To start with, I just have to laugh about something. Can you imagine Mel Gibson, a great director, by the way, I'm a fan, being cast nowadays as a warm, fuzzy character, as he was in this film? How times have changed, huh?



What Women Want has some funny scenes and dips its beak into a few taboo subjects, and although it raised eyebrows for its blatant plugging of several brand name products, all passed off as internal storytelling at a fictional ad agency, some of the subject matter here really was kind of bravely touched upon considering this movie came from the normally placid waters of the studio that released it. '90's A-lister Helen Hunt is still fun to watch (whatever happened to her, by the way?) and a mentally voyeuristic Gibson plays the slightly kooky man-granted-fantasy-insight-into women's-minds with the right mix of charm, awe and shame. Just hearing him deliver the line, "...oh, I'm REALLY gay..." was worth the purchase price.



If you want a light, funny, slightly outrageous comedy for a night home alone, you could do worse than this one.