What women want (2000)

Another potentially funny comedy lost in the sheer boredom of predictable love and clichés.

Because this flick starts out with actual laughs. Mel Gibson was born to play a Sinatra-loving playboy who knows little about women he spends more than 24 hours with and gets away with most things due to charm and power. He practically owns the screen the first for most of the first hour. To watch him indulge in life and exploit knowing what women think is a most satisfying comedic experience. Then it all crumbles.
I'm not certain what the director is trying to do here. First she creates a character out of the ordinary, and then she works herself to the bone trying to fit him into a role as ordinary and boring as the rest of us. I suppose that is the way it is with women. This makes the movie seems a bit half and half. The first half is filled with jokes, chauvinism and flair. The second has relationships, morale and predictability in every scene. An annoying snooze-fest. So I suppose any couple seeing this flick will have scenes they like, though never the same one.

Oh, and one last time for those on the back row: Men dressing as women is NOT comedy. And it has not been since Lemmon & Curtis. So please, pretty please stop inserting these scenes in 20% of the comedies made every year.

As for the score: Half and half

5/10