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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
The Women is an interesting one. It's the very chickiest of chick flicks inasmuch as, you won't glimpse a single chap on screen the entire time. You'll not even hear one on the phone... and you may not even realise until the end credits.
Oh, there's nothing particularly wonderful or particularly rubbish about this film. It's just inoffensive and tepid and a perfectly adequate way to spend a couple of hours. It's a tamer version of Sex and the City, really: 4 women doing lunch in New York before shopping. Except when Ryan's character discovers her husband is having an affair with a perfume spritzer (Eva Mendez who, admittedly, is bloody gawjus) her life starts to tumble down.
The focus of the film, though, is female friendship. It's an homage to the nature of friendship, and it's charming in that respect... it's just the ancillary stuff - affairs, prodigious pregnancies, lesbianism - that steers it back to standard chick-flickery and ultimately detracts from the real story.
The performances are uniformly good - none of the actresses are tested in any way, and it's all perfectly nice.
Best watched on a Summer afternoon with girly friends, sunshine and a glass of chilled white wine in hand.
Oh, there's nothing particularly wonderful or particularly rubbish about this film. It's just inoffensive and tepid and a perfectly adequate way to spend a couple of hours. It's a tamer version of Sex and the City, really: 4 women doing lunch in New York before shopping. Except when Ryan's character discovers her husband is having an affair with a perfume spritzer (Eva Mendez who, admittedly, is bloody gawjus) her life starts to tumble down.
The focus of the film, though, is female friendship. It's an homage to the nature of friendship, and it's charming in that respect... it's just the ancillary stuff - affairs, prodigious pregnancies, lesbianism - that steers it back to standard chick-flickery and ultimately detracts from the real story.
The performances are uniformly good - none of the actresses are tested in any way, and it's all perfectly nice.
Best watched on a Summer afternoon with girly friends, sunshine and a glass of chilled white wine in hand.
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
A group of friends rally round Mary as her cheating husband tears her world apart. That's it! In the now popular tradition this is hoped to be held together by the sheer weight of stars involved. Annette Benning is as reliable as ever as she plays a treacherous career woman,(apparently your friends cheating on you is worse than your spouse!), Jada Pinkett Smith is given no lines, just angry looks, as a Lesbian writer,(a relationship with a model is set up & then forgotten about), Debra Messing is made to look scruffy and a pig because she's a 'breeder'( and of course her kids are uncontrollable little ratbags), Eva Mendes is eye candy, Bette Midler makes a brief appearance but is not given a single funny line & Meg Ryan plays the same character she has always played since she claimed the rom-com title as her own, the put-upon but lovable quiet one. The only actress given a chance is Candice Bergen & god bless her she is the only person to walk away from this unholy mess with her held held high.
The idea of having no men is surely to reinforce the understanding that women apart from men are fine thank you very much but instead the plot belittles that at every turn. Ryan's character not only falls to bits at her hubbies infidelities, keeps hankering after him, fails as a mother and friend but in the end is only happy when the unfaithful git begs to come back to her! Bennings character is destroyed by her being a career woman and even Bergen's mother has had to ignore her husbands unfaithfulness in order to survive. The icing on the whole cake is that they are all stock hollywood characters who are all rolling in money.
This is so confused that it could only be saved by some really sharp scripting. Unfortunately these proven & reliable actors are given nothing to work with, no humour, no insight & no depth. Add to this the ridiculous running time of 1hr 50 mins & the whole thing outstays it's welcome by a good 30 mins. Did the editor fall asleep?
If you want Meg Ryan doing her thing,( I'm not being snide, she really does rom com well), then 'French kiss' or 'Sleepless in Seattle' are great, if you want some reality then 'Friends with money' is excellent and if you're after the reality of a breakup then 'the breakup' is a painful but insightful watch. Of course if you really want to see how you don't need to cut the male of the species out of a film for it to show a multi-layered look at how women cope with relationships then 'American beauty' is unmissable and will leave you wondering why I was so generous & gave this sad mess a whole 2 stars!
The idea of having no men is surely to reinforce the understanding that women apart from men are fine thank you very much but instead the plot belittles that at every turn. Ryan's character not only falls to bits at her hubbies infidelities, keeps hankering after him, fails as a mother and friend but in the end is only happy when the unfaithful git begs to come back to her! Bennings character is destroyed by her being a career woman and even Bergen's mother has had to ignore her husbands unfaithfulness in order to survive. The icing on the whole cake is that they are all stock hollywood characters who are all rolling in money.
This is so confused that it could only be saved by some really sharp scripting. Unfortunately these proven & reliable actors are given nothing to work with, no humour, no insight & no depth. Add to this the ridiculous running time of 1hr 50 mins & the whole thing outstays it's welcome by a good 30 mins. Did the editor fall asleep?
If you want Meg Ryan doing her thing,( I'm not being snide, she really does rom com well), then 'French kiss' or 'Sleepless in Seattle' are great, if you want some reality then 'Friends with money' is excellent and if you're after the reality of a breakup then 'the breakup' is a painful but insightful watch. Of course if you really want to see how you don't need to cut the male of the species out of a film for it to show a multi-layered look at how women cope with relationships then 'American beauty' is unmissable and will leave you wondering why I was so generous & gave this sad mess a whole 2 stars!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
its always dodgy to to a remake of a classic, but this film is just perfect. an all star cast really seem to be enjoying themselves and it really works . its funny clever and what is more is actually inspiring. yes there is a really life to have after divorce. i would recommend it to anyone having a lousy divorce . claire hershman
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The Women - Not my cup of tea
Love a good 'chick flick' to relax with but this one wasn't for me. Not a good story at all in my view and i have quite a collection of similar type films but it's a matter of... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Grey Breeze
Loved it!
Not many people know that this film is a remake of an old black & white classic. This story should be appreciated for more than the appearance of being for 'chicks' only. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Merlin
The most boring film ever!
Me and my friend turned it off within half an hour. The acting was bad and it was so boring. Now whenever we watch a film we judge it by saying "Is it as bad as The Women? Read more
Published 13 months ago by cat1cat1cat1
Good Chick flick
Good girlie sunday afternoon curled up in your pjs with a hangover chick flick some very funny scenes think this may be one for just the girls though
Published 13 months ago by Boxer Girl
Watched this when it came out in the cinema and I enjoyed it then
and still enjoyed it on watching it again. In fact I can say that I picked up on other facets to this movie which had somehow passed me by during first watching. Read more
Published 14 months ago by G Star
third try
A remake of a remake of the real deal,the Joan Crawford film being the one to see, the story of a woman finding out ,about her husbands fling with joan C , is novel in as much as... Read more
Published 15 months ago by sueb
As misguided and inept a remake as you would never wish to see
In 1939 George Cukor made a wonderfully enjoyable all-female-cast comedy called "The Women". In 1956 there was a musical (I think) remake with men added, called "The Opposite Sex",... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Colin Tiller
Rather cliched but good fun
Meg Ryan's hair stars in this film about loyalty and friendship. She is supposed to be a slightly frumpy housewife (albeit a very wealthy and beautiful one) who has sacrificed her... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Camilla Macaulay
Very Disappointing
Disappointed with this, after seeing the trailer for it on another DVD thought I'd buy it and watch it. I did watch it, only once, very uninteresting, sold it on ebay afterwards!! Read more
Published 18 months ago by Carrie Shoes
Nothing special
just another Rom Com - nothing special OK for a Sunday afternoon snooze and view
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