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rezpatriot

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I would read the critic reviews on this one. It takes instances of popular culture way before my time. Its not out dated sure the context is ideal in internet pornography. I'm not sure what Martha Stewart would think of this film, its quite a...
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I would read the critic reviews on this one. It takes instances of popular culture way before my time. Its not out dated sure the context is ideal in internet pornography. I'm not sure what Martha Stewart would think of this film, its quite a negative love story, but isn't all of Nicole Kidmans films.

Enjoyable Entertaining but Adulturous.

Nice scenes, perhaps the director was on cocaine.

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Posted jan 11, 2008 4:08 am pt

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This movie was so wierd and unreal that I instantly fall in love with it. Just the best way to spend an afternoon, if you ask me. I could never see myself as perfect S-wife. Do you think I can find a Stepford husband somewhere, though?

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Posted feb 15, 2007 11:19 pm pt

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Not a bad comedy, but surely it is kind of strange. Sometimes the plot was hard to follow and some of the scenes in the movie seem very unrealistic, the ending was particulary very strange. I just did not like it, it was kind of a weird movie, but...
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Not a bad comedy, but surely it is kind of strange. Sometimes the plot was hard to follow and some of the scenes in the movie seem very unrealistic, the ending was particulary very strange. I just did not like it, it was kind of a weird movie, but still it had its moments.

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Posted feb 7, 2007 12:36 pm pt

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This movie got really horrible reviews and didn't do very well, but I found it really enjoyable. The movie was extremely funny, and the actors did very well. Bette Midler's character was great. This movie deserves a lot more recognition than it...
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This movie got really horrible reviews and didn't do very well, but I found it really enjoyable. The movie was extremely funny, and the actors did very well. Bette Midler's character was great. This movie deserves a lot more recognition than it got. Nicole was great in this role. The movie is enjoyable. You can't always listen to the critics. "The Stepford Wives" is a good movie, and I suggest you check it out.

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Posted feb 2, 2007 4:15 am pt

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Some critics have destroyed this movie...my family and I loved it

We hadn't seen the original, so the ending was totally unespected. The acting was also nice, and Nicole's face made it even better.

Watch it if you...
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Some critics have destroyed this movie...my family and I loved it

We hadn't seen the original, so the ending was totally unespected. The acting was also nice, and Nicole's face made it even better.

Watch it if you haven't yet!

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Posted jan 1, 2007 10:47 am pt

• [+] LA Weekly
  
  80
  Contrary to recent rumors that it was a dud, the new Stepford Wives, with its chocolate-box visual style, archly heavy-handed foreshadowing and its scene-for-scene parody of the original's fright strategies (Walken's waxy menace is once again played for laughs), is a gas.

  by Ella Taylor | Read Full Review »
• [+] Newsweek
  
  80
  Glenn Close, Bette Midler and Roger Bart (who plays one half of a gay couple slated for Stepfordizing) are hilarious, and even Nicole Kidman flashes comedic gifts not seen since "To Die For."

  by Cathleen McGuigan | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  75
  It's hilarious -- and on purpose, too. This is the first satisfying adult summer comedy set in New England to come out of Hollywood since "The Witches of Eastwick" in 1987.

  by Wesley Morris | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  75
  The star of this overachieving trifle is not Kidman, it's Paul Rudnick. The New York playwright and screenwriter ("In & Out") has taken a pair of dated watermarks from the '70s - Ira Levin's horror novel and its faithful 1975 movie adaptation - and turned them into a broad, feverishly fey parody.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  The 1975 movie tilted toward horror instead of comedy. Now here's a version that tilts the other way, and I like it a little better.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  70
  A film full of smart laughs.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  70
  I had a fabulous time. Well, I did once I accepted that it was a campfest--a great Provincetown drag show of The Stepford Wives.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  63
  Trying to be more antic and cuttingly funny, it misses the premise's shivery tension. The story loses us at precisely the moment it should put us in the vise.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  You feel some of the strain in this immaculately shot, designed and costumed farce, but it's fast and the cast is lively, even though a lost-looking Broderick rarely gets to shoot his patented bewildered look.

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  60
  Because the entire audience knows what's going on, the filmmakers hope to distract viewers from storytelling weaknesses with an urgent sense of style.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  Another "remake" that merits the title in name only, The Stepford Wives isn't the "troubled" disaster that media reports have suggested it might be, yet nor do its oddly matched parts ever congeal into a fully formed creation.

  by Brian Lowry | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Magazine
  
  60
  If the filmmakers had made a point of satirizing the new makeover culture in ways that went beyond camp jibes at décor and suburbia, they might have come up with a classic.

  by Peter Rainer | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
  60
  It’s funny, wonderfully performed by all, visually inventive.

  by Kim Newman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  58
  The film's creepier moments are pathetically weak, and its thematic update fails to attain the minimal credibility that even a wild farce needs to sustain itself.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  50
  At no time do the men -- that is, the straight ones -- believably hold the upper hand. In the new town of Stepford, there's no bitterness, no struggle, no competition, none of the scars of the sexual revolution. There's just gay apparel.

  by Lisa Schwarzbaum | Read Full Review »