The Stepford Wives
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 11, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
17
Negative:
14
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80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Contrary to recent rumors that it was a dud, 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 (Walken's waxy menace is once again played for laughs), is a gas. Read full review
80
NewsweekCathleen McGuigan
Glenn Close, Bette Midler and Roger Bart (who plays one half of a gay couple slated for Stepfordizing) are hilarious, and even Nicole Kidman flashes comedic gifts not seen since "To Die For." Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
It's hilarious -- and on purpose, too. This is the first satisfying adult summer comedy set in New England to come out of Hollywood since "The Witches of Eastwick" in 1987. Read full review
75
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
The star of this overachieving trifle is not Kidman, it's Paul Rudnick. The New York playwright and screenwriter ("In & Out") has taken a pair of dated watermarks from the '70s - Ira Levin's horror novel and its faithful 1975 movie adaptation - and turned them into a broad, feverishly fey parody. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger 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. Read full review
70
SlateDavid Edelstein
I had a fabulous time. Well, I did once I accepted that it was a campfest--a great Provincetown drag show of The Stepford Wives. Read full review
70
TimeRichard Corliss
A film full of smart laughs. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike 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. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Trying to be more antic and cuttingly funny, it misses the premise's shivery tension. The story loses us at precisely the moment it should put us in the vise. Read full review
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