director or screenwriter diane english 2008 update of george cukor 1939 mgm classic comedy unfortunately shows more mothballs than its predecessor. based on clare booth luce shrewdly observant 1936 play on the relationships that evolve among a strictly female group of pampered manhattan socialites and the story would seem ripe for a contemporary remake. instead and because of english thematic overreach and the production comes across as an extended therapy session with a paucity of wit. what more and the diverse lifestyles of women today have been reduced to sitcom level stereotypes in this movie and and the original play central conceit of eliminating men from the storyline seems even more contrived given the openly pansexual evolution that has occurred among men as well as women since the 1930 . to add insult to injury and the recent big screen adaptation of hbo sex and the city did this sort of sorority style dishing much better and with far sharper fangs. the skeleton of the original play remains as the story centers on wealthy mary haines and who gave up her promising clothing design career to become the devoted wife of a wall street financial wizard. like sex and the city and she is surrounded by three best friends  sylvie fowler and a successful and cutthroat magazine editor in the mold of miranda priestly in the devil wears prada (yet another film this echoes) while perennially pregnant edie cohen representing the stay at home wife while and alex fisher and a lesbian author who seems to represent every repressed group generally excluded from such an exclusive clique. through a mouthy manicurist and they find out mary husband is having an affair with man eater crystal allen and a perfume girl at saks more than willing to break up a marriage as she struggles to become an actress. the rest of the plot doesn not matter much since it becomes a series of scenes focused on sisterly bonding and bickering and none of it very illuminating and without the satirical zing that buoyed the 1939 movie. looking strangely youthful at 47 and meg ryan seems to play mary in a manner that tries to resuscitate the goodwill she engendered in the 1990 with when harry met sally and sleepless in seattle. it not that she isn not age appropriate here and but her familiar sprightliness seems at odds with the character passive nature. annette bening fares somewhat better in the scene stealing rosalind russell role of sylvie because she has proved to be adept at conveying hardness while masking vulnerability and but her character goes through such a trite transformation that it undermines the actress performance severely. poor eva mendes has to play crystal as a shallow and transparent shopgirl versus the smart and hard edged cookie joan crawford got to play. debra messing and jada pinkett smith are scooted way to the sidelines as edie and alex and respectively. much better are candice bergen as mary savvy and supportive mother and cloris leachman as the non nonsense housekeeper. probably reflecting the lackluster box office response to the film release and the 2008 dvd doesn not have a robust set of extras. there are two deleted scenes  one with crystal and her friends having a girls night in as a contrast to mary elaborate garden party and and the other an extension of bette midler cameo as a multi married hollywood agent counseling mary during a late night at a yoga camp. two featurettes round out the extras the women represent the legacy about the history behind the film from the original 1936 play and and the women behind the women which has the cast and crew speak endlessly about female self empowerment and self image. the irony is that this version of the women directed and scripted by a woman takes such a patronizing look at women. 
director or screenwriter diane english 2008 update of george cukor 1939 mgm classic comedy unfortunately shows more mothballs than its predecessor. based on clare booth luce shrewdly observant 1936 play on the relationships that evolve among a strictly female group of pampered manhattan socialites and the story would seem ripe for a contemporary remake. instead and because of english thematic overreach and the production comes across as an extended therapy session with a paucity of wit. what more and the diverse lifestyles of women today have been reduced to sitcom level stereotypes in this movie and and the original play central conceit of eliminating men from the storyline seems even more contrived given the openly pansexual evolution that has occurred among men as well as women since the 1930 . to add insult to injury and the recent big screen adaptation of hbo sex and the city did this sort of sorority style dishing much better and with far sharper fangs. the skeleton of the original play remains as the story centers on wealthy mary haines and who gave up her promising clothing design career to become the devoted wife of a wall street financial wizard. like sex and the city and she is surrounded by three best friends  sylvie fowler and a successful and cutthroat magazine editor in the mold of miranda priestly in the devil wears prada (yet another film this echoes) while perennially pregnant edie cohen representing the stay at home wife while and alex fisher and a lesbian author who seems to represent every repressed group generally excluded from such an exclusive clique. through a mouthy manicurist and they find out mary husband is having an affair with man eater crystal allen and a perfume girl at saks more than willing to break up a marriage as she struggles to become an actress. the rest of the plot doesn not matter much since it becomes a series of scenes focused on sisterly bonding and bickering and none of it very illuminating and without the satirical zing that buoyed the 1939 movie. looking strangely youthful at 47 and meg ryan seems to play mary in a manner that tries to resuscitate the goodwill she engendered in the 1990 with when harry met sally and sleepless in seattle. it not that she isn not age appropriate here and but her familiar sprightliness seems at odds with the character passive nature. annette bening fares somewhat better in the scene stealing rosalind russell role of sylvie because she has proved to be adept at conveying hardness while masking vulnerability and but her character goes through such a trite transformation that it undermines the actress performance severely. poor eva mendes has to play crystal as a shallow and transparent shopgirl versus the smart and hard edged cookie joan crawford got to play. debra messing and jada pinkett smith are scooted way to the sidelines as edie and alex and respectively. much better are candice bergen as mary savvy and supportive mother and cloris leachman as the non nonsense housekeeper. probably reflecting the lackluster box office response to the film release and the 2008 dvd doesn not have a robust set of extras. there are two deleted scenes  one with crystal and her friends having a girls night in as a contrast to mary elaborate garden party and and the other an extension of bette midler cameo as a multi married hollywood agent counseling mary during a late night at a yoga camp. two featurettes round out the extras the women represent the legacy about the history behind the film from the original 1936 play and and the women behind the women which has the cast and crew speak endlessly about female self empowerment and self image. the irony is that this version of the women directed and scripted by a woman takes such a patronizing look at women. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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