Rock's version is funnier, blacker, hipper, and sexier, but Rohmer's shows a little more skin.
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03/26/07
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I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:10
Rotten:24
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Chris Rock's comedic instincts are muted and the female characters are unsatisfactorily drawn in this uneven sex farce/domestic drama mashup.
Theatrical Release:Mar 16, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $12,441,752
Synopsis: SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE alum Chris Rock writes, directs, and stars in I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE. Rock's film is a remake of the 1972 Eric Rohmer film, CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON, which explores a married... [More]
Starring: Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, Chris Rock, Edward Herrman
Director: Chris Rock
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Reviews for I Think I Love My Wife
Top CriticI Think I Love My Wife is first and foremost a sex comedy. But Rock is sharp enough to set it in a world where people of all races share the same dreams and desires -- if not the same real estate.
03/16/07
Top CriticVery little that's clever, romantic or witty in this formulaic romp.
03/16/07
Top CriticSaddled with the weight of an unfocused, cliché-ridden script, a tiresome voice-over narration that drones on and on, and acting by Rock that's as wooden as Pinocchio, I Think I Love My Wife staggers in predictable circles for 94 long minutes.
03/16/07
Top CriticAs uneven as I Think I Love My Wife often is, it still has an emotional resonance lacking in most films about relationships. By dealing with temptation in even a quasi-realistic way, it affirms that, like comedy, monogamy is hard.
03/16/07
Top CriticRock fails to develop the characters caught in their conjugal and singleton traps. As usual, his observational humor zings (and stings) -- but this is a movie, not stand-up.
03/16/07
Top CriticRock is so fixed on crude jokes, he neglects to create realistic characters and a story that's compelling to follow.
03/16/07
Top CriticChris Rock, who famously mocked Jude Law's movie career at the Oscars, ought to watch out for his own after his second dud in a row as an actor-director, the screamingly unfunny romantic comedy I Think I Love My Wife.
03/16/07
Top CriticFor each joke that is fresh, there are at least three that fall thuddingly flat.
03/16/07
Top CriticRock's defining comic characteristic is his no-nonsense honesty, tackling awkward issues head-on with bold, hostile, uproarious insights. Playing a milquetoast, he's tossed away his best weapon.
03/16/07
Top CriticI Think I Love My Wife slogs through drama and comedy as though both were a duty as onerous as a sexless marriage. Rarely do characters display anything approaching logic, unless their 180-degree turnarounds are part of a geometry proof.
03/16/07
Top CriticAll good stuff. Rock delivers some laugh-out-loud lines, Washington is sexy and dangerous, Torres makes her character something more than a frigid harpy, and the workplace scenes are well-played.
03/16/07
Top CriticThis film has no more insight, and less originality, than [Rock's] completely gag-driven comedy.
03/16/07
Top CriticThe off-color humor and R-rated language seems an attempt to reach out to his fan base, but in all, this attempt at "realistic" comedy never seems funny or emotionally insightful enough to matter.
03/16/07
Top CriticDirected and written by the talented comic, the movie suffers from the overblown notes of a punch-line-driven routine.
03/16/07
Top CriticThe movie never breaks the surface of its characters or their situation. And Mr. Rock's paint-by-numbers approach as director only compounds the movie's flat, formulaic feel.
03/16/07
Top CriticRock finally provides hope he will develop into a genuine force on the big screen. The script is sharp and quick, and Rock's direction is sure-handed and occasionally inspired. He gives us a workday New York that feels real.
03/16/07
Top Critic... if only the movie were as stinging as his stand-up.
03/16/07
Top CriticThere are some raucous set pieces and a lot of frank, jokey talk about sex, but I Think I Love My Wife is not after crude or easy hilarity, and Mr. Rock works hard to hold his aggressive, irrepressible comic personality in check.
03/16/07
Top CriticOne of the best things about I Think I Love My Wife is that the film takes the time to develop the three principals beyond the stereotypes that underlie the characters.
03/16/07
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