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.

Tyler Perry's inexplicably meteoric career continues to be an enigma with WHY DID I GET MARRIED?, his 2007 comedy-drama that pretty much comes off as a blatant rip-off of the 1984 Alan Alda comedy THE FOUR SEASONS. Perry has gathered an attractive cast of African American actors together to play four couples who travel to a mountain retreat for an alleged couples seminar that turns into a weekend of ugly accusations, confused loyalties, not-so-surprising revelations, and what Tyler Perry deals in best: tired stereotyped characters. Perry has the nerve to make these people rich and upwardly mobile with high-powered careers despite the fact that most of the characters don't have a brain in their head. Perry's enormous ego once again casts him center stage as a pediatrician married to a partner in a law firm (Sharon Leal), who had her tubes tied in order to keep babies from getting in the way of her career. Janet Jackson and Malik Yorba are beyond dull as a couple dealing with the death of a child. Michael Jai White and Tasha Smith are loud and obnoxious as a couple dealing with STD's and an ex that won't go away. Richard T. Jones plays a sexist pig who makes his overweight wife drive to the retreat while he arrives by plane with his mistress. Perry's attempt to present contemporary African Americans just comes off as forced and the stereotyped behavior of some of the character in the film is just embarrassing. The only light in all this darkness is a surprisingly charismatic performance from R&B songstress Jill Scott, who lights up the screen as Jones' overweight and insecure wife who eventually finds happiness with a sexy sheriff (Laaman Rucker). There's some nice scenery and the actors try to make the most out of a pedantic screenplay, but the whole thing just smacks of "been there done that."

The film "Why Did I Get Married?" is about a group of four couples who travel annually together to different locations to discuss their marriages and answer the question "Why Did I Get Married? One of the characters , Patricia, played by Janet Jackson is a psychologist and facilitates the discussions. Each of the couples has their problems. The first couple Mike (Richard T. Jones )and Sheila (Jill Scott) is struggling with infidelity. Mike has Sheila drive from Atlanta to Colorado, after she is removed from the plane because of her weight, while he and his assistant Trina fly up together. Terry (Tyler Perry) and Diane's (Sharon Leal) marriage is strained because he feels that she is married to her work and neglecting the marriage. Angela (Tasha Smith) and Marcus (Michael Jai White) are at odds because she is a successful business owner and he is currently between jobs and working for her. Patrica and her husband are crippled by grief from their past that they have never discussed. Each couple is on a journey to save their marriages by counseling among each other, but it seems that some of them are impossible to save. As their secrets are revealed they are forced to confront their issues and try to stay together or separate. The overall theme of the movie is that all marriages have problems, some are obvious (loud arguing, infidelity) while others are less obvious (grief, power struggles). Because there are four different couples, the there are many different angles and takes on relationship styles. Even though this may not be the type of movie that mainstream audiences will go see. It does have a universal appeal that many married couples can relate to. Many of the issues discussed in the movie may apply to any given couple at any time. While most people may not have all of the problems, at some point in their marriage, they may have to deal with similar issues such as infidelity, personality differences, a spouse choosing work over marriage, poor communication or unaddressed grief. This movie may serve more as a what- not- to -do manual than a help guide for saving a troubled marriage. Viewers who are familiar with Tyler Perry's films will recognize similar themes such as women who become empowered or develop a deeper meaning and understanding of their life. For example, when Sheila is separated from her husband for a period of time, she does some soul searching and discovers her self- worth. She loses weight, meets a man, Troy (Lamman Rucker) who treats her well. She eventually divorces her husband and marries Troy. When she shows up at Patricia's award dinner with her new husband, everyone is surprised by her transformation.

I really did not want to see this because I have not liked perry's other works. however, I allowed my girlfriends to drag me to it. I got what I expected. A low class movie that was very bad from the direction, to the acting, to the production. I swear, I do not know what goes through casting folks minds when they make their choices. Have they even read the scripts at all? And I guess it is asking too much for the director to direct the actors and actresses. I say this because surely he can see what is going on in front of the camera, so he must know it is awful. So this would be the time to give the actors some direction to help them become better, and make something that won't have audiences washing their eyes out with bleach after viewing this garbage, and lamenting the fact that they are unable to physically gouge the memory of having seen this from their brain. It was my fault really, I know perry sucks, i know his movies suck, and I know after the last one, I said never again. Yet I went again anyway. I need to have my head examined.