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Reviews Counted:109
Fresh:20
Rotten:89
Average Rating:4.6/10
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
As 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.
Top CriticThe movie lays on gag situations that smack of fillers.
Chris Rock's direction of I Think I Love My Wife isn't especially noteworthy. His screenwriting (with comedian Louis C.K.) is all over the map.
Rock isn't quite clever enough as a director to keep the energy alive in a film that's one long bit of foreplay that might or might not pay off.
In the end, it is not the sexism and misogyny that truly ails I Think I Love My Wife—if the movie was actually funny, Rock probably would get away with all of that—it's just that it's so tired. The humor falls flat. The situation is hardly novel.
Rock 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.
Top CriticIts source is not Rock's own material -- it's actually taken from a French New Wave movie called Chloe in the Afternoon, whose director, Eric Rohmer, had a knack for character that eludes Rock.
While the movie gets at a couple of truths about marriage, it's just not that funny. The pacing sags and the story-driven gags (including, ugh, a condom-buying scene where the clerk loudly discusses the purchase) don't sizzle.
Rock is so fixed on crude jokes, he neglects to create realistic characters and a story that's compelling to follow.
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.
Top Critic...the edgy Rock doesn't bring any of his desired brand of caustic wit to his choppy and disposable romantic comedy...ends up dripping in mechanical life-crisis lameness.
For each joke that is fresh, there are at least three that fall thuddingly flat.
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.
Despite a few snappy one-liners, the film and its humor are episodic and unfocused.
I Think I Love My Wife is about as entertaining as reading someone else's divorce settlement.
Comes up a bit short on both laughs and psychology.
The anger that once made Rock's comedy so funny and provocative has become simply mean-spirited.
The movie could have used some energy overall and possibly an ending that makes sense.
I 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.
All 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.
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