Lionsgate and Tyler Perry have unveiled the final trailer for their sequel to the director's hit Why Did I Get Married?, cannily (if nonsensically) entitled Why Did I Get Married, Too? You might recall the original teaser from November, a wild mood swing of a preview blending urban romance, island ennui and the pulsating psychosis of every thriller made since about 1984. The new trailer downgrades the storm warning a bit, foreshadowing much of the same relationship carnage while withholding the slapped-in-the-face-with-taglines feeling that accompanied the original. In other words, expect all the fierce drama -- plus a wigged-out Janet Jackson -- with none of the migraine.
Whereas Perry's original Married was based on his successful play of the same name, featuring a cluster of couples on a troubled retreat to a snowy winter cabin, the all-original Married, Too relocates the ensemble to a tropical idyll that only looks like paradise. Yet while the new trailer does deliver additional context for the travails afflicting these couples as they hit the beach, I still have no idea why Jackson goes bonkers in the end or why, as the narrator now intones, "One of these couples will not make it." But you know what? Baffling as the whole thing is, I'd watch these genre meltdowns a dozen times before sitting through Blue Valentine again.
VERDICT: Sold!
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