AMR (Ally's Movie Review) - The Women

First off, I would like to introduce you all to my new column for my blog - AMR or Ally's Movie Review. My reviews will be full of grammatical mistakes, personal opinion, non-objective nonsense and maybe praise for a movie you would consider ridiculously horrible. That being said, you have been warned. But in that same regard, I rarely have the opportunity to actually see movies so lucky for you - you won't have to read too many of these.



Every good movie review has a rating system. Here is mine.

***** Hello? Stand in line for hours...to see it the 10th time

**** Movie popcorn, surround sound here we come

*** Remote control purchase - tivo it so you can watch it a 2nd time

** If its free you might tolerate it...have alternate plan ready

* WTH? I need those precious minutes out of my life back





My first review: The Women

http://thewomenthemovie.com/index.html


OK there are NO men in this movie -- so if you're looking for eye candy, go see the Dark Knight and check out Christian Bale. Even without the Y chromosome, the cast is quite "popular" - Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Candice Bergen, Bette Midler, Eva Mendes, and Carrie Fisher (HELLO Princess Leia!). I really loved Annette Bening and her flaws. A good flawed character with awesome shoes and nice fingernails makes potential for a HIT of a movie. Meg Ryan - wow do I miss her short pixie hair. I guess the long blonde hair is very fashionable, but I LOVE HER SHORT HAIR! Anyway, they are the core best friend team and the others are the wing-me err wing women. I think Candice Bergen STOLE the show acting as Mary's (Meg Ryan) supportive - lovable mother. As you can imagine, a flick with all women, about women, for women alongside a man who cheats - is the perfect recipe for the *cue horror music* "slaughter of the male". So much so, that I felt sorry for the one male in our audience tonight. Girls don't torture the one true love of your life and make them see this!!!!

OK so we have a group of girls and a man who cheats and (don't forget) the hot sexy nasty viscious mistress (Eva). Yep. That's it. Oh there are some cute humorous lines, a stellar cast (even smoking marijuana no less!), and some really great handbags and leather skirts. Bottom line: this movie lacked substance for me in more ways than one. I could watch this on Oxygen one weekend during nappy time about a year from now and have been just as content.

My final take: Two and a half stars - Wait for it to show up on your Tivo - a year from now