Think Like a Man Too 2014

Wesley Morris, Grantland: We're still being fed ensemble movies with a dozen good actors that don't let them do enough. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: If "Think Like a Man Too" was a man, he would be the world's worst date: humorless, shrill, speaking primarily in cliches ("what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!") and absolutely terrified of women. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: There's an overly familiar feel to all of it. We have been here before. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Although funnier and mercifully shorter than its 2002 predecessor, this latest collaboration between director Tim Story and comedian Kevin Hart is a formulaic and exhausting experience. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: Ditches the bizarre cult-of-personality trappings of the original, leaving only the blandest of ensemble relationship comedies. Read more

Barbara VanDenburgh, Arizona Republic: It's the PG-13 version of "The Hangover," and more than anything, that's just boring. Read more

Peter Keough, Boston Globe: True, the stereotypes remain in "Think Like a Man Too," but the actors get a chance to bring them to life, and I even found myself warming to, or at least occasionally laughing at, Hart's relentlessly clownish shtick. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The way this comedy has been edited by Peter S. Elliot, presumably at the urging of director Tim Story, the shots barely hold themselves for two or three seconds before slam-cutting away to a pushy reaction shot. Read more

Jeff Labrecque, Entertainment Weekly: Hart has to deliver a spectacular highlight every time he touches the ball for this movie to have any chance, and as a result, he takes some ill-advised shots. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Squanders the talents of its talented cast and is bound to test the patience of more discriminating audiences. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Hart hits such adrenaline-fueled extremes it's exhausting. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Freed from its ties to the source material - the first film was inspired by a Steve Harvey self-help book - Think Like a Man Too borrows liberally but in a definite PG-13 fashion from The Hangover, hitting on every required Vegas touchstone. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: It's everything the first movie wasn't: noisy, clumsy and derivative. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: This is the sort of film that only makes sense as a rental - with, perhaps, a couple of friends, and a very generously mixed pitcher of margaritas. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: A gathering of a large group of friends can be energetically fun or crazy loud. "Think Like a Man Too" is thankfully more the first of those, though it's not afraid to be the second one either. Read more

Anita Gates, New York Times: Things turn loud and desperate and stay that way, and the moral seems to be: Whatever you do, don't act like a man, because that means unjustified bravado, whoop-it-up antics and adolescent humor. Read more

Michael Sragow, Orange County Register: When it comes to wisdom about marriage - well, as Henny Youngman might have said, "Take this movie. Please." Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: You want eye-rolling moments? This movie will detach your corneas. Read more

Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com: Everything about this film smacks of laziness. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: The only reason I'd Think again is the return of Kevin Hart, who mines comic gold out of sloppy seconds. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's amateurish but gleeful. The zoom-zoom pacing and all-in performances make sure the jokes don't fall on dead air. Read more

Kevin C. Johnson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: The film keeps many of the same parts of the first one's winning formula, beginning with Hart himself. Read more

John Semley, Globe and Mail: It's intermittently fun, and funny, but after a while it's just so much swinging back and forth. We get it. You're up. You're down. You're back up again. Read more

Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's tamer than you would expect - and hope. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Unlike How to Train Your Dragon 2, which gives us characters older, wiser, and more experienced than they were in the previous movie, Too pretty much reprises all the conflicts from last time. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Think Like a Man Too might have been more accurately titled "Think Like the Most Hackneyed Rom-com Team Around.'' Read more

Michael Nordine, Village Voice: As bland and anonymous in practice as it is on paper. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Think Like a Man, Too is mostly uninspired and insipid, but it rallies, and builds up enough comic steam by the end that you might find yourself amused. Read more

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: There's nothing surprising about "Think Like a Man Too," but that predictability may well ensure its success with the audience that made the original such a huge hit. Read more