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WHAT MEN WANT **
Dir: Adam Shankman (15, 110 mins)
A remake of the 2000 Mel Gibson comedy What Women Want, where a chauvinist man gets access to the thoughts inside female minds after he hits his head. This flips genders and has Taraji P. Henson hearing men’s innermost thoughts, using them to her advantage. Henson plays a sports agent passed over for a promotion by other men in her firm. Frustrated, she goes for a night out, bangs her head in the midst of drunken revelry and awakens with her new-found gift. Now she can hear what her board members really think about her, along with assistant Josh Brener, potential boyfriend Aldis Hodge and any number of random misogynists. This high-concept recalibration could, amidst the #MeToo era, have said a lot more than this sporadically entertaining if limp time-passer. Henson gives her all but the script gives her little more than to rehash her Girl’s Night character, while Tracy Morgan manages to get some surreal zingers in amidst cameos from Richard Roundtree, Erykah Badu and Shaquille O’Neal. Foulmouthed and fitfully funny, but could have been much more. Opens Mar 15