I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Excellent but underrated film

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

This movie has the worst acting I have ever seen in any movie. I know it's supposed to be a comedy/drama but come on. It seemed like the actors were just standing there reading their lines. No real acting involved. The funny parts, or I assume the parts that were supposed to be funny, weren't funny at all. I would recommend all actors in this film go back to acting school. Janet Jackson certainly didn't do herself any favors by being in this movie. It's a Tyler Perry movie and I would have expected more from him. We are supposed to have 10 lines of text to be able to post a review. I don't have 10 lines of text to write about this review. If there were anything positive to say then maybe but as it stands I have nothing positive to say about this movie.

"Why did I get Married?" is a story about four married couples that are all best friends. Every year they go to a couples retreat at an agreed upon location to spend time with their spouses and get away from their busy schedules. Though they are there for a romantic retreat with their friends and spouses a series of marital problems that they have been trying to hide from each other all come to surface while on this retreat. Angela played by Tasha Smith and Marcus played by Michael Jai White, relationship touches on infidelity and trust. Mike played by Richard T. Jones and Sheila played by Jill Scott relationship touches on physical attraction and domestic abuse. Tyler Perry and Sharon Neal play Terry and Dianne, a couple which puts their careers before their marriage while trying to balance having a family. Lastly, Gavin and Patricia played by Malik Yoba and Janet Jackson, struggle to deal with the death of their son all while trying to fight for their marriage that died with him. Patricia is also the glue that holds this group together because she is a couple's therapist. They all meet once a year for a couples retreat. You will see their problems all unleash and all the secrets of their marriages revealed. Though the trip is only for a weekend you will see the journey the couples go through once back home and dealing with everyday life. Patricia gets nominated for an award which reunites all of the couples both old and some new. This movie touches on the social and human relationships that we have that also can potentially affect us in our romantic relationships. You can relate to any of these characters in this movie. Even if you can't, you will learn the things you shouldn't do in a marriage or while dating at least. The director definitely shows this movie from an indirect-Subjective point of view. Lots of in your face scenes, filled with emotions and comedic jabs, Tyler Perry has really outdone himself with this series of movies. This is a great movie for couples regardless if married or dating. It touches on things that we all can relate to being in a relationship. It definitely put in perspective that marriage isn't easy by any means but anything worth having is worth working for.

Tyler Perry (Terry) married to Sharon Leal (Diane) Janet Jackson (Patricia) married to Malik Yoba (Gavin) Michael Jai White (Marcus) married to Taisha Smith (Taisha) Jill Scott (Sheila) married to Richard T. Jones (Mike) and Lamon Rucker (Troy) The theme to this movie is about Social Issues involving Love, Marriage, Overcoming and Forgiveness. These 4 married couples who are best friends from college, go on a marriage retreat every year to help strengthen their marriages, discuss their issues and figure out "Why did they get married". Patricia, who is the Psychologists in the group, helps them work through issues in their marriages, but this time her marriage is in more trouble than the others are aware of. Everyone thinks that Patricia and Gavin have the perfect marriage. Patricia and Gavin play their parts to a tee when they are having a serious and emotional moment in the kitchen after returning from the retreat early. The film, "The Best Man" has the same appropriateness as does this movie. It is about social issues of relationships, forgiveness and overcoming as well. One technique that I will choose is the lighting. Throughout the movie the lighting was what I call calm. There were not a light of bright vibrant colors and spot lighting. I do feel that this motif was intentional in order to convey the seriousness of the subject matter. There were some light-hearted moments in dialogue to break up the monotony a little though. But for the most part the lighting was very low light and the focus was on the situations that these couple were facing. The second technique that I will choose is the sound/music. The music helped to set the tone for what was about to happen, and to transition into the next sequence of scenes. It was also utilized to set the mood and the tone of the movie. It almost enabled you to feel the struggles and unfortunate situations happening in the couples lives. It also helped you to feel the love between them as well as the pain.The acting in this film along with the dialog was essential to getting the story-line and the mood across and to engage the viewer in the life circumstances of each couple. The story-line in this film was excellent and all too real life. The lessons learned could be helpful to struggling marriages who are having a difficult time figuring out "Why they got married"!

Really good."Why Did I Get Married," a film that works because of the heart and soul of the cast even when it feels like Perry's over-the-top preachiness is about to cave everything in. The film centers around four couples who gather each year at a Rocky Mountain retreat for your basic "save our marriage" therapeutic weekend. Being a Perry production, the weekend will be filled with lots of laughs, lots of tears, lots of revelations, a few heartbreaks and a solid Christian center that without the preachiness that often accompanies such a central core.Janet Jackson leads the cast as the relationship expert who guides the weekend supported by her husband (Malik Yoba). There's a power couple (Tyler Perry and Sharon Leal), a drinkin'/fightin' couple (Michael Jai White and Tasha Smith), and an obviously abusive couple (Jill Scott and Richard T. Jones). Before the weekend is over, in typical Perry fashion, secrets will be revealed and lives will be changed for the good and the bad. The ensemble cast is solid throughout, most notably a well-padded Jill Scott as a gentle, sweet woman trying to deal with a cheating hubby, and Tasha Smith, who's blessed with the film's best lines and she nails every one of them.While it's certainly easy to knock Perry's inability to produce anything approaching subtlety, it seems almost pointless to do so. Perhaps because of his lack of subtlety, Perry's films inevitably say things that most of today's filmmakers don't have the balls to say and it's rather refreshing to have a filmmaker actively speak out on issues. The scenes between Jill Scott and Richard T. Jones, for example, are almost achingly painful in their honesty and brought vividly to mind the utter shock of Blair Underwood's domestic abuse scenes in "Madea's Family Reunion." Other solid performances are turned in by Janet Jackson and Perry himself, who proves he needn't be dressed in drag to be an accomplished actor. Toyomichi Kurita's cinematography is solid given the film's inherent staged feeling and that all of Perry's films continue to be modestly budgeted productions. Aaron Zigman's original music complements the scenes nicely, and, while the production design doesn't quite tear us away from the staged feeling, it nonetheless fits the proceedings well.Tyler Perry doesn't really need film critics. While his first turn away from Madea, "Daddy's Little Girls," was a box-office disappointment, Perry's modestly budgeted films continue to successfully reach Perry's targeted urban markets and, with a typical box-office in the $50 million range, Perry's future as a filmmaker continues to be on solid ground.danceability-1, Amsterdam Holland