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Editor's note: Every week Mashable presents "Let’s Talk About," a look back at the biggest WTF stuff from the weekend’s new releases. If you haven’t seen the movie, be warned: This is a SPOILER MINEFIELD.
This week: Let's talk about Think Like a Man Too ...
“We're not going to any shows!â€
Thus declares Kevin Hart as best man Cedric in the Vegas-themed couples comedy Think Like A Man Too.
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Indeed there's even a specific rejection of Jersey Boys, whose film adaptation came out this same weekend (and which Think Like a Man Too crushed at the box office.) Little do Cedric and company know that their own movie will stop cold for a highly choreographed music break â€" a genuine slam-the-breaks stopper that left preview audiences howling.
The guys and the girls split up for twin bachelor/bachelorette parties. Hijinks and shenanigans ensue â€" at the pool, at the swanky restaurants and eventually at the strip clubs and Clark County jail. At one point the men (well, mostly the lead tornado of comedy Kevin Hart) realizes he needs to make some money fast, so he heads to the blackjack table. That's where he goes head-to-head with Randy the Dealer, the virtually wordless and steely eyed George Wallace, shot like a villain from a Sergio Leone picture. As the pair glare at one another and the cards are cut, the sequence checks in with what's going on with the ladies.
And those ladies include Regina Hall, Gabrielle Union, Meagan Good, Taraji P. Henson and Wendi McLendon-Covey. They all (except for Henson) have been slipped marijuana breath mints (just go with it) and when they roll up to the club they are feeling the beat. When the DJ calls out “we're gonna bring you back to the 90s!†it takes 0.000001 seconds for anyone over a certain age to recognize the beat of Bell Biv Devoe.
All the interpersonal drama between the ladies (and it's five different ladies with relationship woes, so there's lots to yap about) is put on ice for a few minutes as the movie shatters reality for a slickly cut music video. The women all look beautiful â€" and token white girl McLendon-Covey gets extra laughs as this is the first time we see her out of her glasses and twinset, and strutting confidently in a skin tight red dress. Well, minus a few high heel wobbles.
Just the other day a short extract from this sequence made it online. You'd be forgiven for thinking it was just a promo made especially for the Web. But, no, these are actually moments ripped straight from the film, where it brazenly leaves its story behind for a few moments of fun.
The clip even includes the “music video credit†that's seen in the movie. (Again, a throwback â€" there are still videos?) Does director Tim Story go by Tim Steezy to his friends? If anyone has his number please let me know.
But what you don't see in this short clip â€" in addition to more of the gals cuttin' up and acting silly with one another â€" is the slice and dice with Hart and Wallace at the gaming table. When the two sequences are cut back to back it really does build to some high stakes comedy, and concludes as one of the most crowdpleasing scenes of the summer.
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