100 Women (2002)

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Sam lives the worst day of his live. He gets dumped by his girlfriend and thrown away from art class but in the same day, he meets the only person who managed to make him smile, Hope. Wanting to stay in touch with her, he looks for her, but in that night, something strange had happened. She became sad, cheerless, almost unwilling to go on. From there, he starts the "detective job" of finding out what happened to her before it's too late (obviously for their relationship).It's a story very similar to the one from "100 Girls" but in my opinion not as deep or as complex. You care less about the main character or about his faith because you aren't really convinced that he's actually doing the right thing. The ending is also a bit disappointing but it gets sorted out fast. It wasn't as funny as the precedent title which somehow left me wanting more...Still, it's a good movie, let's say another approach regarding a similar plot!

Every other commenter has covered almost every aspect of this movie, so I'll focus on the part that cheesed me off the most. When the male lead finds out that the woman he was chasing and the woman that was helping him had been stringing him along for *MONTHS* to see if he was worthy.They humiliate him, get him arrested, label him as a pervert in his neighborhood and almost kill him with a flower pot among other injuries. When they are finally forced to revel their treachery and the one he has been pining for declares him worthy of her love, he says "Okie Dokie" and forgets about getting his penis crammed into a Chinese finger trap then pushed out front of an audience.Yeah, right. A real person would have given up on both of those women since they are obviously defective.

So strikingly similar in tone and message to 100 Girls, it leads one to believe that director Michael Davis is a one trick pony. I haven't seen eight days a week, but from the IMDB synopsis, I can see that the male leads in all three movies are romantically tenacious little buggers who have a retarded sexual pervert for a best friend.This movie is set in a world where women are perfect, saintly, beautiful and utterly disgusted by men, who are rapists, perverts, peeping toms, slobs, and ne'er-do-wells. Our protagonist, Sam, thus spends 98 minutes apologizing to 100 women for the entire encyclopedia of male foibles.If any woman in this movie has any faults, it's because some male figure in their past has exacted some sort of brutality or cruelty to make them act that way - you know, just like the guests on daytime talk shows. Formerly fat girls (now hot girls) were fat because boys taunted them into chocolate addiction. Emotionally reluctant girls are that way because they were betrayed and raped by boys they considered friends.No matter which title you use for this movie, 100 Women or Girl Fever, it's quite evident that the title is supposed to be the draw for horndog guys to take a look, only to have their own sexuality distorted and lampooned in the Hollywood equivalent of a fun-house mirror. I cannot conceive of any other purpose for such a movie.Although I can't see how it's possible to spoil this piece of girl-power clap trap, consider yourself warned of the potential spoiler in the next paragraph.I found it quite nauseating when Sam ends up getting the girl of his dreams (which, incidentally, he could not achieve without the assistance of the other 99 women). Sam is apparently powerless to tell her that he is actually in love with someone else - a secret which he is also unable to hide from his omniscient girlfriend. She then sets him free, as if he were a caged bird, to pursue his real true love, whom he has ostensibly betrayed by not being aware of his desires in a timely manner. Though given permission to pursue real love, in typical male fashion, he is unable to convince the new girl of his sincerity without the validation of the other 99 women.Penis jokes abound. Men are cast as vitriol fodder. It seems that in this movie, women can do no wrong, and men can do no right. When a guy plays tricks on one of the girls, she loses her job. Girl-crafted pranks, on the other hand, are physically painful in a testicular kind of way, yet have absolutely no unanticipated consequences. Girls would never be so irresponsible, now would they?If you are a woman, and want to feel good about yourself whilst dissing and mocking men in a contrived sort of way, I urge you to see this movie. If you are a man, and have ever had guilt feelings about looking at a girl's ass as she walked by, do not see this movie - you will no doubt be suicidal before they roll the credits.If I ever see Chad Donella walking down the street, I'm gonna kick him in the ass!

Girl Fever was on TMC 12/3/03 and even TMC thought it was 100 Girls. If there's ever been a poster child of plagiarism its Girl Fever (2002). The story line, characters and story progression follow the well performed, artistic and well thought out story line of 100 Girls. Despite the feeling of being misled by TMC and the writer/producers of Girl Fever (2002) I did enjoy the movie. The acting was good, jokes delivered well and characters interesting. However, through out the whole movie I could keep from comparing it to 100 Girls.I have this on my "To Buy" list if only to compare it to 100 Girls when I get that movie and probably watch it 100:1 (Girl Fever (2002)).Thats my review and I'm sticking to it.