Product: What Women Want [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 4.0
Not a Chic Flic
I've heard this described as a "Chic Movie" so I avoided seeing it for a long while. Then I happened to catch it playing on cable at my brothers place. I don't understand why people put the tag "Chic Flic" on anything that has an element of romance in it. If anything this movie is more about "what if" male fantasy. The premise is; you could read the oh so complex mind of a woman, how easy, and tempting it would be to misuse that information.Mel Gibson seems to have as much a gift for physical comedy as he does for doing action pictures. The scenes where he tries out womens products as a work assignment are priceless. In this movie he has good chemistry with Helen Hunt, and it helps fill out the romatic side of the story well. One of his other films: Bird on a Wire was pretty flat because there was just no apparent attraction between him, and costar Goldie Hawn. In this one the romantic chemistry works fine.If the movie can be faulted its because its a little too short. I would like to see Hollywood put a little more film in the can when they come up with a good idea like this. Its not like they were spending a lot on special effects and car chases here. The could have used a few more scenes. The resolution of the film was just a little too easy and it loses one star for that problem.