It's nice to know there are still movies being written that give women roles of substance. And The Women must give a handful of actresses a chance to show their chops, right? After all: It's right there in the title that it's all about women. The question is: Is this really the venue women want? A movie about a lady (Debra Messing) who keeps trying to get pregnant until she has a boy? Or a seemingly together woman (Meg Ryan) being cheated on with "the spritzer girl"? Or... mistress spritzer girl (Eva Mendes) herself? And the women who are friends with these people? Honestly, is this all women amount to? Gossiping busybodies who have nothing better to do than take their friends away on a weekend to tell them their husbands are cheating? Or baby-making machines? Or makeover victims who are desperate to get pretty, because that's the best way to get back at the cheating bastard? Or "spritzer girls"? I was hoping we had evolved a little further than that. I know I should be applauding the fact that there's a movie written and directed by a woman starring a bunch of women (I don't recall seeing a single male in the trailer, in fact), but it would be nice to see a movie about women that wasn't about the myriad ways that their lives center around, are focused on, and dependent upon men. Because women like this do exist. You wouldn't know it judging from this movie, though, which should be called The Really Stupid Women Whose Lives Center Around Men.

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