The Women – 2008
Cast: Meg Ryan, Jada Packet Smith, Debra Messing, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Candice Bergen
Director: Diane English
Rating: 
The Women… A title so strong and influential that was chosen to speak for itself… but actually it didn’t! What the movie was supposed to reflect is not what a woman really is…
The poster, to start with, is so phony; looks and facial expressions are almost cartoonish. Come on! We all know how the actresses look like… there shouldn’t have been a “Touch-up Squad” to turn the “The Women” into Wax Statues. Heading precisely to the look of every actress… all soaked with shallowness… a human exposé of “Bratz”… that is how impressed I was.
Moving inwards to the cast of the movie; well it can’t get any worse! Enough with Meg Ryan’s Cuteness… she is too old for redoing ‘Sally” all over again… not colorful what so ever… and Annette Bening, I seriously used to like her; What happened to the “American Beauty” and “Running with Scissors” material we used to expect? Why did she have to end up being a Fashion Magazine Editor?
The movie as a package had soft edges with the tiny pieces of its so called “Scenario”; No proper story line, no logical sequence, and no plot to thicken. I simply couldn’t take anything seriously and I couldn’t laugh at the same time… the movie came out when the genre wasn’t decided yet so they kept it that way…
As a woman of this fast paced modern world, I didn’t feel the connection… and on the contrary, I didn’t relate to any of the women; neither when I am amusing nor I when I am theatrical… this is not how me or my fellow women work, shop, communicate with family, gather with friends, or get over crisis…
The faultless cliché of it all is how four vastly different personalities form the most powerful bond ever… All are rich and perfectly toned… none is fairly pretty and economically humble. so as the rule goes of such movies, there is always the most popular of them all; the one who everybody considers as a best friend, the one who is so always giving the right advices, the one who still on her darkest days manages to save her perfect curls and funny attitude, the one who’s ever sought after feminine dream comes true… can’t it get any conventional?!! I felt offended on behalf of all “The Women” as this is not the truth… we don’t all wear designers bags, get a manicure every other day, and end up being fashion designers…
The cinema industry has witnessed more powerful personages of women throughout the years reflected in different shades of personalities… some were bold and edgy as in The Hours and others were fun and cheerful as in Sex & The City… and we all loved these women…
So what’s with the remakes anyway? This movie is a remake of 1939 version and as we have witnessed this year, none turned out to be successful… are we really out of good stories now? Is creativity on the edge of extinction? I’d like to think not…
So I say this and I say it loud… for every woman who prefers to spend her time in doing something better than getting labeled… skip this one.
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