What Women Want

Pros: Mel Gibson, bikini waxing and El Grande.
Cons: Helen Hunt, the script, the pacing, the plot, and the movie.

Sometimes you must judge a movie solely by the "feel-good" factor, a percent of averages. Allow me to include a little bit of stereotypical thinking here and when you roll your eyes, keep in mind that I have a right to my fantasy in reviewing...

Pros: A very touching and humorous film.
Cons: Watching Mel Gibson in tights!

If you are looking for the perfect couples movie for Valentine, then the movie What Women Want (2000) is for you. This movie is a very touching and humorous film dealing with Mel Gibson falling in love and reconnecting with his teenage...

Pros: Good acting, funny, high quality production
Cons: Could have done more with the initial premise

Diatribe… “What Women Want” is, you might suspect, Mel Gibson. And here he is, taking a break from creating socially relevant but commercially unviable films to star in another commercially viable but socially inconsequential ...

Pros: I'm a sucker for Gibson
Cons: story is a bunch of fluff, so is Hunt's character

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Delta Burke was in Sordid Lives (2000) with Beth Grant
Beth Grant was in Flatliners (1990) with Kevin Bacon ***


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Pros: light and funny, good acting, admirable cast
Cons: unbelievable

What Women Want was an enjoyable movie, albeit
one that could be construed as a chick-flick or date movie,
produced and directed by Nancy Meyers, and with a great cast,
starring Mel Gibson as Nick Marshall, and probably best...

Pros: Judy Greer, Marisa Tomei and Lauren Holly have small but well done roles.
Cons: Ashley Johnson is terrible! Plot is weak. Hero learns little from his trials.

If you're looking for something intellectually stimulating, forget it. If you're looking for insightful or innovative, wrong movie. If you think you'll learn something about women, not here. And if you're looking for fall off your chair funny, this ain't...

Pros: Gibson waxing his legs and wearing pantyhose, Hunt
Cons: simple plot

I saw this movie about a month ago and am still having problems trying to digest that Gibson was actually wearing pantyhose! Hmm, but I guess that he gets paid enough to cover his embarrassment. What Women Want was definitely a movie to give you a...

Pros: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt
Cons: Lightweight and overlong

What Women Want is a light, pleasant comedy that requires the viewers to check their brains in at the door. Mel Gibson stars as Nick Marshall, a divorced ad executive who is expecting a promotion. His boss, Dan Wanamaker (Alan Alda), is looking to...

Pros: A romantic comedy with great acting that women AND men can enjoy!
Cons: The very last scenes are a little anti-climatic.

What Women Want is a romantic comedy that even men will enjoy. In fact, we rented this movie after my brother-in-law recommended it to my husband. At the movie’s end, as is our habit, we rated this movie: I gave it an A-, my husband gave it a B-....

Pros: Mel Gibson in pantyhose
Cons: Helen Hunt's fake tan

What do women want? It's the age-old question that men have been trying to figure out for centuries. Although men have cohabitated with women since the beginning of time, they never seem to be able to figure us out. Being a women, I'm not even sure...

Pros: Acting, writing, music
Cons: Poor marketing-shows too much of movie

Tired of watching movies in which you find out how many different ways cars can be blown up or how many different ways we can destroy our fellow humans? If you are, as I am, then "What Women Want" with Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt is the movie...

Pros: Some of Mel's innate charm occasionally peeks through all the contrived and slow-moving artifice.
Cons: Stale jokes, wasted actors, ancient stereotypes, insulting screenplay/

It's awful to see an actor you really like appear in such a terrible movie. With the matinee-idol looks and charm to spare, Mel Gibson is the textbook definition of a movie star. Women adore him, men admire him and every agent in the universe wants him...

Pros: Excellent cast, classy film
Cons: Some parts too fuzzy

Oscar winner Mel Gibson. Oscar winner Helen Hunt. Oscar winner Marisa Tomei. Oscar nominee Bette Midler. Directed by Oscar nominee Nancy Meyers. Whew! Talk about a major group of talent involved in this one. With all those Oscars, is What Women...

Pros: Stars that are easy on the eyes
Cons: Nick's "conversion" is a stretch

One day last week I played ‘hookie’ from the demands of the day job. Mrs. G and I broke from the real world and took in a matinee. What Women Want was a relatively effortless way to spend a couple of hours.


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Pros: Gibson and Hunt make a run-of-the-mill romantic comedy sparkle with charm and chemistry
Cons: I expected more than trite cliches from a premise like this

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