Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 142
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 124
The Women is a toothless remake of the 1939 classic, lacking the charm, wit and compelling protagonists of the original.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 30
The Women is a toothless remake of the 1939 classic, lacking the charm, wit and compelling protagonists of the original.
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Veteran producer/director Diane English (The Lathe of Heaven, Murphy Brown) helms this contemporized remake of George Cukor's beloved proto-feminist comedy drama The Women (1939), an adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play. The English version follows the gossip, bitchy wisecracking, and overall disillusionment that erupt among a group of socialite friends when their dearest and most envied learns of her husband's marital infidelity at the hands of a backstabbing shopgirl. The all-female cast is
Sep 4, 2008 Wide
Dec 19, 2008
$26.8M
Picturehouse Entertainment
All Critics (142) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (126) | DVD (4)
The classic 1939 film adaptation... worth seeing again and again. This is not.
I love women in real life but at the movies I hated The Women.
The funniest thing about The Women is that Mick Jagger is one of the producers. There was a knowing laugh in the theatre as his name sprang up in the opening credits -- our last chance to laugh, as it turned out, for the next two hours.
One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
In the end, English just wants to make a nice chick flick with some sassy lines. Genuine nastiness has been eliminated, while not-very-funny banter is retained.
Though aspects of the 1939 comedy seem silly and shrill now, they were at least consistently entertaining. Where the original was deliciously loopy and melodramatic fun, this one is watered-down, sappy and earnest.
The cinematic equivalent of yoga-class muzak
This is the movie Diane English fought to get made the last 15 years?
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The Women is not perfect, and the best way to enjoy it is as a showcase for some of the top female acting talent of the day.
Sex, lies and shopping: An exclusively perky female milieu of smart and sassy, if also frivolously inclined backtalk babes.
...mediocre at best and strident at worst. (Blu-ray Edition)
...a spectacularly dull film.
Everything has been smoothed out to the point of tepidity.
A lazy film that makes the most obvious points about the war between the sexes and, as a result, makes the characters much less interesting than they might have been.
I'm afraid I could neither laugh at, nor take seriously, most of this movie.
Containing as much wisdom as it does wit, English's sparkling screenplay takes what was a fairly shallow story and creates a snapshot of modern (albeit wealthy) women's lives.
Even a dream cast has to have the right material to work with. As well as a filmmaker who can bring out the best in them.
Actually quite an acceptable, enjoyable midrange chick flick that hasn't quite deserved the critical drubbing it has received in the States.
If you don't take it seriously -- and I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously -- there is enjoyment to be had from these contemporary women.
Any film about a group of women -- friends or not -- gets my attention. Fireworks are guaranteed. Sure enough, Diane English makes her feature debut with a classic, filling it with a ripper cast, each of whom adds their weight in TNT to the detonations.
A juicy exploration of women's roles in the 21st century -- at work, at home and in the bedroom and although men figure in the storyline (natch), it is women-only who grace the screen. Three generations of them.
Meg Ryan is really good in this, but besides that THE WOMEN is a chick flick that's the very reason why guys hate them.
"The Women" is a grand old dame that shrugs off time as easily as signing a credit card receipt.
Really, really crap!
June 23, 2011Super Reviewer
Cast: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Natasha Alam, Carrie Fisher, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler, Annette Bening Director: Diane English Summary: Shocked by the discovery that their pal Mary's (Meg Ryan) husband is having an affair with a beautiful young shop girl (Eva Mendes), a tight-knit
July 21, 2009
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