5/5 i love it
  by Tee (North Carolina, USA)
I already love the movie because it has Jada Pinkett in it and she is my favorite, although she is not seen throughtout the movie like the other cast members. This movie is a type of laid back movie that anyone can watch. It's not soft enough to be considered a chick flick, and certainly not hard enough to the point where all the boyz want to go and see it. I love the movie. It's comedy sure enough...I bought it used through Amazon and it arrived in 4 days of my ordering it.

1/5 Skip it
  by Sherlock (Chicago, Illinois)
Well, with this terrific cast, I had my hopes up, the bad reviews notwithstanding, but boy, was I wrong. What a disaster from start to finish, with very contrived dialogue, poor direction and the actors looking like they were struggling to make the best of bad material. I was shocked that Diane English, a very talented and funny writer was behind this travesty. Definitely a waste of time - skip it!

3/5 A clever script that stranded in the middle of nowhere!
  by Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela)
Diane English picked up and rearranged the missing pieces of the romantic comedy genre, based on the multidimensional affective feminine universe. But smartly she focuses her whole attention around seven well defined characters; the first three are of course Meg Ryan as the devoted wife always trying to shine as human being. But living into a happy bubble (living in a beautiful home at Connecticut, married with a successful executive and supported by her best friend (Annette Bening) - the second main character - she will have to have to face the world when she hits the bottom at the moment she realizes her husband cheats her with the alluring Eva Mendes. The third main character is her mother (the lovable and still beautiful Candice Bergen) who will support her according her particular style, and finally we have Ryan's daughter a girl who's living the hard transition of the adolescence (with its doubts and fears) . But the other three secondary roles turn around Eva Mendes the seductive lover of Stephen Haines, (who looks fine in this role); the pregnant friend (who expects this birth with hope and illusion) and the lesbian character (who lives with a super model).

New York is the big stage, the fashion world and its well known dissonances rounds an entire and passable film with a happy ending when the different destinies of these women intersect themselves.

Curiously there's no single shot with a masculine character all the way through. We just listen far references (as the telephone call with Ryan's husband).

A very well written script makes of this movie a pleasant and enriching experience for making us think.

But the raw material was by far much more promising that the final outcome.


1/5 A GREAT film to get rid of your in laws during the up coming holiday season
  by Bob Waskiewicz (Wintersville, Ohio United States)
What a waste of great talent to be in a movie like this,and what the hell happened to Meg Ryan? She was always so cute and pretty,now her face is so botox abused,it hardly moves.My Sister saw "The Women" at the theather when it came out last year,and half the audience was asleep,and the other half left before the film was over.If you want to get rid of your in laws this holiday season,put "THe Women" on your blue ray DVD player.

3/5 Lightweight estrogen comedy
  by One-Line Film Reviews (Easton, MD)
The Bottom Line:

It's not only the lack of any actor with a Y chromosome that makes The Women feel like it should be airing on the Lifetime network: between the ham-handed direction, weak writing, and superfluity of characters in a short film, The Women is a featherlight comedy that might be the type of film to watch on an airplane but that's about the best recommendation I can muster.

2.5/4