Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Usamah Harvey The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

museumofdave OK, I'm in the minority on this one. I liked it. And here's why:At the beginning of this quirky immersion in a world of women, I was reminded of George Cukor's classic The Women, where a live man is never seen on camera, but men are constantly being talked about; in this film, women are almost always on screen, talking about other women, and being watched by the benevolent Dr. T., beautifully underplayed in a wry performance by usual lady-killer Richard Gere.When men appear in this film, they are usually in camouflage of some sort , and they too, are talking about women. Though satirical in nature (the young guide who thoughtlessly points out grisly details of the Kennedy Assassination site in Dallas, the patient who absolutely has to smoke while having the most intimate exam, etc.), this is also an affectionate look at women who each has her own fantasy, her own desires, and some lucky few are able to realize them, often without the help of Dr. T. The narrative is indeed scattered, but Altman's strengths have never been homogenized storytelling; this is complex and witty fun for those in the mood. It is not a sweet little romance or does not seem to be a film about female bonding, but is a look askance at human behavior in one of it's many manifestations.

glennataylor This had to be the single most annoying movie I have EVER seen! Sixteen harping women talking over each other for two hours (it seemed like six), even in Spanish, please save your ears and eyes, you would be better off watching Stooges Reruns. OMG! How can this even be called a movie. There was not a single tolerable scene in the movie, it stereotypes women, the acting is absolutely horrid! Farrah may be built like a brick s-house, but she still can't act her way out of a wet paper bag, although this movie may have been just right for her, she acts like a brainless infant the entire movie, because she's loved too much, I mean really, who thinks this garbage up. And, on top of it, it's not even a love story, I don't really know what it was, a cluster-F(&(**^^%!

MBunge If you showed this movie to the survivors of the Rwandan genocide and asked them which was worse, seeing their families hacked to death with machetes or watching Dr. T and the Women…only some of them would choose the machetes.Dr. T (Richard Gere) is a gynecologist in Dallas, Texas. He has a wife (Farrah Fawcett) who's gone crazy, a daughter (Kate Hudson) who's getting married, another daughter (Tara Reid) who is half plot-device and half lame joke about the Kennedy assassination, a sister-in-law (Laura Dern)who is a lush and a horde of yapping women who jam his waiting room like it's an overstuffed hothouse of demanding Southern Belles. Though he's drowning in a stormy sea of estrogen, Dr. T is an insanely, sickeningly perfect man who is totally understanding of all of the crazy feminine behavior that buffets him every day. His only respite from it all are hunting trips with his buddies and an affair with the new golf pro at his country club, Bree (Helen Hunt).Like many Robert Altman films, the plot of this movie just sort of slowly spreads out in all directions like vomit on a bare floor. There's also enough trademarked Altman-babble in this thing to choke even his most devoted fans. Dr. T and the Woman is morally confused, emotionally phony, head-slappingly contrived and has an ending so stupid and bizarre that it would take an entire team of mental health professionals to figure out what the hell Altman was thinking. If there was ever a film that could be introduced at a competency hearing as evidence of senile dementia, it's this one.In fairness, most of the acting here is very mannered but relatively okay. The best performance actually comes from Shelley Long as Dr. T's long-suffering head nurse. She's funny and lively and the most enjoyable person on screen, until her character is brutally sacrificed on the altar of Altman's barnacle encrusted sense of humor. Helen Hunt might have been just as good as the independent Bree, but after creating the character it's really damn clear Altman didn't have the slightest idea what to do with her.If you're still not clear on how awesomely bad Dr. T and the Women is, Helen Hunt gets briefly but clearly naked in it and it's still unwatchable. That's right. It makes naked Helen Hunt unappealing. That's a magical feat on the order of turning lead into gold, which would make Robert Altman the master alchemist of cinematic suck.Now, if some Altman fans happen to stumble upon this review, I can already hear their excuses about how his films aren't meant to be conventionally entertaining and you have to appreciate his creative vision and I just don't "get it" and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The fact that several decades ago he injected some juice into American movies should not give Altman a get-out-of-jail-free card for the rest of his career. The fact that he keeps recycling the same old bag of tricks is not creative vision. It's a guy who doesn't have anything new to say as a storyteller.This movie is terrible. Even if you've liked some of Altman's other work, do not watch it.

MartianOctocretr5 Obviously a chick flick, women basically poking fun at themselves.The acting is over wrought for comedic effect, but goes too far, to the point of making the characters manic caricatures of themselves. With a banner cast like this film has, you should like somebody, but there's nobody to like. Their motivations are never understood, other than the overdone gender cliché, and therefore you are left only with mocking them. They are deliberately played as foolish desperate housewives, the hoi paloi of influential Dallas society. In spite of the director's awkward approach, some of the women turn in good performances. In particular, Goldie Hawn and Shelly Long bring dimension to their otherwise thinly written roles.A gynecologist is surrounded by women in every aspect of his life; work, family etc. He has some militia-style hunting buddies he hunts with, but that's it for male bonding. By the way, Elmer Fudd has a better chance of catching Bugs Bunny than these guys have of catching anything.Someone other than Richard Gere should have been cast in this role. He always looks like his mouth doesn't open properly, as if he needs jaw surgery. He has no comedic smarts, either, and ends up looking more psychotic than any of the female stereotypes. The wedding scene's predictable "twist" doesn't work, but the storm analogy was actually pretty good, and that would have made a fitting close to the story. But no, there is a woeful freak-out ending tacked on that pounds the whole movie into hamburger. What worked for Judy Garland in 1939 does not work for Gere this time around. 'Nuff said.Has moments, and the cast raises it far above the scripting.