Friday, June 20th, 2014įilm critic Richard Crouse gives ‘Jersey Boys’ two stars while ‘Think Like a Man Too’ gets three stars. Posted in CP24, Film Review, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Richard’s CP42 weekend reviews of “Jersey Boys” and “Think Like a Man Too”! RICHARD’S REVIEWS FOR JW “CANADA AM” HOST Marci Ien. Tags: Christopher Walken, Clint Eastwood, CP24, Gabrielle Union, George Lagogianes, Jersey Boys, John Lloyd Young, Kevin Hart, La La Anthony, Meagan Good, Michael Ealy, Michael Lomenda, Regina Hall, Romany Malco, Think Like A Man Too, Vincent Piazza Richard’s CP42 weekend reviews of “Jersey Boys” and “Think Like a Man Too” with George Lagogianes! Posted in Film Review | Comments Off on WATCH RICHARD’S CTV NEWSCHANNEL MOVIE REVIEWS ALL WEEKEND! Richard’s CP42 weekend reviews of “Jersey Boys” and “Think Like a Man Too”! Friday, June 20th, 2014 Tags: Christopher Walken, Clint Eastwood, CTV NewsChannel, Gabrielle Union, Guy Pearce, Jersey Boys, John Lloyd Young, Kevin Hart, Meagan Good, Michael Ealy, Michael Lomenda, Robert Pattinson, Romany Malco, The Rover, Think Like A Man Too, Vincent Piazza Want to know how to spend your theatre-going dollars this weekend? Richard’s CTV NewsChannel reviews for ‘Jersey Boys’ (two stars), ‘Think Like a Man Too’ (three stars) and ‘The Rover’ (three stars) run all weekend! Tune in and check them out! The characters aren’t exactly dramatic ground-breakers, but at least they’re being themselves.Īnd it’s not just Think Like a Man Too that’s challenging those stereotypes: just as the movie hits theaters, the new trailer for star Kevin Hart’s upcoming project The Wedding Ringer dropped.Posts Tagged ‘Think Like A Man Too’ WATCH RICHARD’S CTV NEWSCHANNEL MOVIE REVIEWS ALL WEEKEND! Friday, June 20th, 2014 Nobody has to pretend to be what they’re not, because the movie doesn’t separate the way the men act or think from the way the women act or think, which means there wouldn’t be anything to pretend even if they wanted to. Further, admitting that they want those things doesn’t stop the characters from finding happiness. Pretty much every character, regardless of gender, wants the same thing: a crazy bachelor(ette) party a fun night with friends a relationship that can move to the next level a beautiful wedding for the couple that brought them there. In fact, when it jettisons the ‘act like a lady/think like a man’ dichotomy in favor of uncomplicated Vegas silliness, its plot takes a fairly egalitarian turn. Too is hardly a radical feminist rallying cry - it’s still a marriage plot centered around a low-stakes battle of the sexes about which group can throw a better party - but it’s also in some ways a rebuttal of the very idea of the movie and book that allowed it to exist. If your starting point is with actual people in actual relationships, it’s harder to lump them all together into shallow groups. They’re also mostly coupled off, no longer trying to game the system in the service of one-sided love. But even though the characters don’t completely shed their stereotypical slots - the clueless one, the irresponsible one, the shrew, the player - the question of thinking like the more general stereotype of Man or Woman ends up being pretty much irrelevant.Īfter all, the fact that it’s a sequel means the characters all start out with personalities that audiences have already spent about two hours getting to know. ![]() The cutesy pun on “2” and “Too” in the film’s title might be taken to imply that men and women alike, this time around, are thinking like men. Each couple pursues its dispute for the first act, gets separated in the second and apologizes and nuzzles in the third. In its stead we get a surfeit of nothing. The sequel drops that notion the book isn’t mentioned, and Harvey shows up only as the face on a Family Feud slot machine. Harvey’s book spurred the plot of the first movie: the women read it, learning how their beaux thought, and then the men read it too, like the advance answers to a pop quiz. The movie’s sequel, arriving in theaters today, has been getting reviews that indicate it’s not likely to capture the box-office magic of its predecessor (it’s got a mere 22% fresh rating at Rotten Tomatoes) - but it’s also unlikely to earn the same degree of gender-politics criticism.Īs TIME’s Richard Corliss put it in his review of the movie:
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