So much average

How sad is this?

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

A great movie for entertainment purposes, you obviously dont have to follow the relationship guidelines that she talks about in the movie. Although, it was all for fun and laughs, some of the tips and advice she gives is actually worth listening to.

For me, I didn't see anyone or anything here but the delicious Gabrielle M. Union. It's not the idea that this movie is entirely not my taste, also it wasn't basically an entire movie for God's sake! I believe it was some TV flick, or TV 2 episodes with No attraction at all. Not to mention its stars as well. Suffice it to say the magical 2 names : (Morris Chestnut) and (Vivica A. Fox)…Feel the pain already ??!! Now here you are 2 leads that can play indeed (play Hell cleverly !). The first one is too unbearable like someone heavy setting happily on your chest, and the second just sucking out the remaining air in the same time ! Specifically whenever (Chestnut) is on-screen, in here or at any other work, I feel a waterfall of silliness bursts into my house to sink me and anyone watching! Did you see his photo on the movie's poster : DISASTROUS !Plus, this script wasn't as different as it wanted. The comedy was nonexistent or rather DEAD ! And the direction made it really tasteless. Actually the whole deal fails to make you interested (I left the movie at its first half hour then forced myself to rerun the rented videotape to complete it !). I hated the most a scene in which the classy businesswoman (played by Vivica A. Fox) walks at poor apartments and complains – to the screen ! – about how all the black people raise their voice in inappropriate way !?? Aside from Fox's too ridiculous, too provocative way at delivering those lines, I got extremely bugged out of this scene's message; I mean was it a gentle satire so the black people must keep their voices down (in their homes!?), or was it just a way to make clear how Arrogant character like Fox's is ?! To tell you the truth; for most of the time I felt that the movie's makers are the actual arrogant ones!Simply the success of (Waiting to Exhale) in (1995) launched a long series of black movies after (mostly romantic comedies or movies with social commentary) that deal with black people, having a cast of black actors. Few were good, and many were horrible. I don't need to clarify to what category (2 Can Play That Game) may belong ! These movies deal with the problems or the concerns of the American black community's middle or upper class ONLY. Perhaps as a late reaction to the way the black character always has been portrayed for years and years in Hollywood, or a way to make these movies in the contemporary Hollywood anyhow ?! So for a Blaxploitation fan this is maybe the closest you can get to The Anti-Blaxploitation ! Or maybe the most "white" black movie, and I do mean it in a bad way. My Love (Morris Chestnut) did another crime to humanity in the same year, from the same trend, named (The Brothers) which was like a manly version of (Waiting to Exhale) yet awful and unwatchable.Still the only watchable, amusing, and meaningful thing in this short dud is one hell of an intro for the SEXY Gabrielle Union walking unforgettably in tight outrageous red dress (she's the one who makes it outrageous I can tell you that !) while the dear camera is shooting her – in slow motion – from toes to head to observe how hot she is and how naked her navel too ! At that point I, of course with all the male viewers that got the chance to watch the movie on video; woke up, rejoiced, then pressed "rewind" to enjoy this rare moment again AND to assure that IT'S the same movie that I was watching ! Anyhow, Nothing of this heat wave continued, while Nothing of the whole movie eventually was as very good as it. Damn, even Gabrielle Union herself wasn't given fair screen time either ! All in all I think that one of the Board's messages, here on the IMDb, said it right : "Did anyone like this movie???" Enough commenting !

Personally, I didn't think much of this film. The way that a lot of the film came across - as a monologue by the main character - didn't make the story believable, and took away from the enjoyment from the film, as it made it quite irritating as the scene would be good, and then interrupted by her talking to the camera.I also didn't think a lot of the cast, and I think that the characters were too irritating to be likable, especially in a story like this. Though I didn't like their characters, two actors that I liked were Anthony Anderson, as he is a strong favourite of mine, and is a brilliant actor, and Mo'Nique, who did very well in her role.Over all, I don't think I would recommend this film to people, and if I was given the opportunity to watch it again, I think I'd turn it down.

Here's a romantic comedy that doesn't devolve into utter stupidity or becomed mired in inanity. It moves along at a nice pace, and though it's basically a silly movie, that's entirely forgivable since it never takes itself seriously. The plot line is wafer thin in that it tracks the breakup of two affluent African Americans, but what is very funny is the strategizing back and forth; Vivica Fox of course has, or thinks she has, all the right steps in playing this game, but Anthony Anderson as the adviser to Fox's boyfriend, helps him counter a number of her moves. The fact that Fox's character speaks directly to the character works as a plot device, it moves things along and really gives insights into the character that, inasmuch as she is always scheming whether with her boyfriends or girlfriends, is the only way we'd get that info. The fact that this is a "black" movie is almost entirely irrelevant--there are a couple of scenes where Anderson and Chestnut are going back and forth with terms like "preach it" from what sounds like a black church meeting, but that just adds to the charm, it avoids all those awful ghetto cliches that seem to infuse Martin Lawrence style movies. The movie is kind of a female version of a terrible Eddie Murphy vehicle from a decade ago called "Boomerang" about a womanizing ad executive, who has certain tactics when dealing with women. But it avoids the nasty aspects and plain stupidity of that movie. This one isn't going to win any awards, but its a pleasant time, and everyone knows how what's going to happen in the end, the fun is watching the two go back and forth with their silly tactics--one of the funnier scenes involves some half baked philosophizing about "transferrence of energy." This one is worth the time.