Review of The Stepford Wives (2004) by Sara B — 09 Nov 2008

Oh, thank heavens the laughs are there.

For a film about superficiality, The Stepford Wives is an embarassingly hollow satire, too busy lining up jokey set-pieces and letting one-joke characters interact.

Fortunately, the pace is very well set up. I was never truly bored with how things turned out, and the gags drop at a lightning pace. The dialogue is mostly enjoyable, and of course, the cast's immensely charming performances DO help a lot.

But yet, it's not hard to see the screenplay is really sloppy in places-- the incoherences annoy a bit, particularly during the finale. Still, there is quite some fun to be had... and I have nothing left to say about it. It's bubbly, lightweight parodying that's worth seeing once, but not much else than that.