Yes that's me hacking up a hairball - a BIG, TEASED, BACKCOMBED HAIRBALL after watching this awful dreck. Thank you Netflix; if I had paid $9 to see this....wait...I feel another hairball coming on...
Sorry about that. Anyhow, I was really excited about this film after seeing the preview. I loved the original, it scared me as a kid. I thought this would be a fun, comic update on the original film and how could you beat that cast? (Over the head, with a lame, illogical, apparently 30 page script.)
This film is sooo bad. The cast is uniformly awful(Glenn Close does score some points as a maniacal June Cleaver type and Roger Bart is cute, but enough with the queen thing!) Even Bette Midler & Christopher Walken are boring. If Nicole Kidman had tilted her head and arched that eyebrow one more time, I would've screamed. (She is pretty creepy in the transformation reveal scene, but she sort of always creeps me out anyhow. Not that I don't like that.) To top off the nausea factor, there's the oh-so-unsubtle relating of Republican patriotism & "family values" to Stepfordish robotism. How original for liberal Hollywood!! Aren't they being clever!! (Hey, I'm a Libertarian, no skin off my nose, just off my finger as I tried to fast forward through that awful campaign scene.) I'm not even going to touch the whole "are they robots or is it a brain chip?" debacle that has been hashed to pieces here already. It was just a convenient "out" for a lazy writer who wanted a new & 'cute' ending. So all the hotshot husbands are at the grocery...har, har, har...gag.
Sorry about that. Anyhow, I was really excited about this film after seeing the preview. I loved the original, it scared me as a kid. I thought this would be a fun, comic update on the original film and how could you beat that cast? (Over the head, with a lame, illogical, apparently 30 page script.)
This film is sooo bad. The cast is uniformly awful(Glenn Close does score some points as a maniacal June Cleaver type and Roger Bart is cute, but enough with the queen thing!) Even Bette Midler & Christopher Walken are boring. If Nicole Kidman had tilted her head and arched that eyebrow one more time, I would've screamed. (She is pretty creepy in the transformation reveal scene, but she sort of always creeps me out anyhow. Not that I don't like that.) To top off the nausea factor, there's the oh-so-unsubtle relating of Republican patriotism & "family values" to Stepfordish robotism. How original for liberal Hollywood!! Aren't they being clever!! (Hey, I'm a Libertarian, no skin off my nose, just off my finger as I tried to fast forward through that awful campaign scene.) I'm not even going to touch the whole "are they robots or is it a brain chip?" debacle that has been hashed to pieces here already. It was just a convenient "out" for a lazy writer who wanted a new & 'cute' ending. So all the hotshot husbands are at the grocery...har, har, har...gag.