Why Did I Get Married Emotionally Validates Weekend Box Office

Tyler Perry has taken plenty of risks to get where he is today, but his new movie Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married took the biggest risk of all – not having a lead character who’s a seven-foot-tall black bloke dressed up as a fat old lady.

Not that it matters, though – Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married is the new top movie at the weekend box office. Clearly ditching the female fat-suit for Why Did I Get Married paid dividends, with the movie making a decent enough $21.5 million at the weekend box office, but Tyler Perry has clearly been dabbling in risk management – instead of a fat old mannish lady, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married’s female lead is Janet Jackson. And she’s a woman who, while lacking the emotional range that a Tyler Perry part usually calls for, does constantly give off the impression that her top will fly open and she’ll run around slapping her boobs all around the place. Again.