What Women Want

If the idea of Mel Gibson in black pantyhose and a Wonderbra strikes you as appealing, then this romantic comic fantasy from director Nancy Meyers (whose screenwriting credits include the remakes of FATHER OF THE BRIDE and THE PARENT TRAP) most definitely wants to come into your life. If not, well then, "Houston, we have a problem." WHAT WOMEN WANT is a wildly overblown, unpleasantly smirky mess of a film. Bachelor cad Nick Marshall (Gibson) is catnip to the ladies and a hotshot at a huge Chicago ad agency. After what seems like an interminable set-up, two major upheavals shake his life: The promotion he thinks he deserves goe...