The plot is pathetic and I knew going in I'd have to get over the impossibility of making the gimmick work. She can supposedly hear all men's thoughts but according to the movie they only ever think when it's convenient. There are huge parts of the movie when she's not hearing the thoughts of the men around her, when it doesn't make for a good joke or serve the plot. But we can get over that. It's just a gimmick to get to the moral of the story about being true to one's self... blah blah blah.
The plot is as hackneyed and cliched as one would imagine and the jokes have all pretty much been told before. It's the typical Men are from Mars bullshit and it's tired... so dead tired. I cracked a smile a few times.
But this is the second movie in a few years directed by an openly gay director which had overtly homophobic content throughout and that pissed me off. In typical romcom fashion Taraji has a gay sidekick and everything about him having a relationship is a joke in the movie. The amount of times she condescends to his romantic expressions is disgusting. Sure the movie makes him a likeable character and all but it is the thought of him in a relationship which gets the laughs. They don't even show him getting to kiss his love interest despite making his romantic advancement a plot point. All that while she has all the sex-with-a-bra-on sex that the movie can pack into it's 2 hour runtime. I just really couldn't take any more condescension.
So dumb plot, bad jokes, homophobic overtones. It's all just a piece of crap and likely isn't what men, or any other audience, want at all.
We need to get Taraji the kind of movies that are worth her talent and stop putting her in crappy films like this.
What Men Want
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Tracy Morgan, Aldis Hodge, Josh Brener, Erykah Badu, Shane Paul-McGhie, Wendy McLendon-Covey, Tamala Jones, Phoebe Robinson, Max Greenfield, Jason Jones, Brian Bosworth, Richard Roundtree
Director: Adam Shankman
Writers: Tina Gordon, Alex Gregory, Peter Huyck
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