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What Men Want is set to premiere January 11, 2019, and we can't wait to watch Erykah and Taraji's comedic timing on the big screen. This will be Erykah's first role since she played Turquoise in 2016 's The Land.
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A few of her co-stars include Mark Cuban, Shaquille O'Neal, Grant Hill and Tracy Morgan who plays Taraji's quirky client in the movie. Shenanigans ensue and her new powers help her regain her confidence. Henson Let us know what you think in the comments below. "Why don't we have some tea?" After Badu pours Taraji's character some of the special brew made with jasmine tea laced with weed, peyote and crack and she has a freak accident at a nightclub, Taraji now possesses the ability to hear men's inner thoughts. Check out the official What Men Want trailer starring Taraji P. "I can help you connect with men," Badu says to Henson at one point in the What Men Want trailer. A clear reflection of the state of women in the workplace trying to break the glass ceiling, Taraji seeks the help of her friends who recommend she sees a mystic psychic. Henson and play a pivotal role in the new Will Packer-produced film What Men Want. The movie is a flip of the 2000 Mel Gibson rom-com What Women Want. In the updated version, Taraji plays a struggling sports agent just trying to make partner in an all-male agency. The movie covers all its bases, determined to give every segment of the audience what it wants, with dubious success.Erykah Badu is brewing up something hilarious for her next movie role. The gender politics of “What Men Want” only sometimes play as retrograde, though. Memo to working women: Don’t be ball busters, or else. The film insists that Ali, like Gibson’s ad man, receive her comeuppance: She learns to respect her gay assistant (Josh Brener) and to be less selfish in her career and in bed. “What Men Want” doesn’t stick to that conceit, however, despite such barbed moments as when Nick says aloud that he would fire Ali if he didn’t fear a #MeToo outcry. If the original delivered payback to a sexist, the new film ought to let a victim of sexism turn the tables. I will be really grateful if you could suggest similar movies that can help me in self-improvement.' - Fahad, Pakistan Todays post is different from usual. After reading the comment, I watched the movie and really felt a positive change in me. But Ali is a bad communicator, and one lesson the movie deigns to teach her is to listen more carefully. 'Celes, I was reading one of your articles and noticed a reader mentioning the movie Yes Man in his comment. Presumably Ali’s ability to hear their thoughts would make that charade easier. Because the star player’s father (Tracy Morgan) doesn’t trust a woman without a family, Ali tries to pass off a one-night stand and his son (Aldis Hodge and Auston Moore) as her husband and child. While “What Men Want” starts off as a stinging critique, it undermines that message with one of Hollywood’s favorite idiotic subplots. Part of the message, of course, is that it doesn’t take a mind reader to see that Ali’s colleagues - who court a star African-American basketball player (Shane Paul McGhie) with a racist video filled with bling and women - are complete boneheads, working in a frat house dressed up as an office. Her boss, Nick (Brian Bosworth), tells her, “You’re doing great in your lane.”īut thanks to either a knock on the head or the laced tea given to her by a psychic (Erykah Badu), Ali begins to hear what men are thinking, the better to get sweet, sweet revenge. Henson), who works at a boy’s club of a company and is repeatedly passed over for partner status. This time, the mind reader is an Atlanta sports agent, Ali (Taraji P. Another is a taste for Fiji water, an object of product placement so frequent that you worry for a drought in the South Pacific.ĭirected by Adam Shankman, this comedy flips the script on Nancy Meyers’s “What Women Want” (2000), in which a Chicago chauvinist (Mel Gibson) gets his comeuppance after gaining the power to hear women’s thoughts. One is that they won’t tolerate a satire of workplace sexism if it doesn’t sometimes put the woman in her place. “What Men Want” presumes a lot of things about its viewers.