Sure, the film has caddish men and pushy women, but they have a civility that sets them apart from the rest of the contemporary comedy scenes. It's not just the absence of crudity that makes this a pleasant film it's that at times it has respect for the adults absent in comedies of late. The episodes are sometimes funny and all devoid of scatological surprises as have come to be common in modern male-centered Hangover and Bridesmaids comedies. Such tips as making a suitor wait for 90 days before sex and increasing standards are among the many strategies that help the women deal with intractable male slacking and avoidance. The ladies have a secret weapon to win the engagement ring prize-the book, Act Like a Woman, Think Like a Man, promoted by a smarmy talk show host played by Harvey himself.
The film has arranged the tale in episodes that feature each type, e.g., mama's boy, non-committer, and the player. The boys, really grown men but film prefers to keep them like adolescents for as long as possible, have varying degrees of difficulties with their women. Now Think Like a Man, based on Steve Harvey's best-selling Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, takes the topic for a modern spin, and a pleasant one at times, at other times just too long. "No one will ever win the battle of the sexes there's too much fraternizing with the enemy." Henry Kissinger From early literature, at the very least Chaucer, the war between the sexes has been a topic of the best writers, notably Shakespeare in his Taming of the Shrew, among others.
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