Product: What Women Want [VHS] (2000)
Rating: 5.0
Excellent, perfect, fabulous !!! A must !!!
Another great performance from Mel Gibson. Every split second of this movie has to be enjoyed, from start to finish. It is so good I got completely absorbed in it and could not suspend my attention at all !!! First of all, the cast is fantastic, especially Mel Gibson and Helen Hunter, both of them at their very best, absolutely fabulous !!! Helen Hunt is really perfect in the role of the highly successful career woman, yet so very inspiring, so very sincere, so very deeply feminine, and so moving. Then all the emotion, all the ideas contained in this movie are absolutely great and to the point. Finally, the story itself is interesting. The whole movie is really nice entertainment. It is also fast-paced, very dense, full of humor, and it is also a movie about truth versus illusion, truth against wrong. On top of all that, it is also a very deep and very rich movie, and it raises plenty of questions, and not only the easy "Are women really superior to men ?". The beginning of the movie is great, with Nick (Mel Gibson) born and raised in Las Vegas, among many women. As an adult, he is a kind of excited extrovert executive who is divorcing real-time ; Darcy (Helen Hunter) is a wonderful, newly appointed Product Manager in his company, and she puts the focus on female customers. She organizes a fantastic brainstorming session and gives samples of women's products to all the participants: lipstick, bath beads, panty hose, depilatory wax etc. After that, Nick tries all the products that Darcy distributed during the meeting; he wants to know what a "broad" feels, and distributes common sense remarks... One of the best scenes of the movie is when Darcy brings Nick into her wonderful state house. Then there is another great scene when Nick gets to his daughter during a party; she is so upset she hides in the toilets. Helen Hunt is great, dazzling and the final kiss is absolutely wonderful. Like the whole movie, this scene is very rich in messsages. Finally the movie ends to the music of "Night and Day"...The movie contains great sentences like: "men, not women, suffer from penis envy", "no games, just sport", etc. The music is great, carefully selected and plays at the proper time. However, the original English version is much better than the french translation, which is not always properly conveying all the ideas and feelings.