YMMV / Why Did I Get Married?

• Base-Breaking Character: Angela. Some absolutely love her due to bringing a lot of the film's humor with her dialogue and interactions with the others, especially with Marcus and Mike. Others feel her abrasiveness hurts the film and that her brand of humor is too stereotypical (and these same fans loved seeing Marcus putting her in her place by the end of this film and loathed the Reset Button both her and Marcus received in the sequel.)
• Catharsis Factor: Pretty much everyone breathed a sigh of ecstatic relief when after all her abusive husband did to her, Sheila takes an empty wine bottle and breaks it over his head after the affair comes to light. And it's made better by a line from Angela, saying what most of the audience is thinking.
  Angela: (staring impassively at his body on the floor) Oh, I hope he's dead.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Towards the end of the film, Dianne accuses Terry of having an affair with his employee, which he flat out denies. Come the sequel, it eventually comes out that Dianne herself was having an emotional affair with a coworker. Adding onto this, whereas her initial accusation involved some over-the-top screaming, his reaction to her admission was more of a Tranquil Fury.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • When Sheila and Troy develop a relationship.
  • Sheila’s speech about Troy certainly counts.
• Narm: Some fans of the movie found the scene of Mike shaming Sheila when she was wearing lingerie funny, and felt bad for it because the scene was supposed to be a tear-jerker.
• Signature Scene: Fans of this movie remember the infamous dinner scene the most out of all the parts.
• Tear Jerker:
  • In one scene, Sheila talks about her declining marriage with Mike due to her weight gain:
    Sheila: Sometimes he looks at me like I disgust him.
  • The fact that Mike treats Sheila so horribly despite how nice she is to Mike.
  • When Sheila finds out about Mike’s affair with Trina. She’s visibly hurt & it took months for her to move on from her nasty divorce with Mike.
• The Woobie: Sheila and Terry come off as this. Sheila has been suffering from constant emotional abuse from her husband and Terry cannot get the time of day from Diane due to being a workaholic.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The entire group, in a way, does come across as unsympathetic only because they all tolerate Mike verbally abusing Sheila in front of them every chance he gets. Often, Angela is the only one who will speak up when Mike starts openly insulting her in front of them and even then, the movie itself isn't written well enough to explain why the hell any of them are friends with Mike. And what's even more poorly written is after Mike exposes everyone's secrets including his own at the dinner table, months later, we find out they are all still his friend. It makes you think they're all kind of lowkey terrible people to associate with someone who would emotionally abuse his wife and cheated on her with one of her friends and had the nerve to bring the cheater along with him to the retreat. Much of the fault lies with the writing; Mike is under developed and is pretty much a one dimensional bully, so it makes the entire group look bad that they even accept his friendship before or after the affair is exposed.

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