For crying out loud, are they robots or not? If the wives are robots, then how come they go back to normal as soon as Walter remotely zaps the chips in their brains (and why build that option in anyway?). If they're humans with chips in their brains then what's with the sparking ears, growing breasts and the ATM machine (who refills that cashbox anyway?). Just because they've made it into a (supposed) comedy doesn't mean they can abandon all sense of internal logic.
As for that, it tries really hard to be a comedy but, except for 5 or 6 snappy one-liners, ends up as a vaguely embarrassing piece of slapstick. Unlike the classic original, there's no tension since 99% of the audience already know the Stepford secret, and it can't even claim to be satirising anything. The 70's version was a comment on people's reactions to the burgeoning feminist movement, but what is there to satirise here - reality TV? Lame.
Over the top performances (except for Broderick who sleepwalks through his underwritten role) and too many plot holes make this just another of the countless pointless remakes which unwisely choose not to take the original seriously.
Please, please Hollywood: By all means keep on making remakes, but why not remake some s****y movies and turn them into something good, rather than the other way round.
As for that, it tries really hard to be a comedy but, except for 5 or 6 snappy one-liners, ends up as a vaguely embarrassing piece of slapstick. Unlike the classic original, there's no tension since 99% of the audience already know the Stepford secret, and it can't even claim to be satirising anything. The 70's version was a comment on people's reactions to the burgeoning feminist movement, but what is there to satirise here - reality TV? Lame.
Over the top performances (except for Broderick who sleepwalks through his underwritten role) and too many plot holes make this just another of the countless pointless remakes which unwisely choose not to take the original seriously.
Please, please Hollywood: By all means keep on making remakes, but why not remake some s****y movies and turn them into something good, rather than the other way round.
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