Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6399 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-07-16
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 126 minutes

Synopsis
Director, writer, and producer Nancy Meyers's (THE PARENT TRAP) sophomore directorial effort is a lively screwball fantasy featuring Mel Gibson in his first romantic comedy. Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a high-flying chauvinistic Chicago advertising executive who, like his musical idol, Frank Sinatra, calls women "baby" and believes he has the world on a string. Nick experiences a rude awakening when the creative director position he coveted goes to Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt), a savvy outsider--and a woman--who intends to aggressively pursue the lucrative women's market. While trying to brainstorm ideas for "feminine" products, Nick experiences a freak accident that gives him the ability to hear women's thoughts. Determined to win back his stolen job, Nick uses his terrifying yet useful new talent to scrutinize Darcy and finds his smart, beautiful rival may not be the "bitch on wheels" he imagined. Meanwhile, he also must maneuver carefully within complex relationships with his estranged teenage daughter, Alex (Ashley Johnson), and a pretty coffee shop waitress, Lola (Marisa Tomei). Once Nick begins to listen to the new voices he hears, his previous worldview is challenged, and he finds that he finally might understand what women want.

Customer Reviews

what women want
One of the best chick flicks ever made, full of many funny moments. This film truly gives men an insight to the wonderful world of women. A great cast who play their characters perfectly.

fab idea
Nick Marshall(Mel Gibson) works for an advertising company and on discoving that he has not been promoted and that Darcy McGuire(Helen Hunt) has got the job instead he sets out to sabotage her. Darcy sends each of the people on her team including Nick home with a kit of products that need representation. Mel has no ideas so decides to borrow some of his daughter's music and get into the woman psychy and try all the products on! Though in doing so he manages to electicute himself and ends up hearing every womans thought, including the thoughts of poodles!

Not only does Nick find out that everyone hates him, he also finds himself seriously falling for the woman he set out to destroy.
So Nick sets about restoring the world's opinion of him by becoming a man that women really do want and not just a man that men aspire to be!

patronising and unworthy
Twice now I have struggled to watch this film and the second time I succeeded in stopping myself from pressing the off button. This is a terrible film unworthy of the talented Mel Gibson who was guilty of over acting. Helen Hunt was good in her part but the whole plot was so un funny that her talent also was wasted.

The idea underlying the film that an extremely chauvinistic male should acquire the ability to hear women's thoughts was highly original and had the potential for something far greater than this second rate film realised. It ended up being pathetically outdated and patronising to women and so it might be dubbed a superficial piece of entertainment that can raise a titter here and there but certainly worth a miss.

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