The First Wives Club (1996) User Reviews

A pleasant surprise

[jimbo-53-186511 · 7/10 · 26 December 2013]

I came into this film with fairly low expectations as I wasn't sure that it would be my sort of thing. However, I must admit that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

The premise is rather simple and focuses on 3 old college friends who end up re-united due to the death of their old college friend Cynthia (Stockard Channing). The 3 college friends are Elise Elliot (Goldie Hawn), Brenda Cushman (Bette Midler) and Annie Paradis (Diane Keaton). Whilst, the circumstances surrounding their reunion are unfortunate, the 3 women use this opportunity to catch up. Whilst, it is clear that they have lived rather different lives since they left college, they find that they all have one thing in common; their husband's have left them for/cheated on them with young women. With the 3 protagonists feeling disgruntled about the way they've been treated, they decide to set up the First Wives Club and take revenge on their cheating husbands;

Whilst, the film is rather slow to get moving, I did find that this to be an enjoyable film. This film was a lot of fun with plenty of laughs. The 3 protagonists characters were all well developed and some of the schemes they come up with to get their own back on their respective partners were rather clever. I felt that Goldie Hawn gave the stand out performance, but that's not to discredit Midler and Keaton who were also fantastic.

What really impressed me about the First Wives Club was the ending (which I won't give away), but let's just say that there was slightly more to it than meets the eye.

All in all, this was a fun ride with plenty of laughs. The plot summary will suggest that it is geared more towards women and if I'm honest I think that more women will enjoy this than men. Having said that I'm a man and I still enjoyed it. Give it a try!

Marriage Veterans

[bkoganbing · 7/10 · 9 June 2016]

The short cameo appearance of Stockard Channing as she takes leave of this life after being dumped by her husband for a younger model galvanizes three of her friends Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, and Diane Keaton to take some action other than sit on their alimony which can be a sometimes thing.

Belaboring the obvious what they all have in common is that they were all first wives, veterans of marriage who get dumped by their husbands going into midlife crisis. The First Wives Club is open to any women who feel they've been put through the ringer in their divorces, don't just get mad, get more than even.

Goldie Hawn is an aging actress who goes through all kinds of makeup and plastic surgery just to stay young. Graduate to character roles Goldie, better than you did that. Diane Keaton is this sunny optimist whose world was her marriage and she still tries to maintain her sunny outlook on life. Midler is the most bitter of all as her family money and connections help start Dan Hedaya's successful furniture business.

It's Hedaya who suffers the most, but he's also the most likely in the end to realize what a jerk he's been. Of all the supporting roles I liked Philip Bosco best as Midler's Uncle Carmine. It irks him how his niece has been disgraced for as he puts it, he started his business with a lot of merchandise that fell off the back of a truck.

Goldie Hawn's best scene is with her cosmetic surgeon Rob Reiner who tells her she's over the legal limit for botox. Hawn is beginning to sound like Gloria Swanson on being an aging actress, but no way is she ready for any closeup believe it or not Mr. DeMille.

In fact her ex who is a producer has the chutzpah to want Hawn to play mother in his next picture opposite Elizabeth Berkley the teenage bimbo he wants to go back to his teen years with.

Maggie Smith who is a marriage veteran herself who keeps herself nicely from alimony is friend to these women. Watch some of her work with the world's worst interior decorator Bronson Pinchot.

In the end the women get into a worthwhile endeavor and do realize revenge is sweet but there's more to life than getting even.

The First Wives Club is built nicely on the foundation of the good chemistry developed between the three first wives. And they get good ensemble support as well. A nice comedy from the 90s.

A comedy, perhaps...but there are also MANY dark moments and a deeper message.

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 6 November 2011]

If you watch "The First Wives Club" because you need a good laugh, perhaps you should try another film. Yes, it clearly has some funny moments but it also is filled with dark ones--and a message you wouldn't expect to find in a simple comedy. You KNOW it's going to be a dark film at the beginning, as a lady whose husband has left her takes her own life. This horrible event brings some of her old friends to the funeral--and there they compare notes and see that they, too, were used and cast aside by their husbands--husbands who have no replaced them with trophy wives. So, the three friends (Bette Midler, Diane Keaton and Goldie Hawn) concoct a plan--a plan that involves fleecing their unfaithful ex-husbands and creating a club for wives going through the same sort of situations they have.

As I said, there are some dark moments and some funny ones. But the film never falls to the level of slapstick or becomes mostly comedy--but a mix. Some may not like this and the film is a bit heavy-handed at times, but the overall film is well worth seeing and has a decent feminist message. Worth seeing.

Silly, fun movie

[jruwaldt · 22 December 2000]

This is a silly movie with plenty of entertaining comedy. Any male-bashing in it is clearly intended in good fun, even if it's dead serious for the characters. I found absolutely nothing offensive about this film, recognizing it for the light-hearted fun it is. A lot of men ARE scum. This just isn't the sort of comedy where generalizations and stereotypes are dangerous and offensive. In contrast, I was rather frustrated by Waiting to Exhale, because I felt it was too serious in its male-bashing. The women in First Wives Club seemed clever and delightfully devious, whereas the women in Waiting to Exhale seemed to prefer to sit around discussing how evil men are and plotting bits of petty revenge that showed how superior they are, not to mention setting fire to their husbands' property. First Wives Club takes a more constructive and intelligent approach to the problem and does so with much hilarity. I don't see how anyone can be offended by something as fun as this. I also find a comparison to Birth of a Nation to be very stretched, particularly since the attitudes in First Wives Club are not as dangerous, and, as I have reiterated several times, they are not intended to be serious. Overall, I would rate this film at least a seven.

Fun

[ajralley · 7/10 · 1 June 2021]

It's a good movie if you are looking for a few hours of laughs. The film is brilliantly funny, especially in a second part.

women well past their prime can still have fun

[THEgongoozler · 7/10 · 20 January 2023]

The plot: 2 out of 10

the production: 4 out of 10

the direction: 6 out of 10

the cast: 8 out of 10

"You Don't Own Me" song and dance at the ending and credit roll: 10 out of 10.

THE FIRST WIVES CLUB (1996) is clean, lighthearted and conveying an message easily understood. A bit silly, yes, particularly the two characters by Maggie Smith and Sarah Jessica Parker. Husbands are all portrayed as sex hungry low-wit. Filled with stereotype and cliché, yet TFWC wins the hearts of million people.

The reason? Well, let me give you three words: Keaton, Hawn and Midler. They are the keys why audience watch this movie, they are the keys why audience LOVE this movie.

Holds up well.

[mandagrammy · 7/10 · 23 March 2019]

This older film still holds up well after 20 + years. It has an edge to it that makes you laugh, but not all the jokes hit home every time. It is fun seeing the performers who went on to even greater acclaim later on, such as Sarah Jessica Parker and Victor Garber. And, of course, you can't miss with a powerful threesome like Goldie, Diane, and Bette. Two thumbs up for this one.

When Bad Stories Happen to Good Actresses

[nycritic · 4/10 · 18 July 2005]

It doesn't matter that the reviews of the book version of THE FIRST WIVES CLUB were generally good. It doesn't take away from the fact that it's nothing more than a thinly disguised bad story with a potentially wicked set-up that has seen better days and which not even the good chemistry of the three main performers can save.

On learning of the death of their one-time college friend Cynthia Swann-Griffin (Stockard Channing in an all-too-brief cameo) due to the abandonment from her husband, three recently divorced women, Annie Paradis (Diane Keaton), Elise Eliott (Goldie Hawn), and Brenda Cushman (Bette Midler) come together to get back at their former husbands by essentially taking away their freedom. Sounds familiar? In 1989, Roseanne Barr and Meryl Streep starred in SHE DEVIL, a bad (but compared to this trash, a classic) movie adaptation of the novel of the same name in which a middle-class wife, on being dumped by her husband for a successful romance novelist, decides to destroy her home, her family, and take away her husband's freedom by starting her own "club" for women in the same situation as she. Even farther to 1980: 9 TO 5 told a similar story about three co-workers (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton) who band together to make mincemeat of their male chauvinistic pig of a boss played by Dabney Coleman, and essentially prove to the entire office that woman make work more efficient. And even farther, to 1939, to a classic and the mother of all "desperate housewives": THE WOMEN brilliantly told the acid tale of how society women lose their husbands to social climbers, and while Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) does what no feminist would do -- go back to her unseen Stephen -- it is still a powerful tale of women, their men, and how they survive in a Darwinistic society where bitches eat bitches for lunch while playing bridge at 5 PM. And at the same time gave many of its actresses (all icons, from Joan Crawford to Paulette Goddard to Rosalind Russell to the great Lucille Watson) roles to sink their teeth in, something that has essentially gone South in the Hollywood of today.

But not to digress, even though I am talking of the same essential theme, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB should have been a much better movie than it is. All of the elements are there to make its comedy not only dark, but biting, cruel, politically incorrect (contrary to its PC nature), and not tack on the saccharine, cloying mess that pretends to be an ending. At the same time, there has to be something to like about in these three women: Annie comes across as vaguely sympathetic (a more intellectual version of Mary Haines), but her shrillness is so over-the-top and her transformation from klutz to business entrepreneur so unbelievable it's not possible to feel for her. Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn do better with what little material they've been given while still being little more than caricatures. Hawn at least does poke fun at Hollywood's treatment of actresses which may also be at her own "persona" which has (as Elise Eliott says) refused to age, but other than that, there's not much bite in her resolve to do her husband in.

Then we have the supporting characters, none which fare any better. What is Bronson Pinchot doing as (yet another) affected character stupidly named "Duarto Feliz?" (Don't writers do their research in writing about characters with Spanish names?) None of the younger women are written as little more as props, though at least Sarah Jessica Parker has a couple of lines that hint of a different version of Carrie Bradshaw. The husbands... well... they're essentially unrepentant jerks, and while in THE WOMEN they remained invisible, there was the idea that in that story they were actual people. That inexplicably, Dan Hedaya's character suddenly does an about-face at the end seems made to satisfy at least a part of the audience who would want to see at least one of the women retain their partner. And what's with Annie having a lesbian daughter if it doesn't tie into anything else in the story? That lesbians hate men and make great allies to jilted women everywhere? I didn't get it, I still don't get it, and it didn't work for me.

It just proves that a bad screenplay filled with unsympathetic characters will kill the central idea in a story, but also, that an equally bad direction with odd takes and bad editing will further the damage. Stockard Channing's death scene is so badly filmed it might as well been an afterthought from another movie that somehow found its way here. The sequence when Keaton, Midler, Hawn, and Pinchot intercept Dan Hedaya's apartment is another study in absolute ineptitude in creating comic slapstick, but then again, so is the sequence when Keaton discovers her husband wants to divorce her and in pops Marcia Gay Harden: what a lost opportunity to really make it the best moment on the screen! Didn't anyone do their homework? Does anyone recall the scene in THE WOMEN when Sylvia Fowler finds out her husband is set to marry Miriam Aarons (who is right in front of her) and then rips into her in a memorable cat-fight? That was a scene: this was a travesty. Which most of this movie is, anyway.

great entertainment

[theappleorchardeh · 10/10 · 20 November 2006]

Although many feel that the movie fell short I think they missed the point of the movie. The movie starts showing four very different women, and flashes back 25+ years ago when they were close collage friends. Their lives have taken them in four different directions and their lives are very different from each other. The movie isn't about making fun of men, divorce, fame or fortune. Its about women friends - not casual "how are you, nice to see you again" friends - the kind of friends who know the you way down deep inside, and don't let you get away with anything because they know you too well. These women interact in a way that men will never understand, but that most women will identify with.

In the end, this movie is great entertainment. Pure and simple. No great message to deliver - just relax and enjoy it, thats what its there for!

Perfect for divorce-es

[blueflame1991 · 7/10 · 19 September 2008]

Not that i'm generalizing here, but I think this movie is great if you have been wronged by a man in any way similar to these women. It may contain a bit of man-bashing, it may generalize middle-aged men as skirt-chasing losers, but there ARE men like that out there, and if you don't take it too seriously it really isn't a problem. This movie is kinda like a middle-aged chick flick, where anything is possible and revenge is exacted perfectly. Personally, I watch this when i'm feeling a bit bitter, because even if the storyline isn't that deep and meaningful, there's some good comedy in it. I haven't read the book that the movie was based on, so i can't judge in that respect, but i really enjoyed this film.

Divorced from reality...

[majikstl · 3/10 · 4 March 2004]

To understand where the film is coming from all you have to do is note that it features cameo guest appearances by both Ivana Trump and Gloria Steinem. The former, of course, is known for having gained all her wealth, power and fame from exploiting the wealth, power and fame of her husband/ex-husband and the latter is noted for gaining all her wealth, power and fame from her male-bashing bigotry. The film embraces both of these icons with equal self-righteousness.

THE FIRST WIVES CLUB film expects us to accept the notion that divorce in America is decidedly pro-male, designed to cheat women. This, it seems, is especially true if the women are white, well-educated, upper-class and socially prominent. While most people would be hard pressed to see such women as society's victims, the film takes it for granted that they are and expects us to never question that notion. If you don't, you will likely enjoy the film greatly. If you have even one working brain cell in your head, you should be rightly amazed at the gall the filmmakers have to so blatantly insult your intelligence.

The film deals with three former college chums, now middle-aged wives, who, coincidentally, are facing divorce all at the same time. The three are Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler -- three absolutely wonderful actresses. Because the system is so anti-female, the three have to resort to blackmail, kidnapping, extortion and racketeering in order to wrestle the family wealth out of the hands of their dimwitted husbands. It is notable that in the cases of Keaton and Midler's characters, they claim to deserve their husbands' money because they helped and supported them early in their careers. Meanwhile, in Hawn's case, her husband worked as her business manager and helped her become a leading film star, but she claims that she is the bread winner in the family and therefore he is entitled to nothing. The film is so dull-witted that it presents these conflicting plotlines and is totally oblivious to their obvious irony. The film's logic is clear: What's his is hers; what's hers is hers and what's theirs is hers.

Battle of the sexes comedies can be great fun, but only if both sides are evenly matched and equally clever -- think Kate and Spencer, Doris and Rock, or even Lucy and Desi. This lame film tries to stack the deck by pandering to feminist stereotypes: Women are better, but victimized; men are evil, but stupid. The irony is that by the end of the film the men are the sympathetic victims and the three leading actresses come off as smug monsters (thus the tacked on ending wherein they donate their ill-gotten loot to open a shelter for abused women -- apparently you can buy off guilt).

The really sad thing about this sorrowful little mess of a movie is that it wastes the talents of the three terrific leading ladies. They are victimized, not in the movie, but by the movie.

Strange How Underrated This Movie Is

[MoviesForAM · 10/10 · 9 December 2014]

"First Wives Club" is an example of excellent movie making. The pacing, the continuity, the look of the scenes and the characterizations are all very funny and charming and entertaining. For a big budget holiday movie made to make money, it does its job and does it very well. Midler is especially excellent. So is Dan Hedaya as her ex and Dame Maggie Smith as a friend indeed. I think that the major reason that the movie is unappreciated by too many critics is because it's a "woman's picture." It's designed to be a very light comedy that brings in women and their families to generate box office. Whatever its genre, however, the movie works in every way it's intended to work. The sets are great, the costumes are perfect and the acting is really funny and also touching when it needs to be, such as when Sarah Jessica Parker says to Bette Midler, "Brenda, this outfit might look really good on you... why don't you try one on in YOUR SIZE!" Midler's fury suddenly deflates, and she exhibits pathos. Lots of funny lines and facial expressions and over-the-top emotion, and the directing was, I think, very precise and well done.

Midler, Keaton and Hawn as the Three Stooges

[evanston_dad · 6/10 · 17 June 2009]

A goofy comedy designed as a star vehicle for its three leading ladies, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler.

Is it a good movie? Not really. But does that matter? Not really. It mostly succeeds based on the sheer talent of the three actresses involved, who could probably make a movie about the invention of barbed wire funny if they had to.

I don't know that this movie presents a very flattering image of middle-aged women, but since middle-aged women seem to be the ones who most love this film, if they don't mind, why should I?

Grade: B

Could have been a good farce, could have been a good message film, ended up being neither

[ken98465 · 5/10 · 28 December 2001]

OK, I know this is a chick flick and I am anatomically incorrect. Still, I had high hopes for First Wives Club until about half way through. It looked like it was headed towards over-the-top farce like The Jerk or Adventures In Babysitting. Then it detoured and tried to be "important". Very few films can succeed at both. Willing suspense of disbelief works in a farce, but "important" movies need a coherent plot. The plot and the comedy both die midway, leaving us to wait for a painfully trite conclusion.

At least that's the way this non-chick saw it.

Instructive - maybe not; hilarious - definitely!

[Geofbob · 20 November 2001]

Like Nine to Five, First Wives Club purports to be making a statement - albeit in comedy mode - about a serious feminist issue, but like that movie is simply an opportunity to portray women getting back at men who have taken advantage of them - and why not?! While the film may have little practical application to the majority of women who are "traded in" for newer models, but whose men are not as well heeled as the husbands in this film, it does provide them with 100 minutes of escapist entertainment from three great American actresses - OK Bette Midler may not be the best actress in the world but she's certainly hugely entertaining.

Midler plays one of three 60s college friends, who meet 25 years later and find that they've each been deserted - her businessman ex-hubby keeps her short of cash while buying skimpy designer dresses for his skimpy girlfriend (Sarah Jessica Parker). The other two in the triumvirate are Diane Keaton as a diffident door-mat, and Goldie Hawn as an alcoholic and facelifted filmstar. But this is one movie where there is no doubt about the characters undergoing an "arc" during its course, and hardly anyone emerges unaltered. Along the way, there are lots of laughs, a few tears, and an unforgettable rendition of You Don't Own Me. Elsewhere on IMDb, some ungenerous souls have used the word hysterical to describe this movie; hysterically funny is nearer the mark.

Don't get even. Get everything

[davispittman · 7/10 · 24 June 2015]

In 1996's the first wives club, we are told the story of 4 Middle Aged college friends: Annie, Brenda, Elise, and Cynthia. Each of them had husbands leave them for younger women. Cynthia commits suicide within the 1st 10 minutes of the movie, suffering from drinking and depression when her husband left her for a much younger, better looking woman. They all decide to get together and in Cynthias honor and get revenge from their husbands. This movie offers up very funny jokes situations and also features women empowerment. In the end it offers up a great message. And also features a great cast from Bette Midler(Hocus pocus) to Goldie Hawn(Private Benjamin) to Diane Keaton(father of the bride) Stockard Channing (Grease) as Cynthia, Sarah Jessica Parker(sex and the city) and Elizabeth Berkley(Showgirls). As you would expect from this A-list cast, the acting is very good in this film. There's also a very funny scene in a lesbian night club, when the women are trying to win over Diane Keaton's daughter to help them. This is a well-made feel good movie that anyone can enjoy whether male or female. Seven out of 10

I just wonder what they wrote as their purpose to get a business license!

[macpherr · 7/10 · 8 May 1999]

Elise Eliot Atchinson, Goldie Hawn (Everyone Says I Love You, Death Becomes Her) plays a famous aging movie-star who will do anything to stay young. Even her plastic surgeon, Rob Reiner, (When Harry Met Sally, Mixed Nuts) does not want to operate her any longer. Bette Midler (Beaches) is Brenda Morelli Cushman, a housewife who helped with her ex-husband's business. Diane Keaton, (Baby Boom, Godfather) Annie MacDuggan Paradis was doing therapy with her husband to solve her marriage problems. The three divorcees seek revenge on their husbands who left them for younger models. The death of a college friend brings then together and they start the First Wives Club whose goal is to destroy their ex-husbands.I just wonder what they wrote as their purpose to get a business license Revenge!!! The story is fun. Goldie as usual is as cute as it gets. I just wonder who I would pay attention to if she ever decide to make a movie with Meg Ryan (You've Got Mail). Two of the cutest Americas stars those days!

Favorite scene: Falling down the window cleaning platform.

Favorite Lines: "It's the nineties. Bill, downsize!"; "Fifty cents considering our history together, I thought one dollar would be terribly fair. Take it all!;" "Lifestyle that I think you should become accustomed to."; "Revenge didn't seem so important anymore."

Not what it was hyped to be...

[Maxi-14 · 7/10 · 28 August 1999]

This film was better the second time I watched it. It wasn't the movie that it was hyped to be but when you accept it for what it really is, a dark comedy, it is truely wonderful! Casting was superb all the way around with this film. Bette Midler was excellent as Brenda Morelli Cushman. I found myself forgetting that she really was Bette Midler. That is acting! Eleen Heckart turned a wonderful performance as Catherine MacDuggan. Rob Reiner had a memorable line about collagen as Dr. Morris Packman. Jennifer Dundas does a superb job as Diane Keaton's tough, rebellious(against Daddy) daughter Chris Parallis. Expect the unexpected and enjoy this for the intelligent dark comedy that it is.

Maybe I'm a man.

[digitair · 1/10 · 25 August 2003]

I am offended by the other reviewers' comments implying or stating as a fact that this is the film that _all_ women will love. As a woman, I can say it's a generous overstatement.

A film with much noise and screaming, cheesy dialogs, and shallow gossipy characters can't please everyone, and The First Wives Club certainly didn't please me.

I'm happy that not all women are like the characters in this film. Otherwise, I would have to consider a sex change operation.

I love this movie

[Lozface20 · 10/10 · 29 October 2021]

I can't quite put my finger on why I love this movie so much. It has everything, great story, brilliant performances, good songs, comedy etc.. it's just a great film and every so often I love to put it on and feel better.

Excellent cast, very funny but weak ending

[jangu · 7/10 · 8 January 2003]

This movie belongs to Goldie Hawn! She is excellent in her part as Elise Elliot and isn't afraid of sending her own persona up. Her apartment is decorated everywhere with pictures of herself in glamorous positions, she drinks and smokes a lot and is constantly having cosmetic surgery but will only admit to that she has been "freshened up". But Midler and Keaton are also very good. Midler manages to deliver wise-cracks in her usual manner, but is still actress enough to display true sorrow about her failed marriage through facial expressions alone. Keaton, who has the slightest material to work with of the three, is actually the sweetest of the lot, and you do feel for her and understand her anger when her husband dumps her just after he's been sleeping with her. The supporting cast couldn't be bettered either. Maggie Smith should have been on screen more I think, her reactions towards Sarah Jessica Parker during dinner are priceless! Honorable mentions also goes to Hedaya, Berkley (who's coffee conversation with Hawn is a hoot!) and the before mentioned Parker. But the film, which starts in full gear, looses some steam towards the end. There should have been a twist or two in the ending. And some scenes to seem to be tacked on as an excuse for including others, for instance the girls talk about singing. But otherwise very entertaining and it is a joy to watch three outstanding actresses doing their stuff and apparently enjoying themselves immensely!

The Militant Feminists "Birth Of A Nation"

[Danny-30 · 1/10 · 16 January 1999]

If you are not familiar with "Birth Of A Nation", it's a classic silent film in which the Ku Klux Klan is regarded as heroes saving the purity of man from the "evil" negroes. It was a clearly horrid lie that was taken as truth by the devilish film. Now comes along "The First Wives Club", and equally shocking and appauling film which essentially outlines all males and philandering scumbags and the womens job to destroy their lives. Now, the characters in this film get what the asked for, they are all exceptionally sleazy, but it works as a clear political/social statement that all men are evil. I was disgusted by this putrid film, it could have least be entertaining. Its hateful vengeance was weighted with idiotic jokes, a predictable storyline, and an utterly revolting and asinine closing musical sequence that made me suicidal. Avoid this filthy film at all costs, unless you want to feel really bad about human kind in general.

You don't own me!

[Calicodreamin · 8/10 · 24 November 2019]

Such a fun movie! Hawn, Midler, and Keaton shine as three jaded women who decide to get back at their ex husbands in the most boss way. The first wives club has laughs, drama, and heartfelt moments. The scene on the window washer is comedy gold. The storyline has a good pace and doesn't try to get too complicated.

The power of three!

[PredragReviews · 7/10 · 2 May 2016]

This was a chick flick in many respects, but not so sappy and irrational that it annoys you like other chick flicks do. All three leads are legitimately angry and the audience feels for them, because we've all been scorned (whether you're a man or a woman, but it will obviously speak to you more so if you are a woman).

A dynamite cast and a great script make a great comedy, and The First Wives Club is just that. Having Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton together for a picture should guarantee that the film is going to be something special, and it is, a witty, breezy comedy about women getting even with their philandering spouses. Although the film can be perceived as very anti-men, it manages to even out the put-downs with some sparkling humour, even though the men in this film are portrayed as not very bright creatures. I think most of you will like this, but... beware men... we don't look good!

Overall rating: 7 out of 10.

Coarse, low-grade man-bashing

[Enid-3 · 1/10 · 20 February 1999]

If you are one of those dodos who think that bigotry toward men is acceptable, especially when disguised as a joke, you will probably like this film. The rest of us will just wince.