Product: What Women Want [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 1.0
A very patronising view of women
Mel Gibson plays an advertising executive who suddenly becomes able to read women's thoughts, which he uses to his advantage until he become a reformed character and starts wanting to help women instead of taking advantage of them. Too sweet for words. The women in the film are a bunch of hopless losers, all of whom need the help of a man (Gibson, of course) to help them out. Helen Hunt plays Gibson's boss, and she's so sweet and helpless you wonder how she ever got to be a tea-lady,let alone a top executive in a ruthless business like advertising. Gibson stitches her up by stealing her ideas, and naturally she can't do a thing to help herself, poor little thing, until he takes pity on her. His daughter spends most of the film slavering with lust over her boyfriend, then suddenly she inexpicably goes off the idea of having ... with him (why?), but she can't get out of it herself, oh no, Daddy has to come and rescue her. And the girl in the office who's going to commit suicide because she can't get promoted (yes, honestly) guess who comes to her rescue. ...