What Women Want

What Women Want

(2000) [Trailer]
Director: Nancy Meyers (IMDB)

Hello reader, I am back and better than ever with a new Fun review. As you can see, I have decided to review a film that I feel this website has needed for some time, What Women Want. Now you might ask yourself, why Sam, why would you review a film from 2000, which is ultimately forgettable at best. Well the hell with you, how dare you think you can tell me what to review. When you decide to write your reviews, you can choose the film so let me choose mine.

Nick Marshall (played by the notoriously friendly Mel Gibson) is a salesman who is fantastic at selling to men but even better at seducing women. He is without a doubt a male chauvinist. Yet this chauvinist is in for a RUDE awakening. One night while attempting to understand the mind of women (a fairly common thing for men), he decides that trying on feminine products in the bathroom will help him gain understanding. His belief being that a little makeup and some tampons hold all of the secrets of the mind of a woman. Well, before you dismiss that (of course you do, don’t knock something until you try it), Nick accidently falls into the tub while crimping his hair giving him an electric shock. What happens? Well, instead of simply killing him or at best badly burning him, he is given the power to read only women’s minds. Well I think you can guess what happens next, (at first scared, then excited, then hates it and finally learns a valuable lesson from it).

Overall, I found this film a decent idea (again what man wouldn’t want to know what women think) but overall it lacked the depth that would make this a good film. There are a few funny parts (reading a woman’s mind during intercourse) but overall not enough funny for me to overlook the glaring logical errors and lack of creativity. Just a few for the fun of it, why would an electric shock give him the ability to read minds, why would this shock give him only the ability to read women’s minds and not men’s, is there something special about makeup that allows you to read women’s minds, why wouldn’t Mel Gibson use this ability to gamble against women to make more money, etc….. I could go on and on with this. If you are looking for mindless comedy that’s ok at best, go with this.