Movie Review-----THINK LIKE A MAN

THINK LIKE A MAN is what I affectionately now call a "Before Noon Movie". Now in most cinemas across the country, you can see a first run film before 12pm for the bargain price of $5.00. I reserve that time to see movies that I normally don't have incredibly high hopes for, but have a desire to see on the Big Screen. When I arrived in NYC yesterday afternoon, it was in the middle of heavy rain that started shortly before I landed and didn't end until the wee hours of this morning. With nothing else to do last night, I walked a few blocks from my hotel and thought I'd see a movie. There were several choices but THINK LIKE A MAN appealed to me since I am a huge Tyler Perry fan and this looked to be in that same vein. So I paid the ridiculous sum of $14.00 to see a movie that when it ended, I wished I had saved as a "Before Noon Movie". THINK LIKE A MAN is very loosely based on a self-help book that Steve Harvey wrote called ACT LIKE A LADY, THINK LIKE A MAN. It was a huge bestseller and it looks like the movie is set to be an enormous hit as well, but for me, it didn't really do anything new. It was just another one of those "beautiful people meet cute, fall in love, break up, and end up engaged or reconciled at the end" movies. I don't know what I expected, but it seems that my expectations were a wee bit high. Steve Harvey plays himself in the film and he is seen on a fictional talk show spouting his wisdom in between vignettes that introduce us to the featured players in the film. You have your Player, your Divorced Player, your Married Man, your Mama's Boy, and your Dreamer. By the end, all of them have found their happily ever after. There is one enormous reason to see THINK LIKE A MAN and that is Kevin Hart. I am not familiar with his standup, which he is primarily known for. But I intend to become familiar with it after thoroughly enjoying his performance in this movie. He is hilarious and the movie dips when he's not on screen. This man needs to lead his own movie and soon!!!! All in all, it was a perfectly pleasant way to spend a rainy evening in New York City, and considering that the choices were between this one and THE THREE STOOGES, I probably chose correctly.