Video summary
The reviewer approaches Tyler Perry's latest film, *Why Did I Get Married Again?*, with a mix of skepticism and familiarity, noting that while they have not seen the previous entries in the trilogy, their extensive experience with Perry's other works sets clear expectations for what is to come. The movie is set against the backdrop of a lavish wedding in Italy, though the reviewer quickly points out that the setting feels entirely fictional; by the second half, the action takes place in a massive chateau backyard that bears no resemblance to Italy. The film introduces an enormous cast of wealthy characters who are universally divorced or cheating on their partners, establishing a premise where infidelity is treated as a mundane "bump in the road" rather than a serious moral failing. This ensemble of rich, unfaithful individuals creates a world that feels disconnected from reality, which the reviewer finds difficult to engage with given their background as someone who grew up watching shows like *Martin* and *In Living Color*.
The narrative structure is heavily criticized for relying almost exclusively on long monologues delivered by characters standing around at a wedding reception, effectively turning the film into a "stand-up speak" rather than a traditional movie. The reviewer highlights several absurd plot points that underscore this disconnect, such as a scene where a character lifts an impossibly heavy weight that falls harmlessly onto his chest without causing injury, followed by other guests casually dismissing the incident with laughter. Additionally, the film features a subplot involving a woman with Alzheimer's who takes photos to remember her life, only to be met with a nonsensical explanation about being strapped into a padded room if she forgets who is in the pictures. These elements, combined with a massive exposition dump early on that introduces numerous characters and their complicated family histories, contribute to a viewing experience described as dreary and tedious.
Ultimately, the reviewer concludes that the film's primary message appears to be that cheating on one's partner is acceptable behavior, a theme reinforced when characters openly discuss their past infidelities in front of their children without any real consequence or emotional weight. The financial absurdity of the wealthy characters spending $45,000 on a single night of debauchery further illustrates the film's lack of grounding in reality, making it impossible for an average viewer to empathize with their struggles. While the movie attempts to offer lessons and resolutions through endless talking sessions, the reviewer finds the conflict resolution unconvincing and the overall tone boring, suggesting that only those who enjoy low-effort content or have a specific affinity for Tyler Perry's style might find value in it. The review ends with a strong recommendation against watching the film unless one is looking for a quick, forgettable experience while doing other chores, leaving little room for praise beyond its status as another entry in a prolific but often criticized franchise.
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In my neverending quest to find a good
movie streaming across all platforms,
all roads once again lead to Netflix
with a brand new Tyler Perry film. Of
course, this one is called Why Did I Get
Married? Again, that's right. It's part
of the Why Did I Get Married trilogy, a
saga some would argue was rival to that
of The Godfather in terms of cinematic
quality. I wouldn't be one of those
people. But we're back here with Tyler
Barry, baby. It's been a week, so we
naturally have a new film. I'm going to
talk about this one in a Yeah, we'll say
spoiler route. There's There's nothing
to spoil outside of an hour and 45
minutes of your time, which is what you
would be spending if you watch this
garbage. Let's begin.
I do want to point out I have not seen
the why did I get married uh set of
films prior to this one. So, I am going
in a little bit uh cold. That said, I
have seen a bunch of Tyler Perry movies,
so I know exactly what to expect. And I
don't feel like I missed a single step
by not having the knowledge Richard
prior to this film. The basic premise is
simple. Jasmine and Wesley are tying the
knot in Italy, which is just a fancy way
of saying they're getting married in
Italy. But you really wouldn't know it's
Italy because by the time we get there
in the second half of the film, you're
pretty much relegated to a chateau
backyard. You might as well have filmed
in my crappy backyard because nothing
about Italy is on the film because this
is a Tyler Perry vehicle. There is a
rich tapestry of characters on display.
And by rich, I mean literally rich.
These people have a stupid amount of
money, which is always fun to see in any
sort of film because it's so relatable
to us common peasants. Right out of the
gates, we get to know one of the main
characters, Angela, who is always at a
level 25 out of a possible 10. She is
screaming every single word that comes
out of her mouth. We're going to watch
as she wanders around the castle grounds
of her freaking monstrous mansion that
looks like it cost 15 million if not
$1,000 million. That's a real number.
She's going around looking at the table
dressings of the the largest banquet
table I've ever seen in existence. Jesus
Christ and his disciples would look at
that and go, "Yeah, that's a bit much."
Little over the top. The first 15
minutes are really going to let you know
what to expect from this movie, which is
absolute dre as she's going to talk to
her husband about every single family
member who's attending the big day. The
exposition dump is massive here. This is
a T-Rex amount of exposition dumping
going on. Yes, we have Jquisha coming
over. She's super rich. She's divorced,
you know, and her son hates her guts. We
also have Clarence coming over from who
knows where. He's super rich if you
didn't know. I don't know the actual
names. I wrote them down and then I
realized I really don't care about any
of these people because they all suck.
They're all wealthy and they're all
divorced or cheated on their significant
other. That's pretty much the message
you're going to get through this film.
Everybody's unfaithful to their
significant other. That's fine. Just a
bump in the road. No big deal.
Inevitably, when I talk about a a film
with a black cast, one of the comments
that always pops up is, "Hey, you're a
white idiot." This is not a movie for
you, which I would retort, "This isn't a
movie for anyone, unless you like shitty
movies." This is not my first time
around the block, okay? I grew up
watching the UPN. All right? I watched
Martin. He was a mainstay in my house
every single night. I love that [ __ ] I
prefer in Living Color over SNL every
single day of the week. I give that show
an around the world and a back snap. You
would think a film revolving around
Wesley and Jasmine getting married. Wh
What's the problem here? Sounds like
everybody's got their lives figured out,
RIGHT? WRONG. THERE'S A zany cast of
characters that we have to put up with.
You have wildcard Uncle Mike who brought
his hot piece of ass younger girlfriend
to the wedding. You have Marcus Jr.
who's just a horn dog in the making like
his old man Marcus. Marcus Jr. is the
son of Marcus if that wasn't clear by
the junior. This is the kind of thing I
do. I clear up any uh misconceptions.
Subscribe. And you better believe he has
his eyes on Mike's prize. He's going to
take her up to the bedroom during the
dinner reception and he's going to go to
town. That is UNTIL ANGELA SHOWS UP. OH
MY GOD. THE POWER OF PATTY COMPELS YOU.
THINK OF um Leslie Jones from
Ghostbusters, the all female edition
that everybody loves. And that's
basically how Angela is through the
entire flick. There's a lot of lessons
to be learned in this movie. It is a
Tyler Perry vehicle after all. The last
25 or 30 minutes of the film are going
to be dedicated to monologues. Really,
the entire movie is nothing more than a
stand and speak. That's what I call it.
It's a stand and speak. People standing
at the wedding reception for 30 full
minutes. people standing at the wedding
for 30 full minutes just talking. Sounds
like Marcus Jr. needs a pep talk. And I
think that can only come from his
father. You know, his father, he's not
the best with words. It's just a lot of
people either having problems they need
to talk about or having solutions they
need to solution about. The movie is so
boring that I start to get annoyed by
the little things that don't really
matter at all. For instance, there is a
scene where the guys are lifting weights
and Mike is trying to show up his
competition, Marcus Jr. by lifting a
full six plates on a bench. That's I
mean, that's over 300 lb. Honestly, this
was uh my my bench record at a at a at a
time, but that was a long time ago. I'm
no spring chicken anymore, and every day
that goes by, I wither away like a like
a
like a mummy. He attempts to put up the
weight. his arms a tremble and then woof
it falls on his chest which should have
shattered it into pieces, but instead it
just goes.
It makes a metal sound effect. Unless
this guy's [ __ ] Iron Man, that
doesn't add up at all. And instead of
these guys freaking out because
something horrific just happened, this
guy died in front of them. NO, NO, NO,
NO, NO. INSTEAD, they're just like,
[laughter] I told you you couldn't do
the weight. I told you. And then he
racks the plate. He gets up to leave.
Marcus Jr. starts snapping his mouth
again, at which point Mike turns around,
walks back over, and then just starts
popping him off like it's nothing.
That's not how lifting works. There's a
lot of conflict in this film that needs
to be addressed, overcome, and that's
going to be done through the power of
talking. One such issue is uh our love
birds are maybe not the most love birdie
of love birds. Uh she might be getting
hit by this guy. He might be he might be
checking her once in a while, putting
her in her place, some would say. And so
some of the gals are concerned that
she's being abused. There's talk amongst
themselves that they should probably
confront the situation, but they're
going to let it they're going to let it
play out a little while. They're going
to let it seep cuz you know, you might
as well when it comes to abusing a
woman, you should just roll the dice.
Just just let let it let the chips fall
as they may. Another really pressing
storyline is uh the heavy lady, I don't
know her name, um she's got Alzheimer's
and so she walks around with this crappy
little camera. She takes photos,
spins them for the next one, and one of
the other ladies goes, "Why are you
doing that?" Well, as you know, I've got
the zyrs and I'm afraid one day I won't
remember any of this. So, I'm taking
lots of photos so that when I do forget,
I can look at the photos and then be
scared AND THINK, "WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE
in the photos?" And then they'll they'll
strap me to a a gertie and they'll wheel
me away into a padded room, as they do
with all people with Alzheimer's. Okay.
Uh yikes. Is are are you is that
something you're concerned about? Losing
your memory? And then the heavy lady
with Alzheimer says,
"Uh, yeah, no shit." What? What kind of
a dumb question is that, you idiot?
Another really hard-hitting thing that's
going to come up several times in the
first part of the movie, actually, now
that I think about it, a lot of stuff at
the beginning of the movie doesn't
really circle back at the end. I can't
remember who it is. I think it's Wesley
Senior. He holds a bunch of records at
the school for football. you know,
rushing yards, passing yards, longest
penis, things like that. And he's
concerned that his son, Wesley Jr.,
again, I'm trying to clarify, he's the
son. Wesley Jr. is the son of Wesley.
He's concerned that he's going to beat
his records. And this is all they talk
about for the first 20 minutes of the
movie to the point where I'm really
invested in this. Does he accomplish
that feat, though? unclear because the
movie never addresses it unless it
happened after the end credits where
Tyler Perry once again shows those
hilarious outtakes where people just
can't stop breaking character from all
the laugh out loud hi jinks that are
involved. I never laughed once during
this movie. I don't know how anyone
could, but the people involved in making
it sure thought it was funny as [ __ ]
This is PG-13.
There's no nudity, no penetration, no
comedy to be found. Penetration, short
for penetration. Should have clarified
that. Nothing really at all. Again, it's
a stand and speak. Stand around
speaking. I don't know if I've addressed
this yet because I actually recorded
this uh review once earlier today on my
live stream. You can see the other
version there as well where I lose my
[ __ ] mind because I kept a comment up
on the screen during the recording and
instead of trying to find some sort of
post way to get rid of it, I just redid
the whole video. Anyway, I don't want to
be redundant, but I said in the other
review, review 1.0, it's really annoying
to watch wealthy people in films because
it's incredibly out of touch with the
working man that watches. And since
everybody's rich in this, it's really
hard to get on board with the problems
that they're pretending to have. Here's
an example. After the 30 minute mark,
there's a scene in a club and Wesley Jr.
and his douchebag friends are getting
drunk off their ass. They leave Tyler
Perry's character with a $45,000
bill for the night.
What? And in any other movie or like a
episode of Roseanne or some [ __ ] this
would be the entire arc of a season.
This would be like dire stuff. We
somehow have to pay off $45,000
for a night of debauchery. How are we
going to do this? That's all I make in a
year. But no, no, no, no, no, no, no. In
this movie, Tyler Perry's like, "Yeah,
yeah, okay. Another day at the races for
me. I'm wealthy." There's a lot of
lessons that'll be learned at the end.
Mainly that it's okay to cheat on your
partner uh as they roundroin around the
wedding party and and talk about all the
times they banged other people while
married to the kids' mom or dad. And
this is in front of the kids and the
kids are like, "Oh, this is fascinating.
I didn't know that, Dad. I didn't know
you were a complete sleasball douchebag
piece of [ __ ] Tell me more about the
[ __ ] you were banging." And then they
do and it's a very nice touching moment
of Yeah. The big takeaway from this is
that if you have a ton of money like
Tyler Perry, you can open up a studio,
churn out the most loweffort garbage
humanly imaginable. It's the Sandler
motto. I think it's the Sandler formula.
Sign a sweetheart deal with Netflix and
then bingo bango bongo penis, you're
making handover fist money. It It's just
truly a great time to be alive. All
right, there you have it. My thoughts on
why did I watch this again? It's a
Netflix ex Tyler Perry vehicle. Let me
know if you checked it out in the
background while you were vacuuming.
Maybe your crossdressing dad fell asleep
on the couch 15 minutes into it. When he
woke up, he was like, "What happened to
the media films? That was when men could
be men." Let me know in the comments.
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