Bette Davis walking off the boat in Now Voyager, the orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally, Patrick Swayze uttering 'No one puts Baby in a corner' from Dirty Dancing... all are seminal chick flick moments and, as such, are often passed over or scorned in typical (male) film guides.
Chick Flicks sets out to redress the balance: there is no technical appreciation of Hitchcock's lighting, or lengthy rhapsody about the opening sex scene in Betty Blue in here. Rather, JO BERRY and ANGIE ERRIGO set out to provide a witty, sassy and irreverent guide to the movies women love.
While it is always important to adopt a critical stance in film reviewing – and more than 600 films are praised, evaluated or dissed in Chick Flicks – sometimes what a woman wants has nothing to do with artistic merit. Now and then we want a movie where the girl gets the guy, the girl doesn't get the guy (and dies), or the girl gets a wardrobe to die for...