Release dates
May 7, 2019
73 months agoVOD / Blu-ray / DVD
Released
What Men Want release date
The movie What Men Want is already released on Cinema, VOD, Blu-ray and DVD in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 11 reviews, What Men Want gets an average review score of 55
“What Men Want” is a gender-swapped remake of “What Women Want,” the 2000 Nancy Meyers film starring Mel Gibson as an arrogant ad exec who learns some important lessons about empathy and humility—and parenting—when given the ability to hear women’s thoughts.
2256d ago
The story is a lot harder on its female protagonist than the 2000 film was on its male equivalent. This makes a depressing amount of sense, given what women are up against in most workplaces. Henson’s Ali plays both the dramatic encounters and the slapstick opportunities for higher stakes than Gibson ever did.
2256d ago
This romp of a remake allows for broad comic moments while also addressing real issues faced by women in the workplace
2256d ago
What Men Want gender swaps and dumbs down an already dumb Mel Gibson hit
2256d ago
In a gender-flipped remake, Taraji P. Henson is a sports agent who reads her male coworkers' minds and discovers that (surprise) they're still jerks.
2256d ago
Taraji P. Henson stars as a formidable sports agent who attempts to achieve her career goals with the help of mysterious psychic powers in Adam Shankman’s updated workplace comedy.
2256d ago
Confusingly, the film rejects the commonplace notion that women actually have a decent grasp of what men think.
2256d ago
Taraji P. Henson comes out swinging in this female-centric update of the 2000 Mel Gibson rom-com ‘What Women Want,’ but the cliché-ridden film can’t go the distance
2256d ago
Henson aside, the most memorable performance comes from musician Erykah Badu in the smallish role of a trippy, weed-dealing psychic seemingly from another planet. Coiffed in a natural mane of auburn hair and sporting curled fingernails resembling delicate talons, Badu isn’t onscreen for very long, but in her allotted minutes, she appears to be having the time of her life.
2256d ago
While What Men Want starts off as a stinging critique, it undermines that message with one of Hollywood’s favorite idiotic subplots.
2256d ago
What do men want? Speaking for the XY chromosome’d among us, some nuance would be nice.
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