Product: What Women Want [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 3.0
Entertaining, but missed the Memorable mark
Mel Gibson stars as a womanizer and a bit of a jerk who suddenly gains telepathy after a lightning strike. For some reason, his telepathy only extends to hearing the thoughts of women.While this premise could have turned into a fascinating story, what we get is actually predictable jokes and a predictable growth of character, which occurs somewhat suddenly in the last acts of the film. The typical antithetical male-female relationship is present between Mel and Helen Hunt. It proceeds according to the formula for a long while, but for some reason the ubiquitous "crisis before declarations of love" doesn't ring true in this film. It seems very forced, even more so than that plot element normally is.Still, there are entertaining scenes in the film, and it was made during Mel Gibson's "hot streak" (and before he turned his personal life into an ethical and PR nightmare), when just his presence in a film seemed to make it worth watching, no matter what else was going on.The DVD presentation is solid, not spectacular by any means. This is not the type of film that I care to watch extras on, as there are no special effects magic tricks to explain, and no interesting movie history to be explored, so I won't speak to those.