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75
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Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
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.
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63
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USA Today Mike Clark
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.
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50
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Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
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50
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Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Close gets laughs, as does Bette Midler as a Jewish rebel. But the sting is gone.
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50
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
Before it degenerates into a complete mess, it's an entertaining mess, and something about its willingness to please maintains the audience's goodwill throughout.
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40
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The New York Times Dana Stevens
It does manage to fire off a handful of decent jokes and a few sneaky insights before losing its nerve and collapsing into incoherence.
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40
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Los Angeles Times Manohla Dargis
It was somebody's nitwit idea to rip out the story's guts and brains for a sour sellout of a finale -- which finds the filmmakers behaving exactly like Stepford men and turning an original into a dummy.
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30
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Washington Post Desson Thomson
The result: an empty comedy that takes hackneyed potshots at consumerism.
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30
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Washington Post Stephen Hunter
None of it appears to be well thought out, or thought through, and it's consequently never remotely believable.
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10
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Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
A pitiful shambles of a remake, The Stepford Wives might have qualified as a rethinking of the 1975 original if there were any trace of coherent thought in the finished product.
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