 I shot look at you pressing all the ladies. Whatever why would I waste a second on her when I got you standing right here in front of me? Why her eyes always closed am I that ugly? Damn my eyes open, but she look crazy as hell So the original film that this film is based on was what women want It came out in 2000 stars Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt and it was a fantastic film I remember it vaguely when I was in high school. I really did enjoy it now This loosely based remake what men want with Taraji P. Henson I can't necessarily say that I was anticipating it. I was a little worried walking into it But how did it turn out? Let's find out. My name is Brennan Keith Avery and this is just my opinion Hey, what's going on guys? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review For what men want I really do appreciate it. Now. I'm a big fan of miss Taraji P. Henson I think she's a fantastic actress. She did a great job in hidden figures She did a great job in baby boy and all of the past films that she's been in She's for the most part did a great job, but as of late 2018 Taraji P. Henson my sister. I love you But you had two of the worst film two of the worst films that came out last year with acrimony Which was the worst film of all last year. I did not see the the John C. Rowling will for a movie people told me that was even worse and then proud Mary I just thought that was garbage. She turned into new at the end So I was worried about this and right here what men want now the producer of it is will Packard a William Packard He has produced a ton of films that have to do with black people Like think like a man ride along obsessed with in 2009 with Beyonce. I love that film, you know We got a director here at Adam Shankman. I've never heard of him before but he is at the helm of this I just thought it was kind of interesting behind the scenes that what men want with a Lee female actress is in the titular role You know, it's being directed by a male But what women want in 2000 they had the male in their shoes. It was directed by Nancy Myers So I just kind of like how they switched it up right there But you know is it you know, it is what men want with Taraji. Is it a stinker like proud Mary? Is it a stinker like acrimony last year? The answer to that question guys is absolutely. No, this film is Fantastic, I am not gonna waste your time Please as soon as you're done watching this video go ahead schedule some time by yourself Get your girl get your dude get whatever your family some friends y'all go see this movie because I absolutely loved it And we're gonna talk about why now when they first started out it kind of reminded me of a to can play that game With Vivica Foster came out like late 90s early 2000s. That's just kind of the vibe I got where you have a strong black woman She's control. She's in control of her own. She's in control of her destiny. She knows what she's want She's gold oriented. She's strong. She's not no pushover. That's like that So, you know, I'm liking that and then like the next thing that I noticed about this film What's the soundtrack the soundtrack was fire? It did not have a bunch of songs that we hear today on the radio This was like Me it's late 90s. I mean we had some TLC. We had some Beyonce of course Beyonce still probably now But I'm talking about like can you pay my bills? You know type songs now They may sound silly that's on that concept or whatever, but now we had Beyonce we had some TLC We had another of a number of great artists from like the mid to late 90s early 2000s And I was you know, but we had some Jill Scott in there too. I was bobbing my head, you know Throughout the most, you know majority of this movie just off the soundtrack and that's just kind of something You know that I was not expecting now, of course This is a romantic comedy and what I do like my romantic comedy sometime I can roll my eyes at them Second act kind of had a you know a little flavor in there of that But I ended up really enjoying that film and I did here and one thing is because the love story I guess you can say was not the main focal point of this movie. It was the subplot And kind of took the backseat for majority of the movie except when it was absolutely necessary And when it was necessary it hit home very very very hard 98 percent of the time And we're going to talk about that 2% later on in this video The next thing that I really did love love about this movie was it had a ton of family values But not just from the main characters from all the characters within the movie from Taraji P hands. Well, I don't want to call Taraji P. Her name is Allie Davis. She was a great character What I want to talk about. No, we'll talk about the family I want to talk about so At her friends, you know, they there wasn't her family that was her friends But you know her friends did feel like a family Allie in this film. She had a great relationship with her father and it wasn't just like a little snippet You know great relationship, you know, and okay. She has a great dad She has a great relationship and it doesn't come back around. No, it comes back full circle a few times and actually All those elements helped push the story forward, you know and add a little heart to it Her sorry about that hitting the mic Her father is a Richard round tree the original shaft You know, he was just in the the latest shaft trailer with semi ejections Well, great actor great male great strong presence in this movie I was really smiling when I was like, you know, feeling all the family values and dynamics in this film So you have that with Allie and her father You also have that with a couple of other characters as well What is the gentleman's name? I should have looked it up But I did not think that I was going to be talking about him, but I have to I have to give him credit where credit is due Just real quick guys. I'm so sorry, but that's okay. His name is uh, Aldis Aldis Hodge He plays the character will no last name, you know him and his little son in this movie as well You've seen the trailer um, you know where uh, she's talking about uh, the little boy comes in there and he has uh, Taraji's panties on her head on his head He's like welcome to Wakanda and he's like don't breathe. That's that's will You know, he has a strong family presence as well And just every everybody around like tracy morgan is in this film as well. He he's really he says it like You know family just really important to me and if you're just not You know have family values. I really don't want to have anything to do with you But like what is this movie about besides what do men want allie davis taraji p henson She is a sports agent for an agency Affirm that is run predominantly by males and she's at the top of her game. She has a A nice little assistant by the name of brandon who's gay in the film And the reason why I brought that up is because they bring it up a lot in the film And there is a number of gay jokes and they they are funny or whatever So, you know, I mean if you are gay, if you're homosexual, there's some stuff in here for you too Just not a heterosexual relationship. I'm just saying I mean, you know This film did a great job all across the board But allie is an agent and she's trying to score the latest Like first a second round draft pick named jamal and you know, he's like 18 19 years old Tracy Morgan is the father or whatever. So he's like, okay I'm we're not going to f with you if you don't give a crap about family You know I'm saying so it's like family stuff like all over the place Another thing that I loved about this move. Oh, well Another thing I love about this movie is just allie davis herself I said in the beginning that it reminded me of vivica a fox and two can play that game She's just a great character. She's funny the acting in this film Came through Top notch and I'll talk about that in just a second another great thing I liked about this movie is I really just had no idea how this film would end And I think that goes to just the writing I will list all the writers, but I was looking and it's like eight writers That's like a lot um, you know, but that's fine, but um, I think it you know I didn't know how I was going to end it was because they did not put the the um The love story the romantic comedy in the forefront That was kind of a subplot because it could have been predictable But again, that kind of fall into that two percent. I was complaining about we're going to talk about Um in a second But I had no idea how this was going to end if I can predict how the movie is going to end or how it's going to go On the first 20 30 minutes, you know I'm clocked out. I haven't seen every movie But I've seen a lot of movies and sometimes I do get a little annoyed With the three extractor of how we have here in the states Now another good thing is that that this film is rated r and there are you I'll be honest with you You know, I don't like that. You know, my black sister's out there Whether you uh yellow bone light skin albino dark chocolate, whatever I love all y'all I mean, I love all women, of course But I especially love my black woman and when it comes to films I'm a little leery about you know, them being over sexualized in the movies and you know, just You know d s and hoes and stuff like that, you know There's reasons why I kind of it had some feelings about girls tripping, you know But that's a different uh, you can go check out my review for that But um, there's nothing to worry about in here, of course, there was sex in the movie This is rated r but it wasn't over the top It was honest It was real because women like having sex just like men do I mean you're a human being you're supposed to if you if you don't like having sex I don't want to necessarily say there's anything wrong with you. I mean, that's fine But I mean, you know, that may be a conscious decision in your life But I like the way it was handled in this film. It was not over the top. It was not raunchy It was realistic to me. It was funny. I like the way that's why she put, you know, her female Emotions, you know at the forefront, you know, sometimes she do, you know, she'd like to get it in every woman out there Like I'm gonna wait till I get married I mean, I I encourage that and I think that, you know, everybody should do that man or woman But at the same time, this is not realistic And I really do like how the film handled that and with this film being rated r It was a necessary r because sometimes people or studios can just a stamp a mpa Well, then the studios don't make the decision the mpaa does but at the same time, you know, the studio does control Okay, do we want this pg-13 rated r? You know, they have to make certain decisions But this film right here It was a necessary rated r because the whole plot of the film is what men want and or even what women want And I don't even know if that film was rated r as well. Let me just look real quick But uh, what women want with male Gibson So what men want what we're talking about now was rated r. Oh, what women want was pg-13 I I did not realize that and that film came out in Two hours and seven minutes and I brought it up for a reason. I'm saying the second But this film what men want with alley with toraja. It was a necessary r because I'm pretty sure, you know, women do have their launches You know conversations to themselves in their head and amongst themselves But of course men do too and we I mean y'all I already know this But if a chick walks by and you know, she is fine as hell, you know, we gonna Think something on my mind not just something crazy. Oh, I just want to I mean, okay, that's a little bit too much But I mean, you know, we're human as well And so when we have a character that is able to read minds or whatever, you know It's for the film to be good You have to be realistic of what men are thinking all the time not just about women But just in general just a life just like you just like oh, I just sharded or that's gross, but or Oh, I didn't brush my well I'm not giving the best examples right now But I think you get my point And when the men because you can read what men starts and I like the way Um, I like the way they put that uh, they I like the way that was developed in the film. It was uh, well, I don't want to say it was creative But I liked it, but that was very realistic The R rating was necessary with the the brief sex scenes and also just the way that uh, Men think and the way she's hearing her thoughts and things like that And one of the things I said I really liked about the film was to watch She's acting when she realized that she was able to hear men starts. It was hilarious I was laughing my ass off. I would be reacting the same way like whoa I know I said that I want to know what women want, but this is just too much You know, like I would have wished it, you know, this woman would have cleaned herself this morning But I just didn't hear that and I had a crush on her, but I don't know now like And the way to shoot it was funny. I was laughing I was one of the I was one of the loudest people in the theaters laughing and and that's not normal I mean, I'm a goofball. I'm silly and I like to laugh But I was it was one scene in particular y'all I was the man. I was damn near on the floor It was so damn funny to me like seriously at this particular time I'll I'll says it was a laugh. I was laughing all the way into the next scene And people were started like when the when everybody else calm down laughing because I was laughing at this particular joke as well And I really don't want to ruin it for you because it kind of came out of nowhere You know, you kind of like, okay I feel like something crazy about to happen. It didn't happen and then I was damn near in tears When everybody else stopped laughing or whatever I was still laughing They started laughing to me laughing because I was laughing so hard It was it was just that funny, you know what? I'm gonna go ahead and tell you what it is in the spoiler Into this video. It's gonna be after the credits So after the hero you hear out of music and the thumbnails and pop up I'm gonna drop that spoiler at the end. Uh, so yeah, the movie the movie is funny as hell I I loved every character in this movie There was not one single character in this movie that I did not like Even the bad guys or the people that you don't like that you're not supposed to like I still like them just because of their presence and the dilemmas that they cause And the obstacles that Taraji and Ali had to overcome in this film. That's great, too The person that stole that hold on acting Wait, wait acting when she got okay. I'll talk about the sorry about that Person that stole the show eric abadu my goodness gracious. She was funny too when the film ended I was like, I got up like this and I was like, oh, wait, wait. This is a romantic comment It's a comment. We supposed to get some outtakes and then there was no outtakes at first I'm like, wait, well, what are outtakes is this don't even feel right? You know I'm saying everybody else will sit down too But we have some outtakes where eric abadu at the end but when she was just in the movie She was just so random with it. You know I'm saying great great actor great Excuse me actress. She was funny. I liked it All of Taraji's friends were funny in these scenes I mean, she kind of had to do with how she got these these abilities to You know hear hear what men want, but like it was funny as hell Let's see Yeah, I talked about Taraji being honest Tracy Morgan I also um, you know, this also had to do you know, had to do with some stereotypes Like with what certain like white people assume that black people like and I'm not talking about all white people Just some I mean, we don't like a bunch of just well, I don't want to ruin it for you But I like the way that they addressed it in the film. It was very nice But guys this film is freaking hilarious now. This is not it's not perfect movie I'm gonna talk about a couple of dislikes that I don't like That I don't like about the film first thing it came in at an hour not an hour well 117 minutes was an hour and 57 minutes I did feel it was a little too long At one point it was just so great and it was getting good But I don't want to necessarily say I was bored But I kind of felt the length Okay, and that kind of just kind of goes to like the flow of the film the pacing of the film So it could have been a little off a little bit in the second act or whatever They could have kind of trimmed the fat, you know, but at the same time I feel that everything that they put on screen was necessary So I don't know how they will handle it. I mean, I've never shot directed written or produced a film before So what do I know, you know, I'm just a guy that likes movies. You know what I'm saying? That's giving you my opinion, but I didn't I really didn't care for that. Um, also Uh, what I was really loving about sorry hitting the table What I was really liking about the film like I said before is I did not know how I would end And I talked about how in America we have a three act structure The reason why I said it is because I don't I don't watch enough I don't watch as much as I used to but I used to watch a lot of foreign films as well South America, you know, especially a bunch of Asian films as well And they do not always follow the three act structure You can just get a whole different sense of culture and how movies made But here one of the things that I did not like is Every especially there's always a third act fallout But you know Right as a second act is transitioning to the third act, especially in romantic companies I entrusted you and this was fake the whole time No, you don't understand. I don't want to talk to you anymore. They run off And then at the third act they come and make up, you know You have it every time and it was in this film as well And I'm kind of like, oh man, I didn't even think we was going to get this But here here it is blah blah blah the second and third act fallout I've seen this in many times. So, you know, I was a little over it, but Uh, the way they tied it up kind of made up for it. It was a little rushed But at the same time with the length of the film Being what it was, there was a lot of loose ends in this film that they had to tie up And I liked the way they tied all of them up. It was a little lengthy I was kind of having a lord of the rings return of the king vibe thing going on If you've seen that film that trilogy, you know, the lord of the rings part three The originals, you know, part three, they had like 17 endings. It's like, oh damn I mean, I like what I'm seeing, but is the movie going to end or not? So, you know, that's some of my little grips there and then I kind of at the very end like Trigy made like a little decision, uh, when, you know, towards the end of her character at least And I kind of roll my eyes like, oh lord, you know what I'm saying, but um You know, this isn't necessarily still like a typical, uh, film of where you have a bunch of male chauvinists I mean, you have that in the film, but it was checked. It was a knowledge It was put in this place and I like the way the handle that so I gotta give it to all the riders I gotta give it to will packer to rise you the whole cast the producers The soundtrack that was uh, I don't even say his name. His name is Brian taller This film is amazing guys. Now. I'm not finna say that this film is the top 10 best comedies of all time you know, I still think that like bridesmaids And the hangover the first one and you know, I can go down list or a funnier than this film But it is hilarious as hell Uh, I went in not knowing anything like I was expecting those to be funny. Um, I didn't go into this film Just I was worried by my man expectations were mediocre So of course your expectations has to do with how you finally feel about the film But I really did enjoy overall guys. Uh, I would not mind seeing again. I may even buy it I'm not gonna say that but you know, it's damn good. It's something where you know Months six months from now you're from now if it's on tv or streaming or something or tv I don't even watch tv like that no more. I don't I don't know anybody does Anyway, I was gonna say back in the day like if you just flip the new channels and this pops up on tv You know, would you watch it? You know, just and I would and uh, it's just a great film if I had to rate Uh, what man one out of a nine out of I mean out of a one out of ten I gave it away. I would easily give this a nine out of ten. Yes a nine out of ten But guys, that is just my opinion for what man want. What did you think? Did you like it? Did you hate it that I turn you on that I turn you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know down in the comment section below Let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing If you like this video, go ahead and give me the thumbs up if you don't this fine But you can still subscribe to my channel. You can also look me up on social media facebook instagram and twitter All that good stuff It's right there at the bottom of your screen and I made it very easy But providing a link to all that good stuff down in the description box below But guys, I just want to thank you again for tuning in to my opinion slash review Of what man wants starting to rush you p hinson and before you go, don't forget that my name is brennan Keith avery I'm dropping a spoiler after the credits and that's just my opinion Peace All right, so this is a spoiler part just real quick if you're watching this and you have not seen the movie I strongly suggest you turn it off now go see the movie and come back and watch this part So you have been warned but man when toraji was in her apartment building And she saw the white dude that was swole working out or whatever You know, they was having those exchanges and stuff like that When she was reading his mind and when she said when uh, he was like man I just wish he would push me against the the door right here and start kissing me And they went to the apartment or whatever and she went upstairs and he was all locked up in no SNM or whatever f-ing hilarious That was the part of this film where I was just like on the floor and my film is going off right now Sorry about that, but that was just hilarious to me That was the funniest part in the entire movie to me where I was just laughing So everybody started laughing at me laughing. I was just down laughing. So anyway guys, I hope you enjoyed the movie And I'll see you next time. Peace