Hilarity, love and self-knowledge ensued.
Even with the gender flip, this reimagining doesnt quite evade the by-the-numbers rhythms reboots so often have.
SWM is an office packed with SWMs who love backslapping, glad-handing and clandestine poker games.
Henson brings an amiable verve to Ali, flawed but rightly furious at the hand SWM deals her.
The original Shaft, Richard Roundtree, 76, portrays Alis dad, Skip.
When she gets shafted at the latest partnership announcement, Ali heads to his boxing gym.
The scene of father and daughter sparring it out is a sweet touch.
Is she a true clairvoyant or a weed-dealing charlatan and what was in that tea she serves them?
Hard to say, but when Ali wakes up, she can read men’s minds.
With great power comes a great opportunity to get a leg up.
Indeed, it shares DNA with another, wiser comedy:Jerry Maguire.
Like Jerry, Ali is right and wrong.
After a lot of lunacy (and one seriously blown-up wedding), the real question gets asked.
And it requires a certain maturity for her to answer: What doesshewant?
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