This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I'm out of sync with the world on some of the later Altman films. While I liked 'Cookie's Fortune' less than most folks, I liked this more. I found it funny, sweet, and it contains one of Richard Gere's very best performances. The much maligned last 20 minutes are indeed a mixed bag. However, personally I liked the symbolic, surreal conclusion, even if some of the plot twists leading up to it felt clunky, and didn't make a lot of sense.The bottom line is, this is certainly more original and thought-provoking than most modern movies. And that's enough to win a lot of brownie points from me

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(&(**^^%!

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.

Great cast of female actors of all ages, beautifully filmed sets, all good to look at. Hudson is the pick of the bunch - the rest have even less to get their teeth into. However it is lazily written and directed. Pretty to look at and easy on the brain - ideal for lazing in front of the TV on a wet, winter's night. Won't satisfy demanding geeks, but there is a place for this type of undemanding entertainment in my video collection, for I don't always feel the need to assault my senses with effects, gimmicks, plot twists and the like. The feel-good factor outweighs the shortcomings, so give it a go if you're in the mood for something light.