![]() ![]() The direction of those should-be telepathic punch lines is actually a delicate art we shouldn’t be able to tell that it was recorded separately, on a different day, with a different mood, by one’s self in a recording booth. ![]() The voice-over effect that carries this premise is a shaky one, and some of the men Ali eavesdrops on are better at delivering it than others. A fight breaks out on the dance floor, Ali is knocked out, and when she comes to she can hear men’s thoughts (starting with the imperceptibly under-the-influence doctor looking after her). Dejected, she goes to her friend’s bachelorette party, where they have hired a questionable psychic (Erykah Badu) who gives her some freaky tea and sends her on her way to the club. But the honor is instead bestowed to an agent her junior, through what appears to be some kind of shadowy boy’s-club poker-night loyalty that she is not privy to. Despite being the only woman in the room, she is pretty sure she’s on the cusp of being made partner at her agency. Henson plays Ali, an alpha woman and daughter of a boxing coach who has grown up to be a powerhouse sports agent in Atlanta with a fancy loft, a loyal lap dog of an assistant (Josh Brener) and an anemic love life. But since it’s determined to be a romantic comedy, at least tangentially, in the vein of the 2000 Nancy Meyers film What Women Want (a determination that is itself bizarre), What Men Want is a wildly uneven stretch of a movie that’s more of a flail than a romp. ![]() The premise of a woman - particularly a woman working in the macho world of a sports agency, as What Men Want’s heroine does - given the gift to see inside the minds of men should, on paper at least, be a radical feminist They Live or a hallucinatory nightmare à la Blue Velvet. Henson and Max Greenfield in What Men Want. ![]()
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