The lead character smokes cigars throughout the movie and is often shown getting drunk on wine in his apartment. Add your rating See all 2 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 7 kid reviews. The ad agency needs to appeal to women consumers, so Darcy hands out products for the staff to explore, and Nick does his best, experimenting with mascara, leg wax, nail polish, and exfoliator.
But an accidental near-electrocution leaves him with a new power: the ability to hear women's thoughts. At first horrified, Nick realizes that there are some real advantages to being the only straight man in the world who knows how women think. He uses it to manipulate women, including Darcy and a pretty coffee shop waitress Marisa Tomei. But it turns out that women don't think about Nick the way that he thought they did, and he's forced to think about himself in a new way.
Nick has never listened to women before, but now he can't help it. He sees the damage that he has done, and he begins to correct it. And of course he begins to fall in love with Darcy and to connect to his year-old daughter. Mel Gibson shows us just what women want in his first-ever romantic comedy.
Whether he's dancing to Frank Sinatra in his apartment, watching his daughter try on prom dresses, or just reacting to snippets of thoughts he hears from girls, women, and even female dogs as he walks down the street, he's delightful. He has the physical grace of a leading man and the timing and unselfconsciousness of a comic. The script sags in places, and the sexist office scenes are terribly dated, but Gibson keeps the movie floating in the clouds.
Families can talk about why it's hard for men and women to figure each other out, and how they might do better. What are some of the sexist workplace behaviors Gibson's character displays that would be intolerable under any circumstances today? What are some other aspects of the workplace scenes that seem dated? How does the movie address serious topics such as teen sex, or how to help someone who is struggling with depression? Common Sense Media's unbiased ratings are created by expert reviewers and aren't influenced by the product's creators or by any of our funders, affiliates, or partners.
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Thank you for your support. Our ratings are based on child development best practices. We display the minimum age for which content is developmentally appropriate. The star rating reflects overall quality. Learn how we rate. Now it almost feels overstated; it's great to liberate women's sexuality from historical restraints, but read in the wrong mood, or after watching too many episodes of Girls , it sounds like yet another obligation.
Along with everything else on your to-do list, you are required to show off your inherent range and innate power like a lab rat on a dopamine surge. Rats are a big part of this book, as they often are in pop-science, which could boil down many of its arguments to "because a rat did it". Bergner spends time, as Wolf did, watching scientists watching rats for signs of what in humans might be considered inverse or atypical gender behaviour.
The same goes for human experiments, in which women are hooked up to electrodes and shown porn. Sure enough, the female rats are more sexually aggressive than the males, and the porn-watching women as indiscriminately aroused as the men in the trials, right down to being turned on by copulating bonobos — no candles or box of Milk Tray required.
The complicating factor, of course, is that arousal does not always equal desire, which is the sticking point in the search for a female version of Viagra and the reason why no one wants to date monkeys.
Or, it would seem, from anecdotes in the book, nice guys. To support his theory, Bergner finds case studies of women who feel guilty for not fancying the sweet, reliable men, opting instead for the unreliable risk-takers. It is to medicate the millions who report sexual disinterest or lack of pleasure in long-term relationships.
Or that many adult women would rather have a cup of tea than have sex with their long-term partner. The celebration of the sexually active younger woman through raunch culture may appear to contradict this trend. But the statistics tell their own tale. Women with a new lover were most likely to enjoy sex. Sexual experiments on women masturbating or watching porn, while wired up to machines, may provide prurient interest to Bergner and his readers.
Women undoubtedly have the capacity for powerful sexual desire, arousal, and response. Lauren Holly as Gigi. Alan Alda as Dan Wanamaker. Reviews What Women Want. Roger Ebert December 15, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. All is Forgiven Sheila O'Malley. Night Teeth Nick Allen. Beans Nick Allen.
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