At least the actors are strong enough to keep us engaged, and they deliver their lines impeccably, from the spicy comedy to the teary drama.
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09/12/08
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The Women (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 12
Rotten:110
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Consensus: The Women is a toothless remake of the 1939 classic, lacking the charm, wit and compelling protagonists of the original.
Theatrical Release: 12-09-2008
Synopsis: Packed with an all-star cast, Diane English's (MURPHY BROWN) contemporary version of THE WOMEN showcases the talents of Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen, and Debra Messing. Like the 1939 original, the film... [More]
Starring: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing
Director: Diane English
Reviews for The Women
As female ensemble movies go, The Women is no Sex and the City, but it remains watchable thanks to strong performances from Meg Ryan, Annette Bening and Candice Bergen.
09/12/08
It's so flat and unfunny it makes Sex and the City sound like Billy Wilder.
09/12/08
The Women has a cast to die for – Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Candice Bergen, Carrie Fisher – in a film that dies before our eyes.
09/12/08
But the only bit to set red-blooded males’ pulses racing is when Eva Mendes bends over in sexy suspenders.
09/12/08
Admittedly, I am a man, but I am partial to a good chick flick. This one made me feel as if I had been trapped in the perfume hall at Selfridges.
09/12/08
Like real women, this goes on. And on and on. For almost two hours. God, does it go on.
09/12/08
Once English has wheeled on Carrie Fisher and – horror of horrors – Bette Midler in a wildly unnecessary cameo, all momentum and fun have emigrated to another planet.
09/12/08
Top Critic The Women, is a costly and bemusing disaster. Dull is too kind a word.
09/12/08
Top Critic
Top Critic It is difficult to determine whether this adaptation of the old Clare Boothe Luce play, and the 1939 George Cukor film version of it, is a calculated insult to all women or just a poorly directed effort to understand the fair sex.
09/11/08
In a post Ab Fab world, The Women is distinctly Ab Blab - an awful lot of nattering that has little edge.
09/11/08
While The Women provides an evening of laughter and some points to ponder, relationships work only when all involved are willing to sacrifice for one another.
09/29/08
I feel bad for women that The Women is the kind of movie Hollywood makes for you.
09/26/08
English puts plenty of pithy one-liners in her characters' mouths, seemingly oblivious that the film's having-it-all feminist mantra was lapped by Ally McBeal and Sex & the City about a decade ago.
09/26/08
The most disappointing aspect of The Women is how few laughs it delivers.
09/19/08
It takes ovaries the size of Alaska to update a classic like George Cukor's 1939 catfight "The Women," but that's just what Diane English has done--and nobody should thank her for it.
09/18/08
No barbs, no bite, no passion; the claws stay sheathed and the film stays bland
09/18/08
They say that you can never have too much of a good thing, but in this case, there's so much talent and only so much time that most of the actresses are wasted in cameo roles.
09/17/08
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