no matter how they tried to disguise it with wardrobe. At least in the other film, the cast still looked good. The performances are nothing to write home about, including a pointless cameo from Louis Gossett Jr. and Perry good luck charm Cicely Tyson. I talk frequently about films where I'm checking my watch, well I was checking mine about 20 minutes in on this one. And a gold star to anyone who can figure out why there is a question mark at the end of the title.
Tyler Perry offers one of the most useless sequels ever made, which somehow manages to be much worse than the first film, which I didn't think was possible and the fact that it seems about 14 hours long doesn't exactly help.
Why Did I Get Married Too? is the excruciating sequel to the 2007 Tyler Perry disaster about 4 black married couples who meet annually for a retreat/marriage seminar. The first film took place at a secluded cabin in the Colorado Rockies, so it should have been no surprise that this 2010 sequel begins in the Bahamas.
This film immediately brought to mind another dreadful sequel I saw earlier this year called The Best Man Holiday because it's one of those sequels that assumes you've seen the first film and doesn't bother to explain or recap anything that happened in the 2007 film and I'm so certain of this that I will say if you didn't see the first film, you might as well stop reading now.
Once again, Perry exploits every black stereotype he can think of in his over indulgent presentation of these people we really didn't care about after the first film. Marcus (Michael Jai White) continues to be the world's most tolerant husband married to that nightmare Angela (Tasha Smith), certain that Marcus is cheating on her and if he is, we wouldn't blame him because Angela is an emasculating shrew who would make anyone cheat. Sheila (Jill Scott) and Troy (Lamman Rucker) are struggling with finances that only become more complicated when her nasty ex, Mike (Richard T. Jones) shows up unannounced and uninvited in the Bahamas. We also learn that the marriage of Pat (Janet Jackson) and Gavin (Malik Yorba) has a lot more issues than what was glossed over in the first film.
Perry writes and directs with such a heavy and melodramatic hand here that these allegedly riveting scenes from a marriage come off either as unintentionally funny or snore-inducing and I'm sure neither of these were Perry's intention. The scene of Smith interrupting White's TV show to accuse him of cheating or of Jackson destroying her own house with a golf club just come off as forced and manipulative but this is a case where the manipulation doesn't work.
Unlike The Best Man Holiday, this cast has definitely aged since the last film. The entire cast could have used six months in the gym before this movie began filming, with Janet Jackson looking especially chunky, no matter how they tried to disguise it with wardrobe. At least in the other film, the cast still looked good. The performances are nothing to write home about, including a pointless cameo from Louis Gossett Jr. and Perry good luck charm Cicely Tyson. I talk frequently about films where I'm checking my watch, well I was checking mine about 20 minutes in on this one. And a gold star to anyone who can figure out why there is a question mark at the end of the title.