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What Women Want Main Cast:
Director: Nancy Meyers Rating: 3 Stars - worth a watch. Plot Summary: Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a macho, womanising, male chauvinist. He works as an advertising executive and believes that the best way to advertise and sell products is to use babes-in-bikinis. But the world is changing and Nick is losing out on the lucrative female consumer market. Nick also loses out when the promotion that he thinks he is in line for goes to an outsider. Worse still "his" job goes to a woman, Darcy McGurie (Helen Hunt)! Darcy asks her team to get in touch with their feminine side and start chasing the increasing female corner of the consumer market. After a bizarre accident Nick has the ability to hear what women are thinking and uses his newfound power to go out and find out what women want... Review: This film has the bones of a great comic story. Unfortunately what could have been great was only mediocre. The first twenty minutes of the film are extremely funny; the story is looking good, there are plenty of laughs and even the music is good. But then the film loses its way and becomes slow and boring! By the end of the film the laughs have dried up and instead of a dramatic end the whole thing ends with a whimper! The film often suggests the possibility of some interesting sub-plots but these are never developed sufficiently to be anything more that missed opportunities. This is a far cry from Braveheart or The Patriot for Mel Gibson but he plays the comic role very well. He is very funny when the story and script allow. Helen Hunt is really making a come back and has been in the three biggest movie releases in the last three weeks: Cast Away, Pay It Forward and now What Women Want. She may have been a little "soft" in playing the role of hardnosed advertising executive in this film. Lasting thought from this film: Men are from Mars, women are from Venus but if you can speak the Venusian's language you can rule the world! Reviewed by Niall Quinn, PremierMovieReviews |