Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a real ladies man. He is a total chauvinist. He calls women "baby", and "Sweetheart", and he has no respect for them at all. He is expecting to be promoted to Creative Director, but is informed by his boss that the job has gone to someone else, a woman! Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt) has been hired from a competitor where she brought in tons of new business last year. Nick is pissed! He is real cold about her coming to his company and determined not to cooperate with her. She's a doll! She is smart and to the point, and she is a leader. At an introductory meeting with all of the agents she gives everyone a box with about ten different things in it. These products are all feminine oriented. Nicks company garnered NO female business last year. All of these products are looking for new advertisers. Nick has a fifteen year old daughter. She is a real smart-ass and thinks that she is thirty. She is staying with him for two weeks while her mom is on her honeymoon. That night Nick goes to his hi-rise apartment and puts on some Sinatra, opens a bottle of wine, and digs into the box of products to see if he can come up with any ideas. He tries out the fingernail polish, the wonder bra, the panty hose, and the hair gel. Then he tries the home waxing kit and slipped into the bathtub with a hair drier and electrocutes himself. The next morning he woke up and all of a sudden he can hear women's thoughts. Everywhere he goes he can hear everything that women are thinking. He has an idea that if he can read Darcy's mind, he can scoop all of her ideas and take her job. His ideas are working and one day he hears her thinking about NIKE. He tells her that he has been considering NIKE and wants to pitch for their account. Working with her, he starts stealing her ideas. He sells NIKE and all of a sudden her job is in jeopardy. The problem is that he is falling in love with her and is ashamed of what he is doing. In the mean time, his daughter is dating a total piece of trash who has only one thing on his mind. He really wants to be a dad to her. All of these female thoughts are actually turning Nick into a great guy. He figures out that he is in love with Darcy and must tell her. She has lost the job and Nick goes to his boss and tells him that he must hire her back. When he finally tells her that he has been playing her she is mad and fires him. He accepts and walks away, but she calls him back. In an electrical storm he is under some wires when lightening strikes and he loses the ability to hear women's thoughts. He an Darcy are together.Vollständige Rezension lesen
What if a man’s man kind of guy suddenly could read the minds of the women around him, and he hears what they really think of him?? What if he uses his new power to steal someone else’s plans? Mel Gibson plays a great role here as the jerk who finds out how things really are. HelenHunt does a great job of being first the victim and then the overcomes.
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I did not think it was very good. There was not too much to be said for either actor. In other movies they very good in the roles they play.
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My partner and I had just finished watching a serious Mel Gibson movie. I commented that it was challenging for me to accept Mel in a serious role when the only other one of his movies I had seen was "What Women Want". I saw that in 2001 in the movies when it originally came out. It was such a funny and clever story that I still remembered it. While Mel was convincing in both of these movies at opposite ends of the spectrum, I found "What Women Want" much more memorable than the historical movie we just watched.
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Mel Gibson would be wiser to stay away from anything regarding 'what women want' since his real life sexism is blatantly obvious to any savvy observer. I imagine he enjoyed getting to play himself in this flick--a chauvinist who calls women "baby," (I'd say, "that's Dr. Baby to you!"). Director, producer, and writer Nancy Meyer has finally played with Mel Gibson in a role the "heddon" (quoting the L.A. police report article on Courttv.com) belongs in. Using woman-defaming lines like "bitch on wheels," the 'wreckless speeding stud on booze' is exposed for the truth of who he really is both in the movie & in real life. The only reason I even bother to review it is because Nancy Meyer brilliantly outs Mel Gibson for WHAT he really is: a supremacist. Brava to her excellent work.
Yes, it is another somewhat predictable Romantic-Comedy, BUT I loved it! Seeing Mel Gibson "soft-shoe" around his apartment was in itself worth the purchase, not to mention the pantyhose scene. It's all about the humor and Gibson's charm; one of those characters who is morally challenged, yet you love um anyway. Helen Hunt is a bit dry in her performance, not enough spunk. (Rene Russo would have been an outstanding choice for this one.) I recommend it highly in the "ChickFlick" category.
This was a fun little flick about one man's experience hearing the thoughts of women. He learns in the process that he wasn't a very considerate person, and he learned exactly what co-workers and family really thought about him. He trys to use this temporary gift to destroy one woman's career but soon learns to fall in love. This was a fun show and was well directed. The dialog was zippy. Good show.
This one is done so well you don't care who the actors are. I buy all of the movies and my wife reviews them. She watched this one twice and enjoyed it twice. On a scale of 0 to 10 that makes this one a 10. It moves right along with the story line and keeps you interested 100% of the time. It doesn't get better than that. You are not going to walk away to make more popcorn or whatever. There are no white knuckle tense momements,, just temporary confusion which gets promptly explained away. Writing a screen play this good is rarely done. A great idea with a great presentation with a great ending. It tells an impossible story with an unexpected ending.
The days of women desiring the man who speaks so negatively about women in his real life are just about over. In fact, they've been on the downslide since his cutesy boyish looks faded fast into the past. It's surprising that any woman director would make a film with a male chauvinist, that is, if she had any self respect. Enough already of Mel Gibson and the hyper male movies he's obsessed with. I've seen all the gore, blood, torture, stinking hairy chested sweat that I am going to. Fade...fade...fade away into the past where your kind of persona belongs.
Quality of video is so poor; it looks like a boot-legged copy. Unfortunately I can't return it. Will just throw it away. The lesson is to buy only items that are returnable on eBay.
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