What Men Want Reviews
March 19, 2019
The outtakes are funnier than what's in the film.
March 18, 2019
Adam Shankman's movie isn't as defiantly feminist as it might have been...This might disappoint some observers, but I'd have settled for the film being passably funny, which it sure isn't.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1/5
March 18, 2019
The humour is raunchy slapstick that never feels clever and is rarely funny. It feels like a waste of an idea, especially in a climate when it could have been much more.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
March 17, 2019
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.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
March 15, 2019
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.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/5
March 15, 2019
The messages in this clumsy comedy are not new: men and women might as well be from different planets, and careerism comes at a price. It's not very funny, and only Ms. Henson makes it bearable.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
March 15, 2019
What Men Want will make you ask questions of yourself... Chiefly, why didn't you stay at home?
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
March 14, 2019
What Men Want is pure shrug cinema: not bad so much as wispily superfluous, which may not come as a surprise if you can recall the similarly disposable 2000 original.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
March 11, 2019
For all its apparent progressive intentions, this revamp has a similar whiff of the 90s about it.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
March 2, 2019
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first truly terrible film of 2019.
Full Review
| Original Score: Read A Book
February 27, 2019
I just wasn't feeling this remake. I wish that Taraji would take more care in choosing her roles.
February 26, 2019
It's ultimately just another romantic comedy full of blah rom-com tropes.
Full Review
| Original Score: C+
February 24, 2019
Impishly wooden and convoluted...a lazy tiptoe through tripe perceptions of what an alpha female perceives as relating to her meathead male colleagues.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/4
February 22, 2019
It's not that What Men Want isn't enjoyable, it's just that, while you're watching, you get the sense that it could have been so much more. This film is proof that it takes more than genderswapping to make something old new again.
February 14, 2019
The movie is really all about what she wants, consequences be damned.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
February 14, 2019
What Men Want feels stuck in the 2000s due to dull direction and rote plot devices.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2/5
February 14, 2019
What Men Want is an idea wasted and an opportunity rejected.
Full Review
| Original Score: 1.5/5
February 14, 2019
It's the kind of picture in which half the cast seem to have come equipped with their own stand-up comedy routines and are determined to deliver them no matter what anyone else is doing.
Full Review
| Original Score: 2.5/5
February 13, 2019
Better than the original is damning this movie with faint praise, but faint praise is really all it deserves.
February 13, 2019
This poor movie... and these jokes... they are just picking this poor story apart like buzzards.