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Article: [0] `What Women Want'.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 13, 2000
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The lines "Can I pick your brain?" and "I hear you" take on a new, chuckle-out-loud literalness in "What Women Want," a romantic romp in which Mel Gibson _ as a chauvinist ladykiller and the "least politically-correct guy in the universe" _ gets loose and goosey, wiggles into pantyhose and even does a song and dance number with a hat and a coatstand.
The premise _ simple and sublime _ is plucked from "X-Files" territory while the delivery (by director Nancy Meyers) offers a sort of post-feminist, 21st century take on a Rock Hudson-Doris Day flick (complete with a soundtrack of vintage Sinatra). One evening, in a supernatural coincidence of booze, bath water, ...