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Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?
Lionsgate

Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 54 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.4 out of 10
based on 12 reviews
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MPAA RATING: PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual references and language

Starring Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Richard T. Jones, Denise Boutte, Tyler Perry, Malik Yoba, Michael Jai White, and Tasha Smith

Why Did I Get Married? is an intimate story about the difficulty of maintaining a solid love relationship in modern times. During a trip to the picturesque, snowcapped mountains of Colorado, eight married college friends have gathered for their annual seven-day reunion. But the cozy mood is shattered when the group comes face-to-face with one pair's infidelity. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins questioning the validity of their own marriage. Over the course of the weekend, husbands and wives take a hard look at their lives and wrestle with issues of commitment, betrayal, and forgiveness as they seek a way forward. (Lionsgate)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Tyler Perry  
DIRECTED BY: Tyler Perry  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: February 12, 2008 
Theatrical: October 12, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 113 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA 

What The Critics Said

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75
New York Daily News Patrick Huguenin
The problems are real; the solutions are ... well, really entertaining. Perry mixes heartfelt drama with bold-stroke, insult-slinging comedy.
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70
Variety Ronnie Scheib
Though fans might miss Perry's genre-exploding daring, the excellent cast injects enough pathos and zing to keep picture percolating.
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70
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
More than anything, a Tyler Perry movie is an interactive experience, and Why Did I Get Married? is no exception. At the screening I attended, it was often difficult to hear the dialogue between bouts of enthusiastic applause and shouts of “You go, girl!”
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67
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
Perry is of the spell-everything-in-capital-letters and act-it-out-loudly schools. Yet his sensitivity to women is a tonic.
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63
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The most disappointing thing here, besides Perry's ongoing visual impairment (he deserves better cinematography and editing) is Scott.
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63
TV Guide Ken Fox
Perry certainly loves his divas -- the best parts are written for Scott and the wonderful Smith.
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60
LA Weekly Jim Ridley
The writer-director-producer-star would rather save your soul and your marriage than engage your aesthetics. That’s probably why every other line was greeted at my screening with a chorus of stern “Mm-hmms” and “Exactlys!”
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50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jason Anderson
The movie has a better sense of flow than his past efforts, and a few lengthy travelling Steadicam shots and some decent mountain scenery (supplied by B.C. rather than Colorado) help dispel the feeling that Perry has merely filmed another of his plays.
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50
The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
Smith emerges as this subtlety-impaired film's most intriguingly ambiguous character, at times an acid-tongued shrew and at others a bluntly righteous truth-teller. The liveliness of her performance helps ensure that while Married is stiffly written, didactic, and whiplash-inducing in its tonal shifts, it's also very seldom dull.
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50
The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
As has been previously demonstrated in the hugely successful Perry's stage, television and big-screen works, subtlety and tonal consistency are not his strong suits. Here, the mostly broadly drawn characters and situations on display quickly prove grating, with the film veering awkwardly between broad comedy and melodrama.
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50
Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Perry hasn't lost his touch for stroking his loyal audience of Oprah women; his enforced happy endings are the car keys taped under your seat.
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20
Austin Chronicle Toddy Burton
There’s such an overriding sense of soap opera that I kept expecting a commercial break.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 8.4 (out of 10) based on 69 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Trisha P gave it a10:
I loved this Movie. Tyler Perry is awesome.

Chris S. gave it a7:
The thing that bothers me has nothing to do with the acting content. It merely has to do with the fact that Mr. Perry feels the need to label every single one of his project has "his." Is it because this man has a big ego, or maybe because he just wants every single type of credit he can get.

Diva T. gave it a10:
WOW! I'm not even married and this movie really made me think. This movie is a masterpiece!

Lonterius D. gave it a5:
This may have been an improvement from his past movies, but nothing has changed. In this industry its about originality and we are not seeing that from Tyler Perry.

Luis G. gave it a6:
Tyler Perry has crafted a pleasant film.. nothing extreme just a docile dosage of soap opera material without the wink ... Jill Scott was great as the rest of the cast.. Funny moments.

Jay H. gave it a4:
Tyler Perry movies suffer from poor and amateurish writing, below average acting and the same story just told in a different way. Doesn't he have any original material? The situations are melodramatic and not real life, the story lacks continuity, focus and the situations are predictable.

Jerome gave it a1:
People, just because it was better than the other crap Tyler Perry has put out does not mean it wasn't a terribly done movie. He just has no talent as a filmmaker. I saw this as a favor to a friend who wanted to see it and couldn't convince anyone else to go with her. I had pretty low expectations, and it was even worse than I thought it'd be. The movie was poorly done and frankly, I was embarrassed to be seen walking out of it.

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