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Stepford Wives, The [2004]


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no no no!!
Review date: 2008-01-14 Rating: 2 out of 10

i know my dad really likes this film but i just cannot see the facsination with it. It's slow and boring to me. I've heard that the 70s version is much better and wish i'd watched that before watching this, it may have saved me 2 hours of my life.

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Step one: read the book. Step two: Chuck it in the bin!
Review date: 2007-12-07 Rating: 4 out of 10

If you have read the book, like I have, then you may well be completely dismayed at what you view here. I saw the film at the cinema with a friend, who loved it, but then, she hasn't read the book.

Even before you can begin to like this film you have to forget the book even exists as they are totlly different. Infact, the only thing that ties the two together is Bette Midlers chatacter, Bonnie.
The book is dark and menacing and the film is light and fluffy with cliche characters. It is an ok film. Nothing special, but entertaining thanks to its star cast. However I do remain completely dumbfounded as how the makers have so blatently taken the book and chucked it in the bin to make the film!

A film to divide
Review date: 2007-10-18 Rating: 8 out of 10

It's strange how this film divides people into a love or hate relationship with this movie. I have to say I'm one of the few in the middle veering more to the love side of things.

This may be due to the fact I have not seen the original or read the book. I took this film at its face value. It's look at today's society is actually quite darkly humorous and I think the premise itself is probably more important now than it was 30 years ago. Look at the celebrities today and then the wives in this film - hardly a difference!

Nicole Kidman is funny and interesting to watch especially when she's not glammed up and Bette Midler steals the show for me with her outbursts and general prancing around. Glenn Close also stands out for me with her tragic character.

I suppose a lot of people don't like films 2000-Hollywoodized where everything is just that bit lighter but for me its all about the hidden depth. Yes the film could have been darker and eerier and really gotten into facet of Stepford but it does just fine as it is - light humour, light satire and a good film to watch.

A very mediocre film
Review date: 2007-08-11 Rating: 4 out of 10

I only watched this film when it premiered on T.V. Having never read the book, or seen the 1975 film which contained more horror than this offering, I cannot compare between each of them, I can only speak as I find.

Many will be familiar with the premise behind this film; Stepford is a small community in suburban America where the men have all modified their wives into compliant robots, there to wait on them hand and foot.

So, is it any good? Well, it depends what you want and expect from this film. If you take it as a good, lighthearted comedy about the differences between the sexes, you shall probably not be disappointed. However, if you demand a little more than that from the films you decide to view, you may do well to pass this one by.
Any comedy moments are very cliched - although I think the producers were hoping for satire, the film just looks too 'fluffy' for you to feel that this is trying to make any kind of serious satirical point.
Also, because all of the wives in this remake are professional women in their chosen careers, it does make you wonder why they would have ended up with the total losers that their husbands are in the first place.

Having now seen this film, the only thing it has made me interested in is seeing the 1975 version instead, as I believe it will be the superior one by far.

The Stepford Bores
Review date: 2007-08-11 Rating: 2 out of 10

When I heard Nicole Kidman was to appear in a remake of the seminal socio-horror flick, The Stepford Wives, I thought: what a fabulous idea. She was wonderful in The Others, after all. Then came the reviews - universally bad. Still I was curious enough to watch it. I will never get that 90 minutes of my life back again. But it's worse for Nicole, she could have been off making a decent film elsewhere during the months she must have spent on this pap. What was she thinking?

A film that stinks. Yes, stinks. This retelling of the original takes liberties with the plot that are nothing short of idiotic. It all adds up to a senseless mess.

It's a good job it flopped. The next move would probably have involved Julianne Moore in a "hilarious" remake of Rosemary's Baby - where the baby turned out to be the baby Jesus.

If I could give it no stars, I would.


Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Nicole Kidman
Christopher Walken
Matthew Broderick
Bette Midler
Glenn Close

Creators:
Nicole Kidman (Primary Contributor)
Matthew Broderick (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Home Entertainment
EAN: 5050583015828
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL,
Release date: 2004-11-29
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 89 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2004-06-11
Language: English (Original Language)

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