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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: A sporadically amusing, occasionally funny, but ultimately bland and pointless time killer. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Trying to be more antic and cuttingly funny, it misses the premise's shivery tension. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Very good dialogue, the rest of this stuff just falls apart. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: It displays all the intellectual heft of a beer commercial -- light beer at that. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Rudnick specializes in hurling poison darts. Here he throws armloads of them, and a surprising number hit the board. Read more
Manohla Dargis, Los Angeles Times: The idea behind The Stepford Wives is still a chiller, but this remake has some gaping plot holes. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Often feels off, forced even. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: In the new town of Stepford, there's no bitterness, no struggle, no competition, none of the scars of the sexual revolution. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: It is essentially a Stepford movie: A pretty clone with its brains removed, lurching about robotically and reciting predictable inanities. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Even its slyest and most insinuating moments are played broadly. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: 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 ... is a gas. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: All the efforts of director Frank Oz and writer Paul Rudnick to make the story funny feel slightly desperate and very strained. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's the supporting actors who are the most fun. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Rudnick has written some of the year's sharpest comic dialogue for this threesome: Kidman, Bette Midler ... and Roger Bart. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: To paraphrase Paul Rudnick's Premiere magazine movie-critic alter ego, Libby Gelman-Waxner: It's flat, cold, fork-resistant and tasteless, if you ask me. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Frank Oz's madcap remake turns a dusty, second-rate thriller from 1975 into a loud and shiny postmodern farce. Read more
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel: A comedy that's just too erratic and goofy to qualify as satire. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: If the film is to work on any level, even a comedic one, it's necessary for the viewers to sympathize with Joanna and Walter. However, the script and scattershot performances keep them at arm's length. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Rudnick and director Frank Oz don't do anything radical with the original premise ... but they choose comedy over horror, and it's a wise decision. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Oz has made an interesting -- and entertaining -- choice. Instead of updating the story to make it more credible, he has gone the other way: milking its passe alarmism for laughs. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Henceforth, I fear Stepford may acquire new metaphorical implications. It will mean interesting old movies remade into lobotomized new ones. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: It has a wonderfully wounding malice directed at both the Stepford, Conn., contingent of Energizer Bunny wives and the New Yorkers who have just moved in. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: You feel some of the strain in this immaculately shot, designed and costumed farce, but it's fast and the cast is lively. Read more
Brian Lowry, Variety: Audiences that find themselves laughing at first will likely be fidgeting as the pic drifts toward a peculiar if oddly predictable climax, requiring -- much like the Stepford women -- that brains be checked at the door. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: It has two speeds -- obvious and more so. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: An empty comedy that takes hackneyed potshots at consumerism. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: None of it appears to be well thought out, or thought through, and it's consequently never remotely believable. Read more