In a December 2000 review for Salon, Stephanie Zacharek encouraged readers to think about why the “aggressively offensive” What Women Want was being produced then, zeroing in on the film’s premise that men are now forced to listen to women because of their increased buying power.
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But while it’s thorny to relitigate an old movie by modern societal standards, we don’t have to: The movie’s unevenness and reliance on gender essentialism was as irritating in 2000 as it is in retrospect.
Times have changed, and an easy thought is that What Women Want would probably be received much differently today. He redeems himself by learning to listen to what women have to say and taking their opinions and concerns to heart. He finally tries to understand his teenage daughter, whose burgeoning sexuality he struggles to accept he stops an employee from killing herself he falls in love with coworker Darcy Maguire (Helen Hunt), who at the start of the movie can’t stand him.
But having access to thoughts and ideas besides his own slowly forces a change. Like many thoughtless goons might, he uses that power to steal ideas from his female colleagues, and manipulate his regular barista into sleeping with him. The original film tells the story of Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson), an adman involved in a freak accident that gives him the power to read women’s minds. Whether it lives up to its marketing as a feminist grifter story remains to be seen, but it doesn’t have the high nostalgic or critical bar to meet that other remakes did, like 2016’s women-driven Ghostbusters remake. While the specifics of the plot are still a mystery, we do know that Henson will play a black woman struggling to advance in her company, who uses her newfound power to navigate the workplace boy’s club. Henson-starring remake of the 2000 Nancy Meyers film What Women Want. This week, Netflix released the first trailer for What Men Want, a Taraji P.
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