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Kathryn Hahn, Karolina Wydra, Rhea Seehorn, Ike Barinholtz, Alex Gregory, and Chase Sui Wonders attend FIJI Water at the AFI Awards

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Karolina Wydra, Rhea Seehorn, Ike Barinholtz, Alex Gregory, Kathryn Hahn and Chase Sui

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What Men Want (2019)

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What Men Want (2019)

Shockingly, What Men Want is even less insightful than the film which inspired it nearly two decades ago.

After a bachelorette party, sports agent Ali Davis (Taraji P. Henson) wakes up to find she can read the mind of her gay assistant Brandon (Josh Brener). In fact, she can hear all men’s thoughts. Initially distraught, she realizes this skill may be exactly what she needs to sign rising basketball superstar Jamal Barry (Shane Paul McGhie), impress her boss (Brian Bosworth) and charm single father Will (Aldis Hodge).

It was a letdown when Mel Gibson’s character gained as little insight into womanhood as he did back in 2000 but hey, that was back then and the film was new at the time. What excuse does What Men Want have for making no attempt to be insightful or topical at all?

Your initial hopes and expectations plummet and then shatter into a thousand pieces as Ali is shown to be this aggressive ball-buster who has no understanding of others’ feelings whatsoever. You hope that, at the very least, the film will be funny. And yes, there are laughs. You can attribute them all to Taraji P. Henson and Josh Brener, who play off each other well and make the best of the material they’ve been given. Oh, but how lame that material is. People accidentally getting high, people making funny faces during sex, sitcom-style misunderstandings and shenanigans are prevalent throughout. This story by Tina Gordon and Jas Waters has a penchant for serving up events and scenarios that would never happen. I know the film is a fantasy comedy but even so, it’s unbelievable. Ali is supposed to be very good at her job but she behaves like someone who doesn’t understand a thing about office work. Her co-workers are so tone-deaf and oblivious to what’s happening around them you wonder if the picture is set in a parallel universe where the words “Human Resources Department” have never been uttered. If the dead-in-the-water ad proposed by Ali's co-workers was supposed to be a spoof of lame-brained marketing blunders from companies like Gucci and H&M, then it wasn't conveyed well.

To a certain extent, it’s wrong to judge a film on what it isn’t rather than what it is. This picture is about a black woman in a predominantly male-led industry who suddenly gains the opportunity to know what others think of her. The concept isn’t explored. Fine. Maybe the next remake will be a little more hard-hitting. If we critique the film simply as a comedy... it still doesn’t work, serving up tired gags you want to turn away from in embarrassment. This is one of the few comedies whose mid-credit scene is so bad I urge you to leave the theater before it begins. (Theatrical version on the big screen, February 18, 2019)

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