Good idea lost in the noise

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

(Dr. T) Richard Gere is perfectly cute for Dr. T. I'm really not that jealous of Gere here being basically besieged by beautiful babes because I like him so much. He deserves it, he's awesome. It could have easily been worse, way worse, like, Billy Bob Thornton worse.(the Women) Where do I start? Let's just start with the most beautiful one, Helen Hunt. I love Helen Hunt. She is so hot and so perfect and so sweet, seriously. What a babe. A golf date followed by dinner and wine at her place, sign me up, please, please, sign me up. Helen shows Dr. T a passing look at her unbelievable body getting into the shower. Whoa, Helen. The shot looks good off the tee, it's in the air, and it looks like it's gonna be a hole-in-one...and it's in the hole! Farrah Fawcett, the classic beauty. Fawcett, just in her 50s, takes the name 'strip mall' a little too literally as she playfully strips down in the middle of a crowded shopping mall fountain. OMG, wow. Farrah is just to die for. I love her. At this point, I'm just now learning who Lee Grant is. I likey. Definitely now gonna check out her past movies. Janine Turner, 'You look absolutely fantastic actually. You do, you look just wonderful, just great. Does anyone tell you that lately?" Oh, they did, well does anyone tell you that you have a sweet butt lately? Oh, they did, my nurse, my bookkeeper and my receptionist, all in the last 10 minutes? 'Well then it must be true.' Mmh huh...it's true. Shelley Long is next and thanks to arriving at Shelley Long you will have to excuse me for a second while I lift and dump this giant 5-gallon bucket of ice water on my crotch for getting through all these women so far. Just kidding, but geeeeez. I almost forgot how sexy this movie is. Okay, back to work. Shelley Long is so ultra-cute. Long easily makes me laugh. I love hearing her Texas accent. Speaking of Texas accents, holy Laura Dern! Speaking of really funny, too. Dern is so sweet. So hot, too. So good actress too. You know, sometimes I think, and it would be really, really hard if I had to pick between one of these, insanely beautiful women..........NOOOOOOTTT! Kate Hudson is so easily the 1 that I choose. Hudson looks prettyyy darn cute at cheerleading practice. Kate Hudson is the best. I love Kate Hudson. Liv Tyler is really beautiful too. I would definitely choose her 2nd. God I love her. Lol! This movie doesn't quit. Liv is real. Steven Tyler's daughter and Goldie Hawn's daughter kissing is very cool. Tara Reid is last but she is definitely not least. Tara is way too cool and way too pretty and way too smart. I love her. Man, writing this review has taken its toll on me. Being a doctor must be really hard.

Okay, a of people didn't like it, it is not a crowd pleaser. But I did. First off, I like Robert Altman & his movies. Also, it was set in Texas and leads were all Texan except for one but it never degenerated into worn out Texan stereotype land, good or bad. But it did play on the hyper over bred Southern belle & all her neurotic twisted traits. Basically Dr Sullivan Travis, Sully or Dr. T,(Richard Gere) is a handsome successful, well mannered friendly gynecologist surrounded by beautiful women who desire and admire him. He is an idealist who has the most romantic loving, but paternalistic view of women. Even the opening scene was hilarious with his busy office full of patients and staff degenerated from friendly service to bickering chaos during the opening credits.Trouble, is Sully, is going to be shown up with his well meaning idealism. His wife Kate, (Farrah Fawcett) develops this childish regression, the "Hestia Complex" because she is an over pampered, over loved, over doted over Southern belle. Then his super vixen daughter, who is going to be married in some upper class lush ceremony. turns out to be gay and is really in love with the main bridesmaid, the one non Texan. Since Sully's wife is now committed, and she has rejected or forgotten her whole loving family, Sully tried to find consolation with the new golf pro Bree, but she is too modern to be one of pampered belles that Sully has been conditioned to love and care for. Okay the movie spirals from seeming normalcy to a crazy ending with a botched wedding thrown in. It is a good movie and kept my interest through it all.If there is any message to it, it is don't be a vapid Southern belle and get a life.

What surprised me was not necessarily the directing---the cuts to the one female's rear-end seems to me not to speak necessarily about the director, but that particular character's "character", but who knows, it's possible.What got me was that this was written by a woman. I have no problem with her portrayal of these high-society women. I am not one myself and so I cannot vouch for or against them. What I can say is that I fully expected this to have been written by a man. I mean come on- a man loves a woman so much that she reverts back to a child-like state- seemingly permanently? Get over yourself.-- A woman that seemingly has "everything" so she would rather live in an alternate reality as a child--- I understand that a housewife may have feelings she isn't contributing to society after her children are grown, but unless you actually have a history with mental health (and therefore this transformation is caused by other reasons) I don't buy that she would go to this extent to escape this "horrible reality of having it all". I believe she might leave... go through a bit of a mid-life crisis, have some issues... lots of possibilities, but the reason she is in the state she is in, is not because her husband "loved her too much". And the notion that this could be possible is absurd and extremely stupid. (Hey it's not a word used much by intellectuals, but here it applies.) Again, really? A woman wrote this? The first part establishes the main male as a wonderful, sensitive, caring man and then while his wife is away in an institution he has an affair. Yes, how supportive, nurturing and sensitive this course of action is.And the ending- his life has fallen apart so he drives into a tornado, seemingly wakes up in a Mexican desert and is unscathed, meanwhile, his car (that had no hood for protection) is torn apart. Yes, I am quite certain this tornado took him from Dallas, which unless I'm mistaken is towards the center of Texas to Mexico, again unscathed and in fact he has survived in such good shape that he is able to run to the houses in the desert directly after he awakens from the accident.And the ending- he delivers a a baby boy and laughs out loud. This is no resolution to any of the problems he has gone through- especially considering in this Hispanic home he is again, surrounded by women, only this time, they don't even speak his language. This might have been a resolution to the story if the experiences with the women in his life previously in the move have made him decide to play for the other team. However,this would seem a weird way to suggest this, not to mention,this is extremely unlikely since typically this would not be choice, but nature.The music- I half/muted any scene with the (loud, annoying) music.Perhaps if I had given it a better chance, I might have enjoyed it, however considering I felt the need to lower the volume by half, I'm guessing not.Lastly, I realize we women are all different. We have our sometimes eccentric, sometimes crazy emotional ways. Which, by the way, sometimes make up part of our charm, (I myself, for instance, believe I am a nerd, and a weird one at that) but the only female character that made an impression that did not have some serious issues (of course everyone I know has some serious issue(s), but in Films/TV/Books we need someone to look to as a good example, someone that even with her issues, seems to have it together or is on her way there)is the character played by Helen Hunt and this is cancelled out by the fact that she is not only having two affairs at one time, but one of these is to a married man with an ill wife. And trust me there are a lot of women in this film, it seems someone should have had some moral ground of some kind; perhaps Maria, the maid, but we will never know because her part was so small, however she seems the most likely.I realize, that sometimes we have to make room for no role models in comedies, because these are purely written/made for this purpose, but event though Netflix listed this as a comedy, I think for all of the conflict, it should at the very least be a dramedy, but more appropriately a drama with some comic instances.I would not recommend this movie. I think it is a waste of time. However, a few male "Madmen" types might find it a good excuse to treat their wives like crap in order to keep their lives from being "ruined" by the women they "love."

Dr. T and the Women was boring, trite, shallow and full of cliché. To me Altman is, like Martin Scorcese, a highly over rated director. I did not see any depth to the movie at all and it was so predictable. The acting sucked, especially from Laura Dern, who is never good. The situations were ridiculous. For example, like my wife said, no woman goes to see her gynecologist that often. Just because Dee and Marilyn became liberated lesbians and because Bree dumped Dr T in the end does not make the original or deep in anyway. And trying to fill the story with mostly women added no depth either. In fact there was not a single relationship (male/female, male/male, female/female) that had any depth to it. You need to shelve this movie Mr. Altman and really try to make a movie that has some depth. I will take a Kurosawa, Chaplin, Eastwood, or even Spielberg movie over any of yours.