Mixing Rock with ooh-la-la turns out to be as appetizing as chalk and cheese.
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03/16/07
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I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
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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
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Reviews for I Think I Love My Wife
Top CriticSpazzing bubbles of slapstick humor, melodrama, musical numbers and sterile jokes emphasize Rock's unpolished acting and directing abilities.
03/15/07
Rock keeps going and going and going until this movie absolutely falls apart. You know it and feel it as Rock and Torres break into song.
03/15/07
Wife is profane, awkward, and sprinkled with a strange racial subtext; basically the cinematic equivalent of Rock himself.
03/15/07
The film ultimately fails to make Nikki an enticing character. She is just a one-dimensional manipulator. This removes the drama, the danger, and the interest from the story.
03/15/07
Women don't come off terribly well in I Think I Love My Wife, writer-director Chris Rock's comedic 'update' of the 1972 Eric Rohmer drama, Chloe in the Afternoon. It's not so much misogynistic as it resembles a fossil from another era.
03/15/07
Suffering through Wife actually makes you miserable.
03/15/07
Rock's idea of 'edgy'? Jokes about boners, Viagra, and how nasty rap music scares white people.
03/15/07
It may be cruel to say it, but there's also no getting around the fact that Rock doesn't have the charisma to hold this thing together. He's great at stand-up, and not bad in supporting roles, but he simply doesn't have the stature of a leading man.
03/15/07
You can enjoy the cast in I Think I Love My Wife, but it's too bad they don't have more notes to play.
03/15/07
Top CriticIt's good to see Rock in a semiserious role for once, but this glossy comedy of temptation overcome lacks any raison d'être. Profanity and obviousness are no substitute for the wit and subtle insights of the original film.
03/15/07
The movie is hilarious. ...There's [Rock's character's] encounter with Viagra, which I can't describe but has to be one of the funniest scenes of the decade and should easily push the movie over the $100 million mark by Week 3.
03/15/07
Top CriticThere's an undercurrent of misogyny in Wife, which is odd, since it ultimately wants to be a celebration of marital happiness.
03/15/07
Rock's depiction of women as either pouting spoilsports, nagging, frigid soccer moms or man-eating vixens harkens back to the pre-feminist '60s.
03/15/07
Top CriticI Think I Love My Wife is a surprisingly grown-up film. With only a minimum of gross-out humor - which may disappoint his fans - it gives us an adult take on relationships and a take the younger film audience may not be willing to hear.
03/15/07
Top CriticThis might be the worst date movie of all time.
03/15/07
The film might be a wake-up call for couples not ready for the future, but it does a better job of enjoying temptation than saluting the strength to resist closing the deal.
03/15/07
There are just enough great lines to keep this uneven comedy from devolving into a complete mess, but it never coalesces into anything of substance or real quality.
03/15/07
[Rock's] crowd-pleasing gags tend to clash with Rohmer's sly moral comedy.
03/15/07
We love you, Chris Rock. And we dearly want to love your movies.
03/15/07
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