Year:
2000
Studio:
Paramount Pictures/Icon Entertainment
Movie:
3/5
DVD:
2/5
The concept is simple: unthinking ladies man Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson)
gains the power to hear women's thoughts. At first alarming, he uses
his power for his own selfish ends, but ends up appreciating women as
real people by the end of the movie. Nick is an advertising executive
specializing in T&A ads.The president of the company, Dan Wanamaker
(Alan Alda) brings in a woman, Darcy McGuire (Helen Hunt), to be the
head advertising VP because Dan realizes that the company needs to
cater towards women's advertising.
It's a nice story. Dan is a man's man and everybody but Darcy and his
daughter Alexandra (Ashely Johnson) treats him nicely. It's only when
he can hear their thoughts that he realizes that everybody either hates
or is disgusted by him. Still, he spends half of the movie trying to
undermins Darcy so that he can have her job, a job that he thinks
should have rightfully gone to him.
Of course Nick starts falling in love with Darcy and she with him.The
natural turning point when Nick has to reveal that he's betrayed Darcy
comes right at the end of the movie. I wasn't entirely convinced that
Darcy should have forgiven him, but it does make a better ending.
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The DVD has a
commentary track wtih director Nancy Meyers. Nancy is a bit quiet and
doesn't say too many things that are really insightful. There are two
promotional featurettes that aren't very informative and have too much
market-speak for my tastes.
What I liked: light-hearted romantic comedy, Mel Gibson playing a
comedic role.
What I didn't like: awkward ending, movie tried to cover too much --
seemed a bit rushed.
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