vkap-13252 It is a reasonable comedy with Mel Gibson serving as the primary eye candy for women. Fair enough. His character is show as pretty much pathetic and various women as his victims: ex-wife, daughter, house-keeper, subordinate, date, boss - all of them. So the narrative is roughly - a good for nothing but good looking loser is not qualified and inflicts pain on women in his life whereas they are mostly nice people, tolerate and even accept him. Whoa!

Sandeep Gupta What Women Want. An out of box idea where Nick played by charming Mel Gibson gets the miraculous ability to hear what women are thinking. As expected, this ability makes him women's favorite and helps him boost his career where he is directly competing with Darcy played by smart Helen Hunt who eventually becomes his love interest. The interesting idea evolves into a number of witty sequences where Nick manipulates the women around him by using their own thoughts and all these women fall for him instantly. The movie is nicely paced to give you enough time to absorb the idea. Pairing of Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt works in right manner where both make you root for them. Although movie seems to fail in exploiting the smart idea to its best of the potential but it still makes some nice moments. I am going with good 7 out of 10 for What Women Want. It will never blow your mind off but it makes for a nice watch anytime.

leplatypus This could have been the subject of this movie as Mel can heard women's thoughts as well as canine's ones: we never know why and if there's a hidden message behind this. Anyway, he prefers to tune with women and Mel is indeed comfortable in a comedy: his telepathic ability inspire some really funny moments, especially regarding the life at work: now, i understand why we are so tired coming back home: telling something and thinking the opposite is indeed tiring! However, it's true: we must get along all day with people who are sometimes worst than awful! Beyond, this original idea is not used to its maximum as the movie sticks to the credo of American movie: over there, work stops at the manager level and happens in big corporate firm, usually in entertainment (see De Palma's "Passion"): Thus, as real job is a bit more soliciting for people, audience should felt alienated. This was my feeling as I'm really fed up to follow the life of those privileged, living in big condos, needing staff for everything. What's revealing here is that Mel precisely falls in love with his big boss but maybe an humanist consciousness makes him notice the small archivist as well, maybe the only one true character here!In addition, the movie is a huge brainwash for advertising, which is the most devious activity ever, as its goal is to make think that the moon is full of green eye. As they said in Groland, having Nike sneakers, we don't play basketball like Mike, neither having Mont Blanc pen, write novels like Heminghway, etc...At last, i really don't understand the need to take being gay as pretext to end an relationship. So, this movie has really some excellent moment of brilliance but also very disappointing ones. But it was great to see Mel being a cool jerk and for that someway, it was very unusual and refreshing!

SnoopyStyle Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a womanizing ad executive specializing in T&A for men. He thinks he's on top of the world. His ex-wife is getting remarried, and he's expecting to be promoted. The problem is his boss Dan (Alan Alda) is losing accounts for women. So Dan hires outsider Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt) as his superior. Meanwhile his daughter Alex (Ashley Johnson) is staying with him for 2 weeks while her mother honeymoons. Then he accidentally electrocutes himself and hits his head in the bathroom. When he wakes up, he finds that he can read women's mind.Nancy Meyers may know the mind of a woman, but I don't know what she thinks Mel Gibson's character is doing. He is going crazy for no reason. First if she wants to have a men's man, why would she have him drink red wine, or watch men's gymnastics? If a straight man lands on men's gymnastics, he would switch channel as quickly as possible. And while it's great that he listens to ol' Blue Eyes, why is he dancing like Fred Astaire? And why does he go crazy hearing women's thoughts? He's completely overacting, and Nancy Meyers shouldn't encourage it. It is not funny. It's just stupid. He's acting like a BITCH....or MITCH.And he has to go to a shrink to realize that reading minds is a superpower. All of a sudden, he's an idiot and a schizo. If you can get pass this, Mel calms down and the movie improves. But then the final dialog is so clunky, that it made me wince. I understand what Meyers is trying to do by switching the gender roles. But a guy would never say that to a woman. So why should Helen Hunt say that to Mel Gibson?