: The Stepford Wives
I’ve never seen the original so I can’t really compare, but I understand that version was more of a horror emphasis, while this one is a comedy. That’s a brilliant idea because remaking a film with such a well-known twist (“Oooh, the wives are robots!”) would have just been silly. This film is definitely funny and very entertaining, but unfortunately all the fun’s before the main character finds out the wives are robots; it all goes downhill once she does. It’s like before that the humor is a subtle and interesting in-joke between the film’s producers and us, the audience; but once she knows the women are robots, all the fun’s gone. The ending is forced, predictable, and doesn’t make much logical sense (not that there’s much logic in the story anyway). The robots themselves are never really explained — it was very unclear whether the women were really robots or humans with mind-control chips added. If the latter, the ending made some sense when they were restored to normality. But then why have robots sparking and going into “repeating record” mode? Humans don’t spark, even those with a few implants in their head. Logic aside, the film’s silly fun.
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