Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 121
Fresh: 65 | Rotten: 56
Even though Gibson is a good sport in his role, What Women Want is a rather conventional, fluffy comedy-romance that doesn't make good use of its premise.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 33
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 12
Even though Gibson is a good sport in his role, What Women Want is a rather conventional, fluffy comedy-romance that doesn't make good use of its premise.
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Average Rating: 3.1/5
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After an accident, a chauvenistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.
May 1, 2001 Wide
May 8, 2001
$181.5M
Paramount Pictures
All Critics (141) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (56) | DVD (24)
It should be called What Moviegoers Want, because it appeals to both sexes, without pandering to or demeaning either of them.
It's a romantic comedy with a distinctly modern, delicate but sharp, satirical cutting edge.
Gibson turns in one of those rare comedy performances that, every so often, manages to snag an Oscar nomination. And, you know, he deserves one.
For a while, anyway, it's very funny.
Gibson keeps this movie afloat.
English's attempts to fit The Women into a modern setting are intelligent, but that, unfortunately, does not suffice, because the film is so limp in so many other ways.
Mel Gibson is at his most megawatt movie star charming.
Though it isn't quite Oscar material, Mel Gibson gives what may be the most entertaining big-star performance of its year.
What Women Want may seem like a one-note sitcom sort of movie, but it's funnier and a layer or two deeper than that.
Takes a promising idea and buries it under subplots and speeches that don't know when to quit.
A great romantic comedy!
June 24, 2011Super Reviewer
Uncomfortable film that asks we accept the premise that the only real conversation between the sexes can happen when pigs can fly...uhh, I mean when men can read women's minds. Nice chemistry between the leads though.
July 18, 2007Super Reviewer
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