History Film / ThinkLikeAMan

** Candace is constantly irritated and disappointed when Michael wants to spend ANY meaningful time with her mother. She seems to think that just her and her son should be Alex's only priority, despite their just beginning their relationship. She is even furious when she finds out that Alex has been in PHONE CONTACT with his mother and kicks him out of her life. The "logical" result of the film: Alex tries to distance himself from his mother and spends more time focusing exclusively on his relationship with Candace. And if the situations were reversed: Alex got furious every time Candace made her son a priority and demanded that she stop doing it, would the movie manage to pass this off as Michael being remotely right?

** Candace is constantly irritated and disappointed when Alex wants to spend ANY meaningful time with her mother. She seems to think that just her and her son should be Alex's only priority, despite their just beginning their relationship. She is even furious when she finds out that Alex has been in PHONE CONTACT with his mother and kicks him out of her life. The "logical" result of the film: Alex tries to distance himself from his mother and spends more time focusing exclusively on his relationship with Candace. And if the situations were reversed: Alex got furious every time Candace made her son a priority and demanded that she stop doing it, would the movie manage to pass this off as Alex being remotely right?

- Candace is constantly irritated and disappointed when Alex wants to spend ANY meaningful time with her mother. She seems to think that just her and her son should be Alex's only priority, despite their just beginning their relationship. She is even furious when she finds out that Alex has been in PHONE CONTACT with his mother and kicks him out of her life. The "logical" result of the film: Alex tries to distance himself from his mother and spends more time focusing exclusively on his relationship with Candace. And if the situations were reversed: Alex got furious every time Candace made her son a priority and demanded that she stop doing it, would the movie manage to pass this off as Alex being remotely right?
- It's repeatedly implied that Cedric's estranged wife Gail is physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive to him and that this is the very reason he's leaving her. But the entire scenario is played for laughs with his friends constantly ridiculing him about it, and at the end of the movie, he goes back to her.

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: It's repeatedly implied that Cedric's estranged wife Gail is physically, emotionally, and verbally abusive to him and that this is the very reason he's leaving her. But the entire scenario is played for laughs with his friends constantly ridiculing him about it, and at the end of the movie, he goes back to her.

* ActorAllusion: When discussing the film "For Colored Girls", Michael Ealy's character declares, "I HATE that movie! That's the one where Janet Jackson's husband gave her AIDS and some crazy guy threw his kids out the window!" Sure enough, Ealy played said "crazy guy".