So this afternoon I took myself to the movies. The movie for today was “Think Like A Man” a
story that illustrates the Steve Harvey book of the same name.
They’ve got the
playbook. The story of how five
women discover Steve Harvey’s book and use it as a How To remedy to make new
relationships happen and old relationship work.
It’s a mainly ,black ensemble cast romantic comedy that follows the stories
of five couples, all the while referring back to chapters in Steve Harvey’s
book.
I agree with other reviews which stated ‘It ran like an extended
commercial for the book”. Having said
that I do enjoy a dopey romantic comedy once in a while and it DID make me
laugh. The film had some beautiful black
men (see Michael Ealy) and even the return of Morris Chestnut which I was
surprised as I had not seen him since Two Can Play at That Game.
It’s a fun movie, but if you’re strapped for cash you can
wait for DVD or pick up a bootleg of it.
SIDENOTE: I actually
MET Steve Harvey. About two years ago I
traveled by flight to Detroit
and he was sitting in first class on the same flight as me. I saw him and his entourage afterwards at the baggage carousel. I wasn’t sure if it was him, so I double-checked by asking the skycap, It was
him and I went over and his got his autograph since I do listen to his morning
show on WBLS from time to time.
Ideally, having a looser structure based around life lessons (of a sort) would allow the self-help rom-com to slip out of the boy-meets-girl, loses-girl, gets-girl grind, but here it just serves to multiply the predictability. The movie lines up a pretty good cast and, when it can gain some real momentum away from Harvey’s book, it can be a fairly decent, if still underwhelming, picture. But that doesn’t happen often enough. Good review Jude.
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