And that energy was sadly absent during the rest of the film, and it showed in very poor writing. This film had about enough energy for about 25 minutes It wasn’t good energy, mind you. Hence, this is a film in which Kevin is allowed to behave like a jackass at will while the “serious” undercelebrated peers perform trite worthless drama around him. The biggest problem with this potential franchise is that this is a couples film and the unattached guy is played by Kevin Hart, who has grown bigger than his co-workers. They can all be solved in between commercials. Yes, these are all presented as problems. Henson) both have potentially promising careers in different cities Bennett and Tish ( Gary Owen and Wendi McLendon-Covey) are boring … and white. Michael and Candace ( Terrence Jenkins and Regina Hall) are getting married, but his mom ( Jenifer Lewis) is a pain-in-the-ass Dominic and Lauren ( Michael Ealy and Taraji P. ![]() Think Like a Man Too feels like an episode of “ The Love Boat” – couples show up, minor problems are introduced, then some hijinks, then a bigger problem, then a quaint and unsatisfying resolution. The sports metaphor is a running theme throughout the film, which might make an ounce of sense if anybody in the film at any time said or implied anything to the effect of, “by the way, this is a competition.” Instead, Think Too thought too little and explained too little. Here, the narration (is it me or does Kevin Hart’s voiceover sound like Chris Rock?) seemed to imply something similar – yet inconsistent – that the guys and gals had formed teams in a competition to see who could have the best night on a scale only known to the players. The original Thinktalked of a war among the sexes inspired by Steve Harvey’s manbook tell all. It wasn’t that we couldn’t tell what was happening – eve of a Vegas wedding – it’s more that the film (correctly) assumed that we wouldn’t give an Elvis sequin among the poker chips about being more than an extended sitcom episode instead of a distinctive production. Think Like a Man Too decided to forego the silly formality of exposition or cohesive plot. Most movies are burdened by explaining what was going on. And then there are sequels like Think Like a Man Too, which is as cynical a cash grab as a politician endorsing Nike. Below that is the Twilight level of phone-in in which the underwritten sequels remain true to the original vision, no matter how awful that original vision is. ![]() There’s the X-Men level in which you throw a ton of money at a sequel and hope something redeeming comes through along with the special effects. When you see enough films, you understand there are levels of phoning it in.
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