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What Women Want

2000

Nancy Meyers

Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda ...

5.3

39,016

Romance. Comedy Nick Marshall was the ultimate man's man. A charming, irrepressible bachelor living on the A-list of life, he loved listening to Sinatra and, like the Chairman of the Board himself, thought he had the world on a string. Then one night, in the privacy of his Rat Pack dream apartment, that string began to unravel when he got an unexpected jolt, which opened his eyes and ears more than he could have imagined. Or ever dreamed of. Now, Nick ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"If the movie is imperfect, it's not boring and is often very funny, as in a solo dance that Nick does in his apartment (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"'What Women Want' starts with a great idea, but the movie's potential drops faster than the tech stocks on the Nasdaq (...) As directed by Nancy Meyers, Nick isn't a character, really: he's a conceit"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[It] boasts an irresistible central conceit that more often than not is used for oafishly boisterous gags and squirm-inducing 'sensitive man' wish fulfillment"	NEU
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Josh Goldsmith, Cathy Yuspa and Diane Drake have created some rich situations some rich situations (...) But this is an extremely long comedy at more than two hours. And they create some weird loose ends"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A genial, reasonably entertaining date movie (...) You could do worse on a Friday night than see this."	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"It never strays far from the reassuring realm of the sitcom (...) [It] retains the meandering shapelessness of Meyers' directorial debut, 1998's 'The Parent Trap'"	NEU
United States	Wesley Morris SFGATE	"The movie's gimmick for airing the contents of a woman's head is not unlike that used for the dogs and tots in those 'Look Who's Talking' movies."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"It’s got a high sporting verbal zing (...) [Gibson] and Hunt achieve a genuine flirtatious chemistry"	POS

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