April 4, 2010
by Eydie Mendoza | Staff Writer
Tyler Perry’s new release “Why Did I Get Married Too?” is no disappointment as the sequel to his 2007 film “Why Did I Get Married?”
Perry “takes it there” again and in full force. This film stars Perry, Janet Jackson, Jill Scott and Cicely Tyson. I give the movie my thumbs up.
Jackson is amazing in her part as Patricia, renowned author and psychologist who gathers her friends every year to vent and work through problems. This time the couples meet in the Bahamas for their yearly couples’ retreat with entangled lessons of trust and love.
The obvious and hilarious couple — the loudmouth Angela (Tasha Smith) balanced by quiet “You know what I’m saying” exaggerating Marcus (Michael Jai White) — returns to deliver a comedic second round of bantering, while the other characters carry the audience through suspicion and hope, far beyond the first film.
What works for Perry is that the characters are believable. They are like people we know in real life and their personal and relationship problems are all familiar.
“Why Did I Get Married Too?” makes the audience laugh, cry and made me squirm in my seat over the discomfort caused by the drama, distrust, hitting below the belt and ugly fighting portrayed by the stellar cast of characters in this film.
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