What Men Want

Felt like it might have had some sharpness and some bite, but ended up being defanged.

An excellent cast elevates a wacky, crowded script with too few, actual jokes and a disappointingly conventional denouement.

The outtakes are funnier than what's in the film.

What begins as a standard gross-out affair (with a prosthetic #MeToo limb clumsily grafted to the body) ends in a treacly, glib, made-for-TV wasteland.

It's a fun idea to gender-flip the premise of Nancy Meyers' 2000 romcom What Women Want (starring Mel Gibson), and a shrewd decision to recast the film's protagonist as black...

The overheard men's thoughts are funny at times - a sequence where Ali gatecrashes the weekly poker game is a highlight - but overall it feels a bit artificial and unrealistic.

Henson deserves better.

Henson is affable, even endearing at times in what amounts to an entertaining and funny comedy that has no staying power once the end credits begin to roll.

Not quite an homage, it's actually a destruction.

Proof that Taraji P. Henson can carry a film like it's literally nobody's business.