• Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Release Date: 10/12/2007
  • Running Time: 118 mins
  • Director: Tyler Perry
  • Cast: Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Janet Jackson, Malik Yoba, Jill Scott, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Michael J. White, Denise Boutte, Lamman Rucker
  • Producer: Reuben Cannon
  • Writer: Tyler Perry
  • Distributor: Lionsgate Films
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  2. Wanted, 50.9 million, 50.9 million
  3. Get Smart, 20.2 million, 77.5 million
  4. Kung Fu Panda, 11.7 million, 179.3 million
  5. The Incredible Hulk, 9.6 million, 115.9 million
  6. The Love Guru, 5.3 million, 25.2 million
  7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, 5.2 million, 300.1 million
  8. The Happening, 3.9 million, 59.1 million
  9. Sex and the City, 3.8 million, 140.2 million
  10. You Don't Mess With the Zohan, 3.2 million, 91.2 million
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Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married?

Tyler Perry makes movies for a hundred reasons, and a love of cinema doesn’t even make the top 99. He uses a camera pretty much as a recording device, as if afraid some of that fancy mise-en-scene might taint his message or screw up the stage material he has road-tested so thoroughly. But at his best — when his vaudevillian shamelessness as performer and promoter collides with his messianic bent for melodrama — the artlessness of his movies serves an emotional directness as hard to laugh off as the glare of your minister. Either you buy the premise here — essentially The Big Chillin’, with four couples airing out their marriages over a snowy weekend in the Rockies — or you sit your ass in that chair and listen up anyway while Mr. Perry teaches you something. As the group’s sharp-tongued truth teller (basically the Madea role), Tasha Smith gets the harshest lines and the biggest laughs. R&B diva Jill Scott, as a self-deprecating doormat, earns whoops and hollers from her Cinderella makeover. No, there’s not a microbe of subtlety, except in Malik Yoba’s performance as a quietly grieving parent, but the writer-director-producer-star would rather save your soul and your marriage than engage your aesthetics. That’s probably why every other line was greeted at my screening with a chorus of stern Mm-hmms and Exactlys. — Jim Ridley

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