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Summary: The best....
Review: I'm not into chick flicks but this movie along with the soundtrack is timeless "And that's why i wont dance, merci boko." Not sure how to spell it, LOL. Get both the DVD and the Soundtrack if you are looking for timeless classy music.
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Summary: Enough for eveyone!
Review: There was so much in this movie for everyone. Very underated, but extemely good film.
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Summary: Mel Gibson-Wild on the Set
Review: The original concept was interesting. (By a freak of blow-dryers and bath-bubbles, a male chauvinist brat [normal guy] gains the ability to hear all women's thoughts.) Add Mel Gibson to the film; and you've electrified an instant classic.
Almost every other line is a laugh your heart out joke; and every character in the film is acted to the hilt. It's enough to make you swear Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, and probably the entire cast and crew of this film ought to be a awarded a perscription for Riddlin.
In short: if this film can't make you smile and laugh, You're Dead.
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Summary: Entertaining but not among the best of its genre.
Review: It's not a bad film this, but not as good as Mel Gibson usually delivers. It's just about funny and romantic enough to leave you satisfied, but there could have been more interesting mileage to be had from the film's hook, about a guy who discovers he can hear womens' thoughts; moreover, the chemistry between Gibson and Helen Hunt works, but it doesn't really sparkle.(Okay, I admit my main motivation for renting this film was that it features the heavenly Marisa Tomei, though alas she appears for all of about three scenes.)
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Summary: What Women Want. . . Or Don't Want
Review: Mel Gibson is a pretty funny guy. He plays the remarkably non-politically correct, perma-bachelor Nick Marshall. Nick feels betrayed by his boss, played by Alan Alda, and threatened by Darcy McGuire, played by Helen Hunt. Darcy is hired to fill the position of creative director at an advertising firm. This job was, in Nick's mind, his for the taking. Now here's the twist. Nick, while intoxicated, was trying on pantyhose and a waxing his legs in an effort to get in to the minds of women. While doing this, he fell into the tub while holding a hairdryer. After he woke, he could hear the inner-most thoughts of all females. Be it a little girl, adult woman, and even a French poodle. This gives him the ability to steal the ideas straight out of the heads of women. He uses this to his advantage (after the shock of this "gift" wears off). But, while he was using this gift for all the wrong reasons, he develops a conscience. This movie is rather amusing. Mr. Gibson is quite a capable actor. He works remarkably well in the romantic comedy genre. This movie was a pleasant surprise. epc
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Summary: I hated, hated, hated this movie. Hated.
Review: I have never actually been angry with a movie before, but this one did it. I saw it in the theaters, and it put me in a bad mood for days. Obviously it did not have this effect on some of you, maybe even most of you, and my reviewer rating will take a serious hit from this.. but I want to put out the warning to those people who read the reviews, that if you are ever uneasy about Hollywood's attitudes about women, you'd better stay far away from this movie. I found this movie incredibly insulting, in the way it portrayed every single female character, in the jokes, in the plot, and in the conclusion - pretty much beginning to end. I didn't go in looking for trouble, but it found me - I saw it in the theaters with a girlfriend looking for some light escapism and got a nasty reminder of just how dumb, useless, and incapable Hollywood thinks I am as a woman. This is present in some small degree in most every Hollywood romance, but it is obvious, blatant, rampant in this one. You know the premise. So, what do the women in this movie think about? Mel Gibson. Constantly. Their lives are practically centered around him. They have nothing better to think about, whether it's on the job or on the street. They are shallow. They are needy. Their careers are open to the manipulations of Mel Gibson's character, but we forgive him, because he is cute and much more important than anyone else. What does Mel Gibson learn about women? They sure do lots of dumb things, don't they? Funny! It sure is hard to look pretty all the time! Maybe Mel will deign to talk to them and make their lives worthwhile! What am I doing surfing the internet when I could be applying mascara and waxing my legs! What do I need a job for, anyway, when I could have a handsome boyfriend instead! Excuse me while I throw up. This movie is not funny, and manages to be incredibly derivative of every successful romantic comedy without learning a thing from any of them. The leads are not compelling, as a couple or seperately. Mel Gibson's character is an ...at the start, and even more of an ... at the finish, even though we're supposed to believe he is enlightened for understanding how much women want him. Gee, thanks Mel. Are you gonna stop manipulating every girl in sight now? Can Marisa Tomei have her dignity back? Can Helen Hunt have her job back? This probably won't bother a lot of you, so don't worry about it. It's the same old thing, only moreso. It's got eye candy, and requires no thought whatsoever. Keep giving Hollywood your money. But some of you know what I'm talking about, and to them I stress: unless you're hankering to get your mad on, skip this one.
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Summary: What a wonderful movie!
Review: The plot is all about Nick(Mel Gibson--who has never thought about how women think) has an adventure into the women's mind. Nicky used to be a man's man (a man who is admired by other men, and who never think about how women feel). Somehow, he changes after obtainning a kind of skill that he can listen what women think). Nicky works for an ad agency. He thought he would be promoted. However, his boss is concerned that the domination of the maket is all about women. Therefore, Darcy (Halen Hunt) was hired to be a creative director instead of him since she is a woman. After he got that special skill, he trys to get rid of Darcy. (Indeed, he wants to be a creative director) However, the more he learns about her, the more he loves her and understands her. There are 3 subplots in the movies--about his love life with Darcy, his daugther(Alex), and a girl (Erin) who is always sad and upset.
These plots are all good. Especially, the last one (about Erin) reminds me that I used to be like her. If you have time, this is a good movie. It's worth watching.
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Summary: Funny and Frivolous
Review: A one-joke movie, but in the hands of Mel Gibson, a very enjoyable joke. Mel gets the power to read women's minds, and uses it to romantically pursue and professionally undermine the perky-as-usual Helen Hunt. Pure entertaining fluff.
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Summary: Excellent, perfect, fabulous !!! A must !!!
Review: Another great performance from Mel Gibson. Every split second of this movie has to be enjoyed, from start to finish. It is so good I got completely absorbed in it and could not suspend my attention at all !!! First of all, the cast is fantastic, especially Mel Gibson and Helen Hunter, both of them at their very best, absolutely fabulous !!! Helen Hunt is really perfect in the role of the highly successful career woman, yet so very inspiring, so very sincere, so very deeply feminine, and so moving. Then all the emotion, all the ideas contained in this movie are absolutely great and to the point. Finally, the story itself is interesting. The whole movie is really nice entertainment. It is also fast-paced, very dense, full of humor, and it is also a movie about truth versus illusion, truth against wrong. On top of all that, it is also a very deep and very rich movie, and it raises plenty of questions, and not only the easy "Are women really superior to men ?". The beginning of the movie is great, with Nick (Mel Gibson) born and raised in Las Vegas, among many women. As an adult, he is a kind of excited extrovert executive who is divorcing real-time ; Darcy (Helen Hunter) is a wonderful, newly appointed Product Manager in his company, and she puts the focus on female customers. She organizes a fantastic brainstorming session and gives samples of women's products to all the participants: lipstick, bath beads, panty hose, depilatory wax etc. After that, Nick tries all the products that Darcy distributed during the meeting; he wants to know what a "broad" feels, and distributes common sense remarks... One of the best scenes of the movie is when Darcy brings Nick into her wonderful state house. Then there is another great scene when Nick gets to his daughter during a party; she is so upset she hides in the toilets. Helen Hunt is great, dazzling and the final kiss is absolutely wonderful. Like the whole movie, this scene is very rich in messsages. Finally the movie ends to the music of "Night and Day"...
The movie contains great sentences like: "men, not women, suffer from penis envy", "no games, just sport", etc. The music is great, carefully selected and plays at the proper time. However, the original English version is much better than the french translation, which is not always properly conveying all the ideas and feelings.
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Summary: Ran out of ideas...
Review: I was able to watch "What Women Want" free of charge. And that is the only way to watch it since it is quite disposable as a romantic comedy. This is one of those films the wife begs to see - if you catch my drift. Now I am not saying I despise romantic comedies. Great ones do exist. This is simply not one of them. The film starts out promisingly enough. The anti-Cary Grant character that Mel Gibson plays finds it necessary to clue his playboy self into what women want materially in order to keep up with the new female boss (Helen Hunt) at his ad agency. Due to a freakish accident (in one of the few genuinely funny scenes in the movie), he receives the gimmick of being able to actually hear women thinking. Blessed/cursed by this gift, he surmises that he can use it to get exactly what HE wants. Wronged by his new outsider boss who stole the position he was due, he subtly begins to undermine her career. But even as he does, he finds her to be more than he imagined, falling in love with her along the way. Think of it as an update of a film in the manner of "His Girl Friday". But where that film is a classic, this one is a lesson in how to suffocate a movie. Each minute of running time draws a noose around the neck of the film so by the time it ends its finale is impossible to write. In fact, this movie has one of the most contrived and poorly-penned endings in the history of romantic comedies. My wife and I just looked at each other and said, "Aw, c'mon!" To the director/writer, I simply give the advice that it is essential to make the audience buy the ending in any romantic comedy. She failed miserably in this regard and just killed the movie. Sadly, the DVD's commentary track exposes her own trepidations concerning the ending, but she never listened to those nagging doubts and the ending is a mess because of that. Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei is wasted in the film. Mel is often forced to do schtick while Oscar-winning Helen is simply lifeless compared to her turn in "As Good As It Gets". So much high-caliber talent, yet such torture to watch them flail within their caricatures. When you see the gears grinding, you know the film just isn't working. The DVD offers no great redemption, either. Usually a director's commentary provides some insights, but the director is so self-important it is hard to listen. I feel for the male production designer who joined her on the commentary track because she interrupts him mercilessly. I think the director's misandry is showing. So what rescues this movie from the dreaded one star review? Well, I'm being benevolent by giving it one more for the wonderful Astaire impression Mel does while dancing to "Old Blue Eyes". He also provides good laughs during his lame attempt to get in touch with his feminine side (just before receiving his supernatural ability.) In short, skip this one and buy something worthy like "A Room with a View", "Roman Holiday", "Bringing Up Baby", or "When Harry Met Sally".
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