Think Like a Man Too (2014)
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Critics Consensus: Think Like a Man Too reunites its predecessor's talented cast, but fails to take their characters in new or interesting directions.
Critics Consensus: Think Like a Man Too reunites its predecessor's talented cast, but fails to take their characters in new or interesting directions.
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In the highly anticipated sequel, which was inspired by Steve Harvey's best-selling book Act Like a Lady, Think Like A Man, all the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas. But plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event. (c) Sony- Rating:
- PG-13 (for crude sexual content including references, partial nudity, language and drug material)
- Genre:
- Comedy , Romance
- Directed By:
- Tim Story
- Written By:
- Steve Harvey , Keith Merryman , David A. Newman
- In Theaters:
- Jun 20, 2014 Wide
- On DVD:
- Sep 16, 2014
- US Box Office:
- $65.2M
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Adam Brody
as Isaac -
Michael Ealy
as Dominic -
Jerry Ferrara
as Jeremy -
Meagan Good
as Mya -
Regina Hall
as Candace -
Terrence Jenkins
as Michael
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Critic Reviews for Think Like a Man Too
All Critics (78) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (60) | DVD (1)
You want eye-rolling moments? This movie will detach your corneas.
Hart has to deliver a spectacular highlight every time he touches the ball for this movie to have any chance, and as a result, he takes some ill-advised shots.
Think Like a Man, Too is mostly uninspired and insipid, but it rallies, and builds up enough comic steam by the end that you might find yourself amused.
We're still being fed ensemble movies with a dozen good actors that don't let them do enough.
Freed from its ties to the source material - the first film was inspired by a Steve Harvey self-help book - Think Like a Man Too borrows liberally but in a definite PG-13 fashion from The Hangover, hitting on every required Vegas touchstone.
It's intermittently fun, and funny, but after a while it's just so much swinging back and forth. We get it. You're up. You're down. You're back up again.
Incessantly shrieky ...
[A] full-throttle assault on reason, taste and human dignity ...
Noisy claptrap devoid of all that is good about cinema.
A limp sequel seemingly devoid of any wit or invention.
Not surprisingly, gags about gambling and strippers ensue. Also not surprisingly, the lightweight laughs dissolve into eye-rolling melodrama.
Ultimately, despite a handful of fairly amusing moments, this is a disappointing comedy, suffering from a surfeit of characters. Still, at least it's mercifully shorter than the first movie.
Pretends to be a post-racial couples' night gone wild, but it's chock-filled with retrograde gender stereotypes-when the camera's not ogling Vegas. Also offers lazy mocking of foreign accents and a homophobic 'joke' about a short-haired woman in a cell.
The sequel to Steve Harvey's hit takes us to Las Vegas, with hilarious, yet predictable and overdone scenarios.
Fans will enjoy slightly less funny, still risque sequel.
As it stands, the flick is too good-natured and too clean to offer audiences anything more than a mild afternoon distraction.
A pleasant, if predictable, diversion peppered with incessant chatter on the part of the irrepressible Kevin Hart.
What attracted audiences to seeing a film about couples and their relationships with the first film may want to avoid a sequel that has less humor, romance and any substance.
The raucous highlight: a lip-sync video for Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison" performed by the women. It drops down into the middle of the film like a grenade that explodes too soon, and it makes everything that comes after... seem like rote tidying up.
An amusing matinée or rental at best, Think Like a Man Too rests on its laurels - and, as a result, pales in comparison to its much funnier predecessor.
Think Like A Man Too is too bright and artificial to feel risqué.
It has some very funny moments, and a few touching ones as well. Sure, it gets corny at times, but overall, it's a very entertaining movie that can appeal to a broad audience.
Tish's original plan to stay in her hotel room and watch TV alone with a glass of wine isn't the worst idea I've heard.
Kevin Hart's Cedric steamrolls over everyone else with his motor-mouth tirades and physical antics. He's Roger Rabbit unleashed on the set of Dr. Phil.
Staggering in its efficiency, admirable in its insistence that the women deserve as much screen time as the men, and awe-inspiring as a vehicle of romantic and even career reassurance for moviegoers...
Audience Reviews for Think Like a Man Too
Cedric: For one blissful night gentlemen we are free from all our obligations, all of our responsibilities...
Sometimes the strength of an ensemble can outweigh the bad ideas some have, as far as how to continue on with a film that had no real need to continue. That almost works here. 2012's Think Like a Man was somewhat of a surprise hit, with Kevin Hart beginning to break out big, and a likable cast that many seemed to respond to. Now it has a sequel, with the word "Too" added to the end, which rarely bodes well for any movie. The cast returns, Hart's role has been amped up, and some laughs are there, but the film feels too loose for its own good. Think Like a Man Too has all the energy, but wastes it on easy jokes about its Las Vegas setting, stepping away from anything more poignant.
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If you liked the first one... don't see this movie or just don't see this movie in general. I thought my eyes were going to fall out from rolling them so much. They were so many good actors in this movie but there was no room for any of them to show what they could have done! Which really could have helped them. It ends up like a rollercoaster after a while, but not a fun one, more of a nauseating one.
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In taking the dysfunctional couplings from Think Like a Man and giving them a Vegas Vacation, this deuce doesn't exactly earn points for originality but it's contrived storytelling certainly wins an award for banality. Steve Harvey didn't write a sequel to his bestselling relationship advice book Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, mind you. Screen Gems just took it upon itself to capitalize on a certain 2012 surprise hit, which apparently involves pitting their continued romantic hijinks in - wait for it...as if it's never been done before - in Sin City. That's right, the characters that laudably but improbably eked out an enjoyable first go-round take things to the worlds most famous adult playground for a bachelor party. Oh, what misadventures they get in! Suite parties. Strip clubs. Heavy drinking. Characters not developing. Wait, what?! That's right, the loves and losses unfurled in the first flick apparently didn't teach this bunch any life lessons. They're stuck in second gear and down shifting. If a 3rd movie rears it's head (Think Like a Man Too Bad), these characters might just revert to infancy rather than actually detail the highs and lows of monogamy in the spirit of the book.
In this PG-13-rated comedy sequel, all the couples are back for a wedding in Las Vegas, but plans for a romantic weekend go awry when their various misadventures get them into some compromising situations that threaten to derail the big event.
Any resemblance between this amazing cast and an awesome story is purely inaccessible. All involved stand and deliver to the best of their ability, especially Kevin Hart, a white hot star to whom most of this broken-down wagon gets hitched to. Like a bad night at the casino tables, the script is just a bust. Oh, it's funny in parts, but there is no Las Vegas comedy cliche too insignificant for screenwriters Keith Merryman and David A. Newman to ignore. Certain audiences and film industry professionals decry the lack of movies centered around the African-American demographic, but is this what it's come to? Churning out recycled plots with tired gags and just adding in an African-American cast to act their way out of a steaming pile of H'Wood poo? The cast deserves better. African-American moviegoers deserve better. Frankly, we all do.
Bottom line: Think Like a Yawn
Super Reviewer
In the two years since the adaptation of Steve Harvey's best-selling book became a "surprise" box-office smash Kevin Hart has gone on to become one of the biggest box-office draws when it comes to comedies. The makers of Think Like A Man Too would have been remiss not to take advantage of that. Don't worry, they do and if you didn't know how big Hart was before you will after this. The pint-sized comedian goes so far as to get his own dancing in his underwear montage that lasts a good two minutes if not more. I'm not saying there is anything wrong with this, I find Hart an appealing and funny guy even if his features haven't been anything special (though I enjoyed his About Last Night re-make much more than I expected). Last summer, the man had a successful stand-up movie run in theaters and any comedian with that kind of power has every right to flex his muscles any way he wants and headlining a summer comedy sequel isn't a bad way to go. While I didn't catch Think Like A Man in its initial theater run the buzz around it was enough to warrant a rental and though I don't remember much of what occurred in that first film the one thing that did pop up as reminiscent as I flipped through info about the sequel was the fun character dynamics that were created. If there was any need for a sequel it would be to further explore the developing relationships between these men and women and to use them as examples to spell out the lessons that I'm assuming Harvey speaks of in his book. Returning screenwriters Keith Merryman and David A. Newman make sure to imbue these little encouragements or lessons through Hart's narration, but it never melds in the way it should. It is almost as if the writers are attempting to say one thing while the actual movie is trying to be another. It isn't obvious that the movie has some kind of identity crisis, but it does become painfully apparent that there is little in the way of genuine emotion going on here. Each of the men are an archetype who play into these manufactured roles that lead to easily overcome obstacles that would never be as effortless were the film grounded in any kind of reality. Think Like A Man Too is a light comedy by nature though and so it plays everything safe, from the jokes to the conflict and thus the result is little more than a colorful distraction.
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