 The question: Is the new version of the 1975 movie The Stepford Wives better than the original? The critics provide different answers. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times observes that "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." Jack Mathews in the New York Daily News praises writer Paul Rudnick for turning the "dated" original "into a broad, feverishly fey parody" containing "some of the year's sharpest comic dialogue." But Stephen Hunter in the Washington Post comments that the remake "shows the danger of taking the story out of the '70s but not taking the '70s out of the story." And Geoff Pevere in the Toronto Star writes similarly: "Now remade as a startlingly unfunny $90-million comedy with a jaw-droppingly incoherent happy ending, the reborn Stepford Wives reveals nothing of its new moment." |
