5.2
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
What Men Want (2019)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 5.2
Overview
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Neutral
Gender Swap: Yes
Race Swap: Yes
Overview
Magically able to hear what men are thinking, a sports agent uses her newfound ability to turn the tables on her overbearing male colleagues.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
The film's left-leaning rating is primarily due to its central critique of workplace sexism and male privilege, championing female empowerment and the breaking of the glass ceiling within a male-dominated corporate environment.
The movie demonstrates significant DEI by explicitly recasting a traditionally white male lead with a Black woman. Its narrative further reinforces this by directly critiquing traditional male identities and workplace sexism through the protagonist's experiences and her ability to hear men's thoughts.
Secondary
The film features Brandon, Ali's gay assistant, whose sexuality is an incidental aspect of his character. While his personal life is briefly touched upon through Ali's mind-reading ability, his identity is neither central to the plot nor depicted in a way that is overtly positive or negative, simply existing as part of the ensemble.
The film is a gender-flipped remake of "What Women Want" (2000). The protagonist role, originally a male character (Nick Marshall), is portrayed by a female character (Ali Davis) in this version, constituting a clear gender swap of the central character.
The protagonist of "What Men Want," Ali Davis, is a gender-flipped and race-swapped version of the original film's protagonist, Nick Marshall, who was portrayed as white.
The film 'What Men Want' does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative centers on cisgender characters and their experiences, with no elements pertaining to transgender identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
5.4
6.2
Critic Ratings
4.1
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