--- title: REVIEW: Think Like A Man Too Suffers From Sequelitis description: This sequel squanders the modest appeal of its predecessor, and the sexy charms of its large cast, on a frantic trip through Vegas canonical: https://time.com/2901772/review-think-like-a-man-too-dont/ author: Richard Corliss article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-20T01:52:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:31:19.996Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Review: Think Like A Man Too Is A Non-core With A Raw Case of Sequelitis og:description: This sequel squanders the modest appeal of its predecessor, and the sexy charms of its large cast, on a frantic trip through Vegas og:url: https://time.com/2901772/review-think-like-a-man-too-dont/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt928672853f307efc/6986987a169ab0631f279fe2/think-like-a-man-too.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1000 og:image:height: 563 og:image:alt: THINK LIKE A MAN TOO, Kevin Hart, 2014. ph: Matt Kennedy/©Screen Gems/Courtesy Everett Collection og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Review: Think Like A Man Too Is A Non-core With A Raw Case of Sequelitis twitter:description: This sequel squanders the modest appeal of its predecessor, and the sexy charms of its large cast, on a frantic trip through Vegas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt928672853f307efc/6986987a169ab0631f279fe2/think-like-a-man-too.jpg?branch=production&width=1000&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # REVIEW: _Think Like a Man Too_ — Don't > Sponsored content. 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This is Vegas, guys — yet they’re acting less like a wild entourage and more like a “non_–_tourage.” _Think Like a Man Too_, the inevitable followup to the 2012 rom-com based on Steve Harvey’s how-to-love book, suffers from a crippling case of sequelitis. Shipping the cast of the original film to Las Vegas for a co-ed do-over of _The Hangover_, the movie spends a frantic 24 hours in the R-rated Fun Capital of the World with no effect but to exhaust itself and its viewers. And Hart, who has spurted to stardom since the first film, still hasn’t proved he can find a movie role as congenial as the feisty-friendly personality he displays in his standup comedy. **(READ: Corliss’s** [**review of** **_Think Like a Man_**](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/04/19/think-like-a-man-men-and-women-behaving-bedly/%20)**)** Harvey, who also used to do standup, has a schedule that would make James Franco look like a slouch. He hosts three daily programs: a morning radio show, an afternoon TV talk show and _Family Feud_ in the evening. Except for Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry, he is probably the most successful current African-American performer-entrepreneur. And in his spare time he wrote the 2008 best-seller _Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man_, a relationship manual with a light comic touch. The book’s biggest laugh for its women readers was that a man who’s been married three times and divorced twice was qualified to give them romantic advice. But it sold a couple million copies and generated an amiable movie comedy. _Think Like a Man_ created characters based on the male and female types Harvey outlined, while serving as a welcome showcase for a dozen or so attractive actors, most of them of color, who too rarely got prominent film roles. Written by Keith Merryman and David A. Newman and directed by Tim Story, the movie cost just $12 million to produce and earned $91 million at the domestic box office. Ergo, _Too_, with the same cast and creative team. **(READ: Belinda Luscombe talks with** [**Steve Harvey on** **_Think Like a Man_**](http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1878059,00.html)**)** The gang has come to Vegas for the wedding of Candace (Regina Hall), a foxy single mom, and Michael (Terrence J), whose bossy mother Loretta (Jenifer Lewis) is determined to set the agenda and spoil the weekend. Each of the other couples has one big issue to resolve before the ceremony. Aspiring chef Dominic (Michael Ealy) and budding business tycoon Lauren (Taraji P. Henson) must sort out their career plans. Zeke (Romany Malco) has to convince Mya (Meagan Good) that his horndog days are over. Jeremy (Jerry Ferrara) seems resistant to starting a family with his wife Kristen (Gabrielle Union). Bennett (Gary Owen) and Tish (Wendi McLendon-Covey) are in the mix to show how dorky and clueless white folks can be. In this “comedy,” the only one who even tries to be funny is Hart, as a man still resentful of his termagant spouse Gail — or, as his cell phone ID’s her, Gailzilla. (“Gail and I were happy for 22 years,” Hart’s Cedric recalls. “Then we met each other.”) Mistakenly named best man in the movie’s single decent sight gag, Cedric is the little guy with a big complex, long on crazy ideas but short on sense. He thinks his Caesars Palace suite — in which he executes a much belated gloss on Tom Cruise’s _Risky Business_ dance — costs $4,000 a night, then learns the tab is $40,000\. That cues the last hour of aimless agitation. **(READ: Corliss on** [**Kevin Hart’s breakout movie** **_Ride Along_**](http://entertainment.time.com/2014/01/15/ride-along-kevin-hart-small-cop/%20)**)** 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 sequel drops that notion; the book isn’t mentioned, and Harvey shows up only as the face on a _Family Feud_ slot machine. In its stead we get a surfeit of nothing. Each couple pursues its dispute for the first act, gets separated in the second and apologizes and nuzzles in the third. You might expect that at least one character would make a play for someone else’s partner, but everyone is emotionally stoop-shouldered under the burden of being nice. The movie also squanders its one chance for some redeeming prurient interest, when the guys enter an amateur striptease contest to raise the money for Cedric’s hotel bill, and the women happen to be in the audience. Alas, a fight breaks out before any of the handsome gents can get down to his G string; someone must have remembered this is a PG-13 film, which promptly poops on the promised party. To see acres more male flesh, watch the next season of _Dancing With the Stars_. **(READ:** [**This year’s winners on** **_Dancing With the Stars_**](http://time.com/107008/recap-dancing-with-the-stars-watch-and-the-winner-is/)**)** Not helped much by guest appearance from Drake, Dennis Haysbert, Kelsey Grammer and five-division boxing champion Floyd Mayweather, _Think Like a Man Too_ grinds the modestly engaging clichés of the first film into mulch. Cedric was right about his “non-tourage”: _Too_ takes an attractive acting ensemble and makes it a non-semble. 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