What Women Want

Name: What Women Want
Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
Released: December 15, 2000
Duration: 127 min
Rating: 47
Cast: Helen Hunt, Mel Gibson

2000

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 15, 2000 | PG-13

Starring: Helen Hunt, Mel Gibson

Summary: When Nick Marshall (Gibson), an ad executive and male chauvinist has an accident, he finds he has gained the ability to hear what women are thinking. As time passes, this phenomenon starts to change his behavior.

Director: Nancy Meyers

Genre(s): Fantasy, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 127 min

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Chris Kaltenbach

A frequently hilarious exercise in one sex desperately trying to figure out the other. Read full review

Jami Bernard

A merry romantic comedy in the screwball tradition. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

Without Gibson, this soufflé would fall pancake-flat. Read full review

Film.com Elizabeth Weitzman

This is not a great comedy, but it has some honest laughs, a few touching moments. Read full review

Bob Graham

The movie's gimmick for airing the contents of a woman's head is not unlike that used for the dogs and tots in those "Look Who's Talking" movies. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Steve Simels

A wildly overblown, unpleasantly smirky mess of a film. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Aggressively offensive. Read full review

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JimM.

Sep 30, 2007

Mel Gibson's charming performance shines in an otherwise moderately amusing movie. He's become the best comedic leading man I've seen in a very long time--maybe ever. I'd have to go all the way back to Cary Grant to find anybody even comparable, but Gibson offers Mel Gibson's charming performance shines in an otherwise moderately amusing movie. He's become the best comedic leading man I've seen in a very long time--maybe ever. I'd have to go all the way back to Cary Grant to find anybody even comparable, but Gibson offers accessibility and vulnerability that Grant never had. He even makes romance with Helen Hunt believable. Marisa Tomei is good too, beautiful and sweet. I give it a 10 because Mel Gibson is so astonishingly good. Otherwise it'd get about a 4.… Expand

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Sosmooth1982

Jan 14, 2023

Honestly this is probably my favorite romance movie out of all that I've seen. I wish I was able to hear what women think. That would be sweet.

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Quandry707

Apr 1, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. What women want is a hilarious comedy. Mel's character Nick is a ladykiller who works in advertising in New York. One evening he has to use these feminine products and come up with an idea on how to market one. He decides to use some of them with comical results. After he humiliates himself he accidentally electrocutes himself without dying and he wakes up the next morning on his washroom floor. All of a sudden he can hear all of the women's thoughts that he interacts with. He is afraid but then he realizes the advantages his power offers him. You have to suspend your disbelief as to how he attains and loses the telepathy. The movie is amusing and all of the supporting actors are on point. This is a comedy anybody can enjoy on a day off or on a weekend.… Expand

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Rind

Apr 23, 2021

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Emanate727

Apr 5, 2021

A movie that is worth seeing for the unique storyline and the comedy resulting from the theme of the movie.

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ChrisH.

Jan 4, 2006

Awful, brainless, misogynist tripe.

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