Dr. T & The Women
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Movie Reviews of Dr. T & The Women
Movie Review: Major disappointment
Summary: 2 Stars
Except for Helen Hunt and Fawcett's "stroll" I rate this as one of the worst films by a respected auture that I've ever seen. I love Altman, whether kansas city or cookie's fortune, short cuts or The Player...and of course gosford park is one of the best films ever made...but this tripe was such a waste of time. check out the self-satisfied smiles in the first hustle-bustle scene. Really a work of someone resting on their laurals.Movie Review: This is two hours of my life I can't get back.
Summary: 2 Stars
Although there were a few humorous parts in this movie, there was no plot. I kept trying to find it, but it wasn't there. The movie was so far fetched that I would like to slap the writers. It's a waste of time and money. They leave a lot of lose ends untied and just when you think the movies going somewhere, it doesn't. I'm ashamed of you Richard Gere.Movie Review: A-List in an F- Movie -- Inexplicably and Incoherently Awful
Summary: 1 Stars
My wife and I picked this movie off the rental store shelf purely off it's star-power. We figured, "How can eight marquee-level stars all be wrong?" After watching the film, we had to ask, "How did eight marquee-level stars get duped into appearing in this dreck?"I'm flabbergasted to find Dr. T was written by a woman. Why? Think of any negative female stereotype, and this film screams it into an amplified bullhorn. Without exception, ALL the female characters are completely neurotic, ludicrously overdressed, blindly self-absorbed, and chatter incessantly about nothing of substance whatsoever, often several characters at a time crescendoing into a mind-grating cacophony. (Is this supposed to be avant garde? 'Cause in fact, it's just plain annoying.) Even Helen Hunt, who at first appears to be the female gender's saving grace and Dr. T's calm in the midst of this maelstrom, (Look out! Don't let me "ruin" it for you... if that's possible) turns out to be a man-eater. Dr. T lovingly states he trusts all women because they're "natural saints", but not a single woman in this movie has earned that badge.
Enter Dr. T: The Rock of Gibraltar, the only character with more substance than a french fry. Nothing phases him; not when his wife gets naked in a crowded shopping center and thus is committed to an insane asylum (because, as her psychoanalyst so sincerely puts it, Dr. T. just loved her too much -- puh-LEEZE!), not when his daughter runs into the arms of her lesbian lover rather than her fiancee - at her wedding no less (who didn't see THAT coming?), not when hordes of sex-starved and under-appreciated women clamor into his office almost daily, and no, not even a Texas tornado. That's right. Dr. T. survives being sucked out of his convertable by a tornado that would've made Dorothy and Toto proud and is deposited somewhere in Latin America -- without a scratch! He literally gets up, dusts himself off, and follows some Spanish speaking children to a remote Latin village just in time to deliver a baby (and yeah, they show EVERYTHING). Dr. T is Superman!
The suspension of disbelief required for this self-indulgent waste of celluloid is going to break the bell curve. The characters are all cracked, and the story so schizophrenic, I felt like *I* should be committed! Please, instead of cursing your own poor video-box-reading judgement like I have been, do something comparatively constructive. Like watching infomercials.
Movie Review: One of the worst movies ever made.
Summary: 1 Stars
Let me preface this by saying there's a fine line between a bad movie and a horrible movie. Bad movies are often funny to watch, cheaply made shtick. Then there' horrible movies that are meant to be very serious and have potential and then are really awful.
This movie, is the latter of the two.
Looking at the cast one says "Whoa, this movie must rock!". Sadly it doesn't even summon up a pebble, let alone a whole rock.
The actors barely get a chance to act. The plot is thin and boring. This isn't even a thinking mans movie, or a chick flick, or a sexy flick. It's so bad the only thing I could classify it as is "other: morbidly boring and inane".
Not to give away the nonexistent story but Gere plays a middle aged OB/GYN whose family is highly dysfunctional and getting worse by the day. His teenage daughters are driving him crazy and his wife (who already is crazy) is no consolation. He turns to the new, sexy and attractive golf pro at his country club, played by Helen Hunt. The affair seems forced and rather uninteresting. Honestly the high point of the film is you see Hunt take off her blouse from a distance, but even this rather sexy scene ends without offering a saving grace to this film.
The movie ends in a sort of quasi "Kubrik" dreamesque sequence where Gere drives into a hurricane and gets swept off to OZ, no wait that would have been more entertaining. He lands in Mexico (though why it looks like Mexico of the early 1700's I'll never know) and there delivers a baby boy. The movie ends with that highly ridiculous and pointless highlight as if the director was trying to say, "Ah heck, I give up".
Very disappointing throughout and overall a waste of time and film. I hope I saved you 2 hours of time by writing this review, I'd hate for anyone to have to sit through this like I did.
Movie Review: Only ONE performance worth watching...
Summary: 1 Stars
The reason I gave one star to this movie is for the ONE and only star who gave a worthwhile performance, and that was Tara Reid, who played Dr. T's youngest daughter, Connie. Her's was the only "normal" character in the film, but sadly her scenes were too few and far between. This is a BOOORRRING film with far too many sub plots that never seem to get tied up. The cast is all star quality, with Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Kate Hudson, Laura Dern, Shelley Long and the aforementioned, Tara Reid, but aside from Reid's performance it was a total waste of film. The best performance is wasted in a purely or unfairly purposely designated background, almost filler capacity, which leaves the rest of the cast to fill in the majority of the film with an utter waste of the viewers time. There are a lot of other reviews that go into detail about the "plot"? of the movie, so I won't repeat it again, except to clarify that Kate Hudson plays Richard Gere's daughter, Dee Dee, who is the lesbian Dallas Cowboys Cheerleader hopeful, who is about to get married, but is in love with her Maid of Honour, Marilyn, who is played by Liv Tyler, and Tara Reid plays his other daughter, Connie, who is a JFK Conspiracy theorist, which is a story line that should have been given far more attention, as it would have been far more interesting than anything else in this absurd movie. Watch it at your own risk, but don't say I didn't warn you.