What Women Want (2000)

I did not like this film at all, even despite the fact the humour was executed well. The main point of the movie seemed to be to show the main character Marshall, played by Gibson, that women actually did have feelings and personalities. The way women were portrayed in the movie, however, seemed to me to be counterproductive to this, since the majority of them (I won't say all because I don't have a photographic memory of the film) came across as shallow and as being mere accessories to the plot, rather than characters in themselves. The only women who had one iota of personality (excluding Marshall's teenaged daughter, who probably had a personality to make up for the fact that the filmmakers morally couldn't sexualise her) seemed to be the secondary main character McGuire, whose thoughts still managed to centre the majority of the time on Marshall and her opinions of him, or, conveniently, on some new idea Marshall could exploit.The main problem of the film to me was that Marshall did not seem to learn anything at all. He apparently was so misogynistic that it didn't occur to him women were independent beings capable of thought and this 'myth' for him seems to have by the end been debunked, but the idea that he supposedly learnt that women were equal to men didn't come across. In fact, the film seemed to make valid his opinion that women were only there for sex with men (eg. the end, in which Marshall ends up having sex with McGuire). McGuire's personality, in fact, seems to have been written into the film purely to make her 'hard to get', and therefore further drives home the message that women are there for men's benefit.This is the most misogynistic film I have ever seen.

or little more. Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt. a smart script. an old problem and seductive answer. romanticism from old fashion recipes but presented in new and not uninspired manner. an accident and slices from romantic comedies from 1940's years.Mel Gibson does a great job and he seems be the best choice for the metamorphose of Nick Marshall. Helen Hunt is herself. vulnerable and powerful in right proportions. a lovely presence - Alan Alda. sure, it is not perfect. but it looking for be different. and the result is OK. the mixture of comedy and nuances of emotions, Marisa Tomei in an almost special role - far to be a surprise- does the film a classic. and a nice entertainment.

This was the most fun I've had movie-watching in at least a year. It had me laughing, talking to the characters (mainly "Oh, no!" and "Watch out!"), and eager to see what would happen next. I guess it's true that women are difficult for men to understand because what we're are thinking often contradicts what we're saying. What DO women want? The casting was wonderful, the acting was superb, and the direction was perfect. I heard that Tim Allan had been considered for the lead role. He would've been a great choice, but so was Mel Gibson. Bravo to one and all! Now how about doing a similar movie with a woman hearing men's thoughts, hmmmm? Just as Shirley Temple helped distract grateful Americans from the Great Depression, we need more comedies like this to distract us from equally-distressing things.

Mel Gibson's teeth are super white on the movie's cover art. Like white as the driven snow. Not a funny movie not a romantic movie its billed as a romantic comedy, perhaps done so out of irony? Yes, somewhere deep down inside this movie is an actual good movie, but whatever depth that is, its utterly unaccessible. This movie's main problem: they take a good idea ( macho creep suddenly can read woman's minds and over the course of the story grows and changes ) and approach it from the most cowardly angle. Were the writers truly courageous the movie could have exposed the ridiculous nature of the human condition for both sexes, instead the film makers give us recycled jokes and ideas. Good news everybody, we can do better!