Simply A Masterpiece

Don't listen to the negative reviews

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Forget about all lack of accuracy how create a person from nowhere,it's too dummy,comedies are to be enjoy instead convince if is true or not,too easy and amuzing it's driven to breaks the walls of the men's offices,make a conterpoint to self called unfair men practices,the target is that....all remains is just for fun!!!ResumeFirst watch: 1999 / How many: 3 / Source: Cable TV-DVD / Rating: 7

Whoopi Goldberg feels held back by her gender, so she gets a makeover as a man to jump start her ad agency. A lot of women defend this movie, but it seems like they should be insulted. Goldberg is reduced to getting fashion tips from a drag queen(man), getting inside tips from a mouse(man), and looking like a demented John Adams when she is remade as a white man. The movie would be really empowering if she did it herself, which everyone knows she could. Whoopi is far too talented and independent to be playing such a poorly conceived character. Also, the original story was about how liberating it was to do the things you wanted in a visage that everyone believed, but that ultimately you could be yourself by yourself. All the women power stuff was added unnecessarily, just casting a woman would have gotten the same point across without rubbing the audiences noise in it.

1st watched 5/9/2007 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Donald Petrie): OK comedy drama with Whoopi Goldberg playing a character reminiscent of the Robin Williams man to woman transformation character, Mrs. Doubtfire, but opposite, of course. Whoopi's character is a wall street investment associate in a firm where the men usually rule the roost. She is up for a promotion to Vice President, but loses it to her partner, primarily because he's a man who knows how to play to the higher-ups wim's. She quits and starts her own investment firm and invents an elderly white male partner named Robert S. Cutter and starts becoming very successful despite the fact that the companies never meet the illustrious Mr. Cutter, but instead Whoopi does all the work, and he's always traveling around the world and never available. Eventually, Cutter has to show himself and what we get is Whoopi in a pretty amazing transformation done by her cross-dressing friend. The transformation is so well done that it's hard to tell that it's Whoopi behind the wig, mask and the rounded-out body. The transformation isn't the problem in this movie, it's just that it has very few opportunities for Whoopi's comedic talents to come thru. Dianne Weist is actually very good in a supporting role as Whoopi's mega-talented secretary and Whoopi isn't bad in her performance with what she's given but the screenplay is very flat and un-inspired. This could have been a good expose on women in this field and how they're unable to penetrate the upper ranks but it doesn't come across that it has any desire to be much of anything which is very disappointing. I'd love to see Goldberg & Weist together again in a better film -- so maybe this will happen someday.

I just watched this film on TV, and I wasn't that impressed. "Interlink will make internet look obsolete" and out of date lines like that didn't help either. But the main problem of the film is that its TO ridiculous to be believable. Being a comedy its supposed to be a bit ridiculous, but having every single character except Whoopi's be total idiots is to much. And the applaud sequence at the end, ugh, thats to lame to even comment upon =/ .The topic of the movie (women having a hard time in the business world) is perhaps a good one, but the way its done is way to bad.I give it 3-4 out of 10.