If ever there was a movie equivalent of dad bod, Entourage is it.
That this retrograde “straight talk” managed to emerge on screen as a reasonably genial ensemble comedy speaks to the strength of its performers.
The film is depressing, sub-sitcom fodder that will dull whatever affection you may still harbor for these legendary actors.
It’s clear from the start that Think Like a Man would love to be a scathing riff on the genre of film perfected by Tyler Perry.
The show is a how-to guide for a totally impossible lifestyle, an aspirational fantasy with a perpetually receding horizon.
It was probably inevitable that creator Doug Ellin would shift the focus from the group to the individual.
Like everything else about Brooklyn Rules, Alec Baldwin’s alternately calm and brutal tough guy isn’t close to original.
The romantic setups and symbols of wealth and male domination in Entourage feel as though they were dreamt up in a lonely singles bar.