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Critics Consensus: In exchanging the chilling satire of the original into mindless camp, this remake has itself become Stepford-ized.
Critic Consensus: In exchanging the chilling satire of the original into mindless camp, this remake has itself become Stepford-ized.
All Critics (171) | Top Critics (38) | Fresh (44) | Rotten (127) | DVD (7)
To paraphrase Paul Rudnick's Premiere magazine movie-critic alter ego, Libby Gelman-Waxner: It's flat, cold, fork-resistant and tasteless, if you ask me.
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.
It has two speeds -- obvious and more so.
Very good dialogue, the rest of this stuff just falls apart.
Satirizing The Stepford Wives is pointless.
None of it appears to be well thought out, or thought through, and it's consequently never remotely believable.
Sometimes, improvements aren't always necessary whether that be for romantic partners or for a film.
That razor edge is completely gone from the remake of The Stepford Wives. It's a comedy and no one gets really hurt.
It glides by on the notion that there is little that is still frightening about being an American woman. I wish I could say it was a premise whose time had come.
Comedic remake of '70s horror movie has sex humor.
There's not a single redeeming feature in this colossal over-budgeted waste of time...
As comedies go, it's actually fairly funny, albeit in a light, superficial way which either hides or exposes the fact that the plot is a thick tangle of mutual contradictions.
Weird film. Creepy how they controlled them like that and it was a great fictional story.
Super Reviewer
The 1975 version is much better, but this version really surprised me. I had low expectations, but overall I enjoyed it. It's silly and cheesy in some parts, but it still has enough of the creepy elements to keep the audience interested. I prefer the dark mood of the old version more, but I thought the satire in this film was good. A different interpretation of the story is all. A good adaptation, overall. Very funny, i recommend it.
Aside from a decent cast, this is a train wreck of a film. It is completely unmemorable and has little meaning aside from cheap laughs. It attempts to be a comedy, a horrible decision on the film maker's part. It could've been a decent remake, but it just became a failure. They just had no respect for the source material or the horror aspect. The feminism is too obvious and overdone. There is no real threat, it all seems to work out fine in the end. The husbands seem more like victims themselves rather than pathetic losers trying to make servant wives.
Good re-make of original. Original was a lot darker. Doesn't everyone want the perfect wife? A couple retreat to suburbia to restore their marriage and concentrate on family life. Very quickly they notice the newcomers being brainwashed into stereotypes - the perfect wife, the men's club, etc. Good cast. Bette Midler is hilarious.
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