...the satire is weak, and the execution is inept...
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06/21/04
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The Stepford Wives (2004)
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Reviews Counted:160
Fresh:42
Rotten:118
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: In exchanging the chilling satire of the original into mindless camp, this remake has itself become Stepford-ized.
Theatrical Release:Jun 11, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $59,341,993
Synopsis: Based on a book by Ira Levin which satirizes the roles of 1950s housewives, this is a remake of the 1975 film adaptation. Director Frank Oz presents a dramatic reworking of the horror classic,... [More]
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Glenn Close
Director: Frank Oz
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06/21/04
Slice the last 10 minutes of "The Stepford Wives," and I think you'd have a decent movie.
06/19/04
The ending of the new Stepford Wives is completely ineffective. It doesn’t clearly define what these women are and goes for a lazy screenwriter’s cure all.
06/19/04
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06/19/04
A computer-generated ending might have been an improvement on screenwriter Paul Rudnick's, which goes so haywire you can almost see the smoke.
06/18/04
Leave the comedy to the Witherspoons, Nicole. When we want a good dose of self-loathing depression, we’ll give you a call.
06/18/04
In a year jam-packed with remakes, we have yet another bad one.
06/18/04
Though an overtly gay Stepford Wives is certainly conceivable, Frank Oz's evidently rewritten and recut incarnation doesn't have the necessary teeth.
06/18/04
It has a wonderfully wounding malice directed at both the Stepford, Conn., contingent of Energizer Bunny wives and the New Yorkers who have just moved in.
06/17/04
Top CriticA bland, empty-headed farce that values narrative complacency over invention. No sharp edges here. Only blunt, plastic frosting-spreaders.
06/17/04
This could have been a nearly great film, but instead it's an enjoyable mess that sometimes stretches itself to boast a degree of social relevance and truly-biting satire.
06/16/04
The Internet Movie Database classifies The Stepford Wives as 'comedy/drama/thriller,' and I suppose that's part of the film's problem: It doesn't know what it is.
06/16/04
A ham-fisted attempt at social commentary that's further undone by last-minute tinkering on the part of its creators.
06/16/04
The original thriller was accidentally campy, while Oz's film is very much in on the joke.
06/16/04
Director Frank Oz’s starstudded quirk-machine is a distastefully simpleminded view of gender relations.
06/16/04
An erratically paced, spectacularly misguided picture that can’t decide whether it’s a comedy, a sci-fi thriller or a relationship drama.
06/16/04
A baffling, incoherent debacle so openly contemptuous of the audience that it doesn't even bother pretending to make any sense.
06/16/04
Don't try to figure the logic of the ending. Just sit back and enjoy a funny movie.
06/15/04
Whatever behind-the-scenes problems there were are not apparent on the screen, and enough things work to make the film worthwhile.
06/15/04
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