It bothered me that Janet's character was rewarded with a new love prospect. She acted very selfishly throughout the film, and it ultimately destroyed the only person that loved and deeply cared for her. So why does she get "The Rock"? Are we suppossed to feel happy for her?
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Dexter 9/10
Surprisingly I really enjoyed this series of films, because typically I'm not into Perry. My wife didn't enjoy the first one, but she was loving this one...until the end.
What a cheap, tacked on, horrible ending to a pretty good film. It felt so contrived, all the plot threads are pretty much "resolved" by Janet's tirade for them to 'work it out' in 10 seconds flat.
I felt the final 5 minutes went a long way toward robbing this movie of all it's impact.
That's Tyler Perry for ya'. Still gone over the fact he chose The Rock of ALL THE FRIGGIN' PEOPLE he could've chosen to recite those few lines. It was like he was trying to make some empty point by having The Rock be some kind of "knight in shining armor". All the people that said that Tyler is all for making really crappy movies solely for profit and that the last scene of the movie ruined any chance of it being taken seriously were so on point.
AAHH!! I'm gonna rip your head off and s*it down your neck!!!
I totally agree. Also, did you notice how Janet and the Rock were looking eye level at each other? She's like 5'2" and he's over 6' so how does that work? lol
shareThis movie had problems with camera angles/eyelines in other places too. Most notably the scene where Cicely Tyson is talking to the group and telling her "Why I got married" story. As the scene is set up she is standing right of screen to the group in their chairs, and she should be looking to the left the way the camera is set up. However, when she is talking to them she is looking out into the ocean at nobody off to the right. Watch this scene again, and try to figure out who she is talking to. It's really distracting, and makes the scene even more painful.
This film, along with everything else he has made is terrible. Perry has no notion of what makes people, people. Everyone is a cartoon character. The worst had to be when Patricia hires the gay male dancer to pop out of the cake at Gavin's work to shame him. So, how is a homophobic joke going to shame him? If anything, it just makes her look like a royal ass. To make matters worse, they continue their bickering out into the parking lot and I swear, the second he got into his car and drove off I thought "he's going to get hit by a car" and well, you know the rest. This is possibly the worst ending to a film I have ever seen.
Characters who are selfish and greedy, and just plain ugly are the heroes here? And after being married for 14 years and claiming to love someone, you will date a stranger because he has a nice smile apparently. And only after a year of mourning! We know it's a year because the title card tells us, AND that woman who comes out of nowhere reminds us again.
Perry seems to highlight and underline everything in the most amateur and childish of ways, as if he assumes his audience is emotionally and morally stupid. Yet, his movies are far more so.
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@ Alston326, they weren't even in the same frame. My wife recorded it last night and we watched it. I told her that they probably didn't even shoot this scene together.
shareI usually try not to let movies bother me, because, well, they are movies.
This movie made me angrier than any movie I think I have ever seen. She was so cruel, and hateful, and GREEDY and vindictive, and she is rewarded? That was one of the biggest WTF moments I've ever had. That greedy, hateful harpy wanted all the money she made, and half the money he made. She destroyed the house, destroyed the marriage -- and you can agree or not, but she killed that little boy (from the first film) by not strapping him in, and now she kills her husband, too? And yes, she may as well have pulled a trigger because she forced him out of the office, into his car and into an oncoming truck. She killed him, too, and she is rewarded?
What kind of person is she supposed to be? I would have expected something like this on one of those cheesy lifetime movies, where the wife has the husband killed, and once her token "mourning time" is over, she's back in the saddle, but she was supposed to have loved him. That, to me, though, is in question, too. Rich bitch. All that money and she wanted it all.
This movie was decent - not great, but decent. I would have given it a 5/10, until the ending. The ending just straight up pissed me off.
I guess, though, I should be glad that there isn't an evil white person in this one, like Perry normally has.
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Woah woah woah---I understand everything you're saying, but the part of killing her son. That's not necessary. It was an accident, and it's ultimately what savaged their marriage in the first film, because he blamed her for their son's death. I'm sorry, but that's a pretty heavy thing to think, and completely unfair. And honestly, I didn't see her so much as the villian. I don't think she was greedy---I think she was just a broken woman. Her son's death was her death---she never came back after that. He even mentions this. And quite frankly, I don't blame her. I think the worst thing that could happen to a parent is to lose their child. Now throw in feeling responsible for it, as she did. That's enough to drive someone insane. But instead, she emotionally shut down. It was the only way she could deal with it. And her husband suffered for it, and she demeaned him by doing so without realizing it. And obviously, this just made him BEYOND angry, and all he wanted was revenge---to hurt her. The difference was, she didn't mean to hurt him. I don't think that was ever her intention. But it was his intention. He WANTED to hurt her. Jesus, he burned their son's pictures. That's just plain evil. So to say Janet's character was the absolute villian is quite one-dimensioned. They both messed up, terribly messed up, and unfortunately they were never able to come to some sort of peace with one another.
Now, with The Rock thing---that was just bad writing. Hell, from the point her husband got hit and on was bad writing lol There was just no resolve for anything. We're supposed to believe his sudden accident was the key for Terry's character and his wife to forget she was falling for another man, for Angela to stop mistrusting her past unfaithful husband, and for Troy to forget his wife for doing with she did with her ex-husband? It just seemed WAYY too easy. It's not realistic. It's like he spend too much time and money putting up the storyline, that he had to wrap up the ending within 5 minutes. You can't put up such complex marital problems, and just right them off in a matter of seconds. It's delusional.
Where's the rest of the film??
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I agree wit you. That was kind of "booty" to just throw the Rock in there at the end. Especially after she had just caused the DEATH of her husband in the scene before.
shareI enjoy Tyler Perry movies. Are they masterpeieces? Ummm..no. Far from it. But I still enjoy them. I enjoyed the first "Why Did I Get Married?" and I was enjoying this one until the ending. It was a very wtf moment. It felt so rushed and awkward.
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I think the whole point of the ending (as much as I hate he died) was for her to start over. She lost her son than a husband. She needed to start a new chapter and try to move on with her life.
shareIt bothered me too that she got a new man so QUICKLY, it feels like the year that was supposed to have passed was barely enough to let Gavin's BODY go cold. It made me lose even more respect for the character than I'd had to begin with. I liked her in the first film, I thought she was an absolute cow in this one. Yes, she has pain, but she just became very selfish throughout.
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It bothered me too that she got a new man so QUICKLY, it feels like the year that was supposed to have passed was barely enough to let Gavin's BODY go cold. It made me lose even more respect for the character than I'd had to begin with. I liked her in the first film, I thought she was an absolute cow in this one. Yes, she has pain, but she just became very selfish throughout.