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The movie The Stepford Wives, directed by Frank Oz was absolutely and truly horrible. There are few things I genuinely enjoyed about this film, and the end was almost painful to watch. Now, it is important to note that this 2004 film is a remake of the 1975 movie, and the 1975 movie was adapted from the novel The Stepford Wives, which was written by Ira Levin. And sadly, this tacky comedy remake, which had endless amounts of potential, was horrendous to watch and downright embarrassing. The main character in this film, Joanna, is a strong, driven woman who runs a reality television network. Surprisingly, she is fired after a man, who was on one of her shows, attempts to shoot and kill her at her own award ceremony. After this incident, her husband, Walter, and her family decide to move their family from Manhattan to the suburbs of Connecticut. Upon arrival, Joanna notices how perfect everything is, especially the woman. The wives in her new neighborhood always have their hair and makeup perfectly done, with their clothes always perfectly clean and ironed. The women in this town even work out in their baby pink high-heels and lavender seersucker day dresses. After going to a neighborhood barbeque with her husband and kids, Joanna became extremely suspicious when she saw one of the Stepford women fall down and begin to spark after violently dancing and twitching. After this incident, Joanna and her two Stepford friends seem to witness more and more strange things as the movie progresses. Joanna knows this town is hiding something dark, and she is determined to solve the mystery. While the idea of the movie sounds smart, intriguing, and creepy, the way this film was remade and executed was shameful. The producers attempted to turn an originally interesting and well respected film into a comedy, which sadly just ended up cheesy and hard to watch. Although the majority of the acting was terrible, I will admit that I believe Nicole Kidman played her character, Joanna, fairly well. Personally, the script and dialogue were some of the worst aspects of the film, and one specific example is Bette Midler's role. Midler played Bobbie, one of Joanna's new Stepford best friends, and many of the jokes she made were tacky and the acting seemed as if she were a 40-something-year-old mom trying too hard to act cool around her daughter's friends. To be blunt, Midler's acting and script seemed far too forced and ended up being cringe-worthy. This film and the overall plot and idea is so clearly not meant to be a comedy. The original film, produced in 1975, is known to be unsettling and thrilling, as the idea behind the movie is extremely creative and not too unrealistic to still be considered creepy. The issues presented in the 2004 movie are just as prevalent today as they were in 1975, when the first film was adapted. This movie deals with the roles and expectations of women in one's household, and to turn a film that has the potential to be impactful into a comedy is a very slippery slope. The remake also replaced many good aspects of the original film with less-powerful ones. For example, in the original 1975 film, the wives of the Stepford men were murdered and then replaced with robots. But, in the 2004 film, the women's brains were just altered by having microchips in them. This does not make complete sense given their bodies could be physically changed with a remote at any given moment, but if the chips were removed or destroyed, they went completely back to normal. How could one of the wife's bodies be physically changed with only a microchip in their brain? This to me is a major plot hole. Personally, in my opinion, the story is far more powerful when the wives are murdered (like the 1975 film) by their husbands and then are replaced by robots, rather than just being brainwashed by a microchip. Overall, the 2004 version of The Stepford Wives was more than underwhelming; it was awful. Yes, I think Nicole Kidman did the best she could have done under the given circumstances, but that is the only positive thing I could take away from this movie. The acting was bad, the dialogue was cringe-worthy, and the plot was weak and inconsistent at times. I would most definitely not recommend watching this film, as it will be an enormous waste of your time.

The first time I watched this movie I thought it was a cheesy movie with big name actors. I hated the characters and found it to be too unbelievable even for a fictionalized movie. I was annoyed by it and thought the storyline had potential, but just fell flat. However, the second time I watched it, I realized a lot of subtle things that I missed the first time around. Johanna developed TV shows that destroyed people's marriages and ruined particularly the men's lives when their wives would choose the hunks over their spouse. Stepford was just like that, but for men to have the upper hand. The men had the power over the women in a 50's TV show-like community. Johanna did not care about the men's lives that she ruined or even about how she was playing the role of God in people's marriages. Stepford was like her being in one of her shows. It was like a parallel universe. I noticed the character development of how Johanna really tried to fix her marriage and cared for her husband over being in control, which was different from Claire who couldn't stand not being in control that she changed the mindset of everyone in Stepford. If you hated this movie, give it a second watch. There will be a lot of things that you may have missed.

a film for the fans of actors. that is the only good thing who could describe a remake who seems be illustration of its title. because it has not an exactly genre. because the first part is decent and the second could be defined as catastrophe. because the basic questions remains - why good actors are used for a superficial script ? because the final scenes are the worst idea illustration from a director who is far to be one from another. sure, each actor saves his character in personal manner. against the script and director. but the holes in story, the impression of improvisation, the desire to impress and amuse using strange ways are the bad points of a film with good potential. so, only for the fans.

Frank Oz's remake of The Stepford Wives is a convoluted, misguided film, one that has a great idea but can't separate itself from it even at arm's length to show the audience why the idea is so great. It's a film that was ostensibly built off of the love for a premise but burdened by an inability to communicate that premise's ideas and thematic relevance to the audience. As a result, we get a ninety-three minute affair with unlikable characters, lackluster jokes, and a film that seems to be completely robbed of its social commentary.We focus on Joanna Eberhart (Nicole Kidman), a lanky, corporate woman who runs a successful Television network; we open on her pitching a series of shameful, dehumanizing reality TV shows that involve married couples making the decision to either stay with their husband or leave them for the hunks or goddesses they've acquainted themselves with over a lavish retreat. When one of the cuckolded husbands takes a gun to Joanna in the middle of her pitch, she carelessly moves on to trying to pitch a show to her boss about forgiving the shooter and helping the newly destroyed couple's marriage situation. This opening scene is about as pointless as they come, telling us very little about Joanna other than there's no real reason to care about her or sympathize with her.When Joanna's controversial pitches result in her getting fired, Joanna's husband Walter (Matthew Broderick) suggests they move to the quiet haven of Stepford, Connecticut. Stepford is a plastic village, filled with mansions, perfectly trimmed shrubbery, and the appearance of perfection so pristine that any gated community would be jealous. Upon moving there, Joanna spots a cloying and disturbing "perfectness" to the females of Stepford, who operate with a coldness but immaculate precision (one of these females is Faith Hill, who, sadly, has no character and no real significance here). She quickly befriends the sassy Bobbie (Bette Midler) and the effeminate Roger (Roger Bart) in efforts to see through the women of Stepford, especially the maniacal Claire (Glenn Close), who runs the community and maintains its level of obsessive perfectness.The Stepford Wives' immediately problem is it simply doesn't know what the hell it wants to say about men and women in society, gender roles, the male perception of females, vice-versa, or really anything. It simply exists to show a gaggle of unlikable, affluent characters complain at one another (the repetitive arguments between Joanna and Walter wore me down almost as quickly as the entire film itself), and without the presence or significance of social commentary, this film quickly becomes little else than an empty candy wrapper.The original Stepford Wives novel, written by Ira Levin, concerned the impact submissive, obeying housewives had on a community and really peeled back layers of gender relations to show how men really like their women in society with science-fiction twists. The film adaptation, directed by Levin as well, drifted from the science-fiction genre into the horror genre, another passable approach to the story, which led to its cult status amongst horror fans. Oz and screenwriter Paul Rudnick's attempt to bring comedy into the mix, however, feels like a cheap ploy being that the film doesn't have any of its satirical elements in place nor anything meaningful to say about the relationship between men and women in society.The cast here is also wasted, as Kidman's incredibly serious demeanor - which throws off any kind of likability for her character - becomes grating when you realize it's as if she was put in this film only to argue with everyone around her. Broderick is given a thoroughly lame character, as are most of the male actors here because they're not only robbed of personality but they're given the depressingly shallow male roles which perceive women as nothing more than nagging shrews. Finally, as stated, Faith Hill is criminally shortchanged here, as so much time is given to Glenn Close and Kidman it's a wonder why the casting department went through the trouble and the added expense to get a talented personality they weren't going to utilize.Frank Oz's The Stepford Wives is a curious comedic failure, robbed of almost any and all wit with its commendable, picture-perfect set design being its only commendable asset. The supermarket settings are meticulously rendered to give the impression that not a carton of eggs is uneven or a gallon of milk is crooked. If only the film's screen writing had the same kind of explicit order and gave the appearance of something that was checked multiple times before it was allowed to pass.Starring: Nicole Kidman, Matthew Broderick, Bette Midler, Roger Bart, Glenn Close, Christopher Walkin, and Faith Hill. Directed by: Frank Oz.